From the course: 20 Unofficial Rules of Songwriting

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Rule #7: Putting the hook at the end of your chorus gives it extra punch

Rule #7: Putting the hook at the end of your chorus gives it extra punch

From the course: 20 Unofficial Rules of Songwriting

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Rule #7: Putting the hook at the end of your chorus gives it extra punch

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- "Rule #7, Putting the Hook at the End of Your Chorus "Gives It Extra Punch." What I'm talking about here is the way that you build up to and reveal your hook. There's sort of this idea of tension and release that makes it more dramatic. It's kind of like building up to the punchline of a joke. Now often times, you will also have your hook at the top of the chorus, but that doesn't mean you can't also put it at the end of the chorus too. Sometimes the hook will be both at the beginning and at the end of your chorus. In our song, "A Little Bit," the last phrase of our chorus is the hook, and the reason we put it there is it was kind of a rethinking of the song's message. It was like a little crack in the door when the singer all along is saying, "I'm out of this. "I'm not interested in love anymore." And then the last line of our chorus is "Except just a little bit." And that's what made it sort of the main message of the song, and we put it at the end of the chorus because it landed…

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