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Originally Posted by KgZ  True, but here is what I think.
Production can only get you so far. If your music has a boring melody with a generic chord progression, it's only going to be decent, at best. The jump from a good song to a great song is all based upon the melody and chords. |
I attended a few seminars in the summer. One was hosted by a panel of local writers, who included Jim Vallance (Bryan Adam's guy). They were talking about arrangement and production, and how Heaven has been done a million and one times. Out of it, he sound something very simple yet incredibly profound:
"If people can hum a song, or pick up a guitar and start singing it in their living room, then you have a hit song."