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How to Write a Hit Pop-Punk Song

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How to Write a Hit Pop-Punk Song

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Study the hits of added pop punk bands to get an assumption for the form of hit pop punk songs. Listen to singles by artists after Green Day, Blink-182, Good Charlotte, Sum 41 and others. Take comment of the dulcet approaches and romantic area affair in hit singles by these artists.

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Write the lyrics to your pop punk song. Typical thematic rudiments in hit pop punk songs carry agitation (Green Day’s “Basketcase”), ascendant up (Blink-182’s “What’s My Age Again?”), anarchism (Sum 41’s “Fat Lip”) and adoration (New Found Glory’s “Hit or Miss.”) Be aboveboard to yourself, as pop punk fans covet candidness in artists.

3

Write artless triad progressions. A archetypal triad growth heard in hit pop punk songs is I-V-vi-IV, which is C-G-Am-F in C major. This growth appears in hit songs by Blink-182, after “Dammit” and “Feeling This.”

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Write catchy melodies to your lyrics. A hit pop punk air wants to be catchy and cushy to chant the gamut of to. Make the melodies in your air artless and hooky, such as in the All-American Rejects’ “Gives You Hell” or Good Charlotte’s “Motivation Proclamation.”

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Choose a cadence for your song. Pop punk hits carry anthems after Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” and ballads after Simple Plan’s “Welcome To My Life.” Tailor your cadence to fit the ambiance of the song, but don’t go too slow, as any force not consistent adjudge your air to be pop punk.

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Arrange the air in a pop format. For example, your pop punk air agreement can be: verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus. Keep the gamut of the air along to about 3 to 3 1/2 minutes.

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