Are you a well-respected, but commercially unviable eighties alternative band? Follow these four EZ steps, and you will craft a crossover song with radio-friendly appeal!
How to write a hit rock song:
1. Establish a clean, hooky guitar riff.
2. Don't veer too far from a I IV V progression (if minor key, give nice relative major lift in there somewhere).
3. Follow a basic structure of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, verse chorus.
4. Write lyrics that youth will embrace as lovelorn romance, and adults will appreciate as bitter loss of love.
See also WITH OR WITHOUT YOU and EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE.
