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"I have been giving hit record analysis exercises to my students for years, but the level of depth in a single Hit Songs Deconstructed report is a full semester’s worth of information. My entire thought process as a producer, an engineer, a musician, and a songwriter are fleshed out in the pages of the HSD reports."
"Prince" Charles Alexander
Grammy-winning, multi-platinum producer, audio engineer, and recording artist and professor, Music Production and Engineering, Berklee College of Music
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"The depth, detail and level of care that Hit Songs Deconstructed exercises in their song analysis is something I want my students to aspire to. I am using their analysis techniques as a benchmark for them to apply when analyzing songs and their compositional analytics to keep them in tune with what’s happening now."
Chris Sampson
Founding Director of Popular Music Program
USC Thornton School of Music
Director of Popular Music Pedagogy
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"Hit Songs Deconstructed is a great teaching tool and an extremely valuable resource for my songwriting students. We’ve made it an integral part of the songwriting curriculum at MTSU. I’m thrilled to say that Middle Tennessee State University is at the forefront of songwriting education as a result of this partnership."
Odie Blackmon
Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Commercial Songwriting Concentration for the Recording Industry Program,
Middle Tennessee State University
Lecturer, Music at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music
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“Hit Songs Deconstructed is an integral resource used in our teaching of popular music analysis on both the Popular Music Performance and Popular Music Performance/Production BA (Hons) degree courses here at Solent University.”
Esther Keappock
Senior Lecturer, Popular Music Performance
at Solent University, Southampton UK
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"As a songwriter and educator, I am truly impressed with the scientific approach that HSD has employed in the forensic breakdown of the process of writing Hit Songs. The results of this investigation have provided me with a unique insight into the creation of these works.”
Carl Corcoran
Songwriter/Broadcaster/Industry Consultant/Director of MA Songwriting, Irish World Academy University of Limerick
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“Hit Songs Deconstructed approach's is a very handy tool and gives the students an extra in-depth view into the structure, melody build up, the way of lyric writing and production techniques that is/are used in today’s chart-topping hit songs.
Tjeerd van Zanen
Professor, Songwriting & Music Production, Tjeerd van Zanen Codarts University of the Arts
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“Hit Songs Deconstructed is a game changer for teaching up and coming producers. Whether you want to work with the current trends or against them HSD is a powerful tool in music production strategy.”
Dean Nelson
Director of Music Production, Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology
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"Hit Songs Deconstructed" is an astonishingly thorough look at contemporary hits. The site takes a comprehensive look at both lyrics and music, and is an extraordinary tool for anyone interested in understanding and absorbing what makes commercial songs successful.”
Deanna Walker
Director of the Blair Songwriting Program, Vanderbilt University
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“We’ve had rave reviews from students and educators about Hit Songs Deconstructed.”
Stephanie Maatta Smith, PhD
Director of Library Services, Full Sail University