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#2: Songwriting Breaking the loop

How often have you sat down at your studio desk to start a new track, come up with a great 4 or 8-bar loop and then… got completely stuck as to where to go next?

It happens a lot more often than you'd think, with that initial burst of creativity lasting only for as long as it takes you to complete one short section of your song. It's easy to get so lost in the groove as your initial idea cycles round endlessly, that your brain then flat-out refuses to entertain the concept that it might turn into anything else!

So in this month's songwriting process column, we thought we'd turn the spotlight on this common issue, hopefully giving you a few useful

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