Erick Rudiak. Songwriter. Singer. Human.

Another first-class trip on the dare-I-say-annual Southern Yosemite Mountain Guides' High Sierra Singer Songwriter Adventure. Plenty of good songwriting exercises this year:

• Starting a song with a question (e.g. "Who did you think you are?")
  
• Writing a rebuttal to another song
  
• Writing a song in an hour (I got lucky with I Don't Watch The News last year)
  
• Writing a song without a chorus
  

I find something extremely appealing about that last idea. The chorus is, of course, where you get to drive the hook home and shouldn't generally be omitted without an extremely good reason. For whatever reason, I found myself omitting it this year anyway: I was writing story songs and going back to the same chorus repeatedly just didn't advance the story the way I needed. That means no radio airplay in this song's future, but maybe it'll become a MNO iPod anthem.

Practice Divorce

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