LL- Write Your Own Rock Songs

Think of a hook based on your title. Play around with your title ideas and various melodies to see if you can come up with anything particularly catchy. Once you do, that can serve as your hook, the part of the song that sticks in your listeners’ heads and stays there because it’s pithy and memorable.

• A quick rule of thumb for determining a hook’s catchiness: if a lyrical or melodic phrase sticks in your head, it will probably stick in other people’s heads.
• A variation of the title of the Rolling Stones’ song “Paint It Black,” for instance, serves as part of the hook: “I see a red door and I want it painted black.”