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Rosana S's avatar

I enjoy reading these bits of knowledge about song writing. When you look at it, it's very similar to writing and poetry, I feel...The verse refrain - I actually know so little about song writing that I was no wiser even with your very clear explanation! I like your short takes idea though, nice and brief way for someone to get one takeaway or learn one thing from your article. Have you found more people engage with the shorter pieces? I wouldn't mind a bit more geeky detail but that's just me. This format probably works for the short attention span crowd.

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Karl Straub's avatar

I keep these short mainly because I’m taking so much time on the other writing that it doesn’t make sense for me to put even more time into these.

However! It’s very very good when you have questions like this because I can file them away and then address them in a later post. I’ll make a note of this verse refrain question and get into it more later.

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Rosana S's avatar

ah, that makes total and complete sense. I'm myself trying to figure out how to spend less time on the essays as I have loads of other stuff to be getting on with so that's very sensible. Good, I'll keep asking questions in that case if I have them!

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Karl Straub's avatar

Yes, please do!

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