There's a moment in a lot of pop songs where something shifts and you feel it before you understand it. The chorus comes back one more time, but it sounds bigger, brighter, almost urgent in a way it ...

In the final chorus, I want to create a feeling of stepping up a level. So, I raised the whole thing by a semitone. When I ...

Last time, we covered borrowed chords. The idea is to borrow just one chord from outside the key to add a touch of poignancy.Borrowed chords are about "borrowing one from outside, without changing the ...