Originally Posted by Steve Altonian
Well.........ALL the songs above had a "hook"......If you have no Chorus you better have a killer hook.....

BTW....If you use a Chorus it better have a killer hook....

In other words, something to make it memorable, & to make it stand apart from the rest.....

Personally, I ALWAYS write from the hook.....Which is generally for me in the Chorus....But I do have a great CCM song with no chorus....Practically all of my songs have a chorus....

Bottom line is you need to have a great "hook" in your song, no matter where you place it......


I totally agree, if your purpose is to get cuts. Not all writers write for that purpose. I do both kinds of writing. For my commercial stuff, I will try to sink as many hooks in a song as I can. One killer hook is fine, but often that isn't even enough. You are often competing with multi-hook songs for cuts so EVERYTHING has to be there.

IMHO, you need all three kinds of hooks -- lyrical hooks, melodic hooks, and production hooks (the first two being the responsibility of the songwriter). You have to have more hooks stuck in that baby than pinhead has pins stuck in his head.

Fisherman hook fish; songwriters fish for hooks

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