LEGO VERSUS SILLY PUTTY

SO YOU’RE FOOLING around on your guitar, and out of the blue comes that moment all songwriters live for but seldom experience: a burst of inspiration. You hit upon a musical idea and instantly feel in your bones that there’s a song just waiting to be born. The hours pass like minutes as you magically craft an entire new song.

Well… almost. Inevitably, you come to realize that you’re missing a section or two. Unfortunately, the initial, glorious epiphany has faded, and you’re now faced with the hard work of writing. While any section could be missing, in my experience this challenge often involves creating an intro and/or a bridge section. For that reason, we’ll focus on those two sections in this lesson.

So how does one create an intro or bridge out of thin air? I have