Color The Chorus and Songs Shine

Color the chorus and your will create a much stronger song. Pat Pattison is the first person I heard using this term. A chorus should move the song each time it comes around. This is one of the great songwriting ideas or songwriting secrets that you can learn.

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Make each time a listener hears a chorus they receive a deeper and more meaningful experience. Because the chorus usually remains the same it is the verse or bridge before it that change what it means. This applies to the different kinds of song structure.

The songwriting techniques to master here are to find ways to move the emotional content and descriptions to a deeper and more specific level. For example here is the word car taken to more specific levels - car> new> sports> small> green> Chev> corvette.

If you talked about your spouse leaving you in the first verse, talk about how it has affected you or the family or the pet dog in the second verse. Perhaps you can describe how it makes you or others feel. Your song will be more interesting if the content has sectional differences.

Describe an event in the first verse and how you feel about it or propose a solution in the second verse. Look at your verse and see the theme you are talking about. Then try to expand it.

Pre-plan the development of the story line in your song. Make sure your song can accept the coloring you are planning to do.

Sit down and listen to some of the time tested great songs and hear how they have done it. Spend some time listening to Beatles songs. They were masters at this and most other things. You will be amazed because all great songwriters do this.