This blog post is a sample chapter from the new Berklee Music "Songwriting Handbook", which is free to download here.
In this guest post, Professor Jimmy Kachulis goes over the anatomy of writing a hit song. Enjoy!
How to Write a Hit Song
From the Online Course Songwriting: Writing Hit Songs
How do they do it? Why does a Beatles or a Michael Jackson song capture a listener’s attention the way they do? What is their secret, what’s the formula? If all of us songwriters had the answers to these questions, we…
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