Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
I heard someone say at a songwriting event... might have been our very own David Snyder .. that Nashville was looking for the short songs again. Many writers have a hard time writing anything complete, that's less than 2:30 total. It takes much thought and a bit of expertise to tell a story in that time length.


This gives me hope! As a jingle writer about 90% of what I write has to be in 30 seconds, not just the tag, the WHOLE concept! On on more rare occasions I get 60 seconds and I even end up putting in a bridge and or key change! I thought I was in this terrible habit of a verse being 30 seconds, chorus 30 seconds...you get the idea. Maybe I can use that to my advantage!

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BUT.... if you still have any 45's from the 60's.... pull them out and look at the song lengths.... many of them were in that magical 2:30 to 2:45 area and varied by only a few seconds one way of the other.... and I'm talking about the big #1 hits we all (us older folks anyway) grew up listening to on the radio. Almost nothing back then ran much past 3 minutes and when Hey Jude came out running over 7 minutes, that was a wall breaker.


Great to know! It's so cool to hear these observations. Thanks!

Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.