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Scissors and glue are a songwriter’s secret weapon
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11 December 2023
Scissors and glue are a songwriter’s secret weapon
There’s a technique for writing songs that doesn’t involve thinking up your own lyrics, but cutting and pasting them from books, magazines and poems. It’s called the cut-up method.

Find out more in:
100 Things to Know About Music

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