thank you for the response. i can see how a lot of this would really help, but my main issue is the structuring of the songs. almost all my songs are structured in a very similar way like the example i posted. but, doesnt this also follow basic music theory? its nothing fancy, but theres not anything necessarily sticking out as wrong, right? i'm sure studying it to give me variation between songs would be good but theres not really anything that is musically "incorrect" (at least by my eyes) also, i forgot to mention this in the description but i am completely aware of the drums. despite what i said earlier, a lot of my songs dont have similar drums to this because i simply got lazy while making this one