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  • A final chorus can use the same chords, melody, lyrics, and tempo as the first chorus and somehow feel twice as large. That difference rarely comes from one spectacular production trick. More often, the producer has spent the entire song controlling what the listener hears, and just as importantly, what…

  • A modern pop song can sound remarkably simple from the outside. There is a lead vocal, a beat, some chords, a bass line, and perhaps a few sounds that seem to appear around the edges. Open the production session behind that same song, however, and the apparent simplicity may be…