Posts by Toni Mercia
Salsa Songwriting Advice
You want a salsa song that people remember by the time they hit the second coro. You want dancers to lock eyes and spin as if the music...
Bob Hurwitz, President at Nonesuch Contact Details
As a musician, getting in touch with industry professionals like Bob Hurwitz, President at Nonesuch, can be a game-changer for your car...
How to Write a Song About Negotiation
You can make bargaining sound sexy. You can turn a tense meeting, a landlord fight, a label conversation, or a breakup debate into a ci...
How To Write Song Lyrics Book
Writing a song lyrics book isn’t just about scribbling down a few catchy rhymes on a napkin, it’s about embarking on an epic, fun-fille...
How to Write Drumfunk Songs
Drumfunk is the kind of rhythm that makes your spine remember a beat it never met. It is messy in a perfect way. Drumfunk is about micr...
How To Compose Music On Computer
You are about to learn how to make music on a computer without losing your soul to plugins or pretending autotune is creativity. This i...
How to Write Songs About Narrative
You want to tell a story that hits like a movie trailer in three minutes. You want characters the listener remembers, a scene that smel...
How to Write Rebetiko Songs
You want grit, salt, and a melody that smells of sea and cigarettes. You want a song the bartender will nod at and the taxi driver will...
How to Write Dark Psytrance Lyrics
Want lyrics that feel like a ritual and hit like a bass drop? Dark psytrance lyrics are not pop poems. They are incantations, texture m...
How to Write Lyrics About Spoken Word
So you fell in love with someone yelling softly into a mic and you want that feeling in a song. You want the grit of a slam poem and th...