Suno Tension

In all the controversy about making, writing, producing songs with Suno, there’s an interesting type of tension that makes it worth experimenting with.

When you upload your acoustic/vocal demo, it’s just that, a demo.

Suno can turn it into any style or genre you want.

80’s new wave…that sounds pretty awesome.

Acoustic campfire vibes...there we go, that feels pretty good

Make more of a dance hit…boom, dance hit

But with more guitars...woah that sounds cool too

With a prompt you can make your song sound pretty decent in any genre. And it’s really fun to play around with it.

But then comes the tension…what do you want? You can have any style so what style are you going to roll with and put your name on?

That’s the hard part. With unlimited options it’s still scary to choose.

Suno will either scatter your vision or demand that you find it. You choose.

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Pop Shivers

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Even though pop music uses many similar chords and structures, sometimes it still gives pop shivers…when moving to a certain chord hits just right, with just the right voicing, with just the right chord preceding it, with just the right melody over it.

The truth is it’s probably a chord progression we’ve all heard thousands of times before. But sometimes it’s special.

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Law Of Small Numbers

When you only have three fans you need 100% of your fans to bring a friend just to have six people at the next show. And that’s a huge accomplishment but it’s still only six people in the room. It still doesn’t feel great and there’s no money in a six person draw.

That’s why building a fan base is hard. The law of small numbers.

The more fans you have there can be major growth even while it’s a smaller percentage telling their friends. (i.e. If you have five hundred fans and only twenty percent bring a friend next time, that’s six hundred people. That’s a jump.)

So yes. The beginning is the hardest part.

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Track Walkers

There are three old people who walk the track in the mornings at the community center by my house.

They’re not all quite the same age. They don’t all have the same stride. They all have different resting heart rates and ailments and interests.

And I’m sure each of their optimum walking paces are different too.

But they walk together anyway.

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"And I...

Will always love you”

The AND is really important to the I…a crucial part in making that chorus legendary.

It wouldn’t be the same without the pickup.

Maybe you don’t need a new chorus. Maybe it just needs to be setup better.

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Dramatic Effect

We probably use it more when we shouldn’t and less when we should.

»» For example…

When the show doesn’t go how you wanted it to go, there’s often plenty of (unnecessary) dramatic effect afterwards when rehashing it.

While the show itself probably could have used some more dramatic effect.

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