5Second Rule for Better Song Intros

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Learn how to instantly capture the attention of your listeners, so your songs don’t get skipped! • ►FREE Book: https://HackMusicTheory.com/Books • ►Online Courses: https://HackMusicTheory.com/Courses • ►Hack Drum Beats PDF: https://HackMusicTheory.com/Drums • ►Songwriting Producing PDF: https://HackMusicTheory.com/Bestsellers • 0:00 Hello • 1:07 Introduction • 3:22 Step 1. Parents • 4:48 Step 2. Features • 7:30 Step 3. Surprise! • 10:58 Step 4. BPM • 11:16 Step 5. Rule • 12:50 Step 6. Name • 13:31 Final Example • Which one of those song intros grabs your full attention? Both intros are cool, but it’s definitely the second intro that captures our full attention! Why? Well, because it contains a totally surprising element: a reggae rhythm sung by a choir. What genre is that? Where’s this song going next? What other surprises are waiting for me if I keep listening? After only five seconds of music, our brains are already full of questions. And we’re an incredibly inquisitive species; we need answers to those questions, and the only way to get them is to keep listening. • Now, you may be wondering why it’s so important to catch people’s attention in the first five seconds of your song. Well, there’s about 40,000 new songs being uploaded to Spotify every day, and the result of this overwhelming and never-ending stream of new music, is that a quarter of all songs get skipped in their first five seconds. That is why it’s more important now than ever before to make your music stand out from the crowd. Seriously, this is literally the first era in human history where a piece of music has needed to grab the listener’s full attention in under five seconds. And while we could have endless discussions about the negative repercussions of this change, it is the way it is and we can’t change that, so our time is far better spent thinking creatively within this new limitation. • And by the way, if you’ve seen big artists releasing new singles that have long intros where nothing much happens, and you’re wondering why they don’t have to use the 5-Second Intro Rule. Well, it’s because those artists already have loyal fanbases who will happily listen through their long intros, because they trust them. It’s all about trust. If you’re an up-and-coming artist though, you don’t have that privilege yet, so you still need to earn your listener’s trust. Once you’ve done that though, and you’ve also built yourself a loyal fanbase, then you can throw the 5-Second Intro Rule out the window, too. But until then, this rule is your best friend! • Okay, so now you’re probably thinking to yourself: How on earth do I capture the listener’s full attention in under five seconds? Well, there is arguably no better way to do that, than to create your own original never-before-heard genre. And how on earth do you do that? Well stay tuned, as we’re about to reveal all. • ►Full Script: https://HackMusicTheory.com/home/blog... • --- • ABOUT • Hack Music Theory is the fast, easy and fun way to make music. Taught by award-winning music lecturer Ray Harmony, and his protégé wife Kate. Ray has been teaching music theory for 25 years, and along the way he's made music with Serj Tankian (System Of A Down), Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), and many more! • COPYRIGHT CREDITS • © 2021 Revolution Harmony • Revolution Harmony is Ray Harmony Kate Harmony • Script all music in video by Revolution Harmony • Book promo filmed edited by Maurits Nienhuis • All stock footage courtesy of Pexels

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