How to Write Songs About Life Situations
How to Write a Song About Role Models
You want to write a song that honors someone who shaped you without sounding like a school assembly tribute. You want lines that sting,...
How to Write a Song About Adoption
You want a song that matters. You want it to feel truthful, not exploitative. You want a hook that sticks and verses that make listener...
How to Write a Song About Immigration
You want your song to hit like truth and not like a charity commercial. You want listeners to feel someone else walking in their shoes ...
How to Write a Song About Making New Friends
You want a song that makes strangers feel like old friends right away. You want a hook that sounds like someone waved and said hello in...
How to Write a Song About Hunting And Fishing
You want a song that smells like diesel, coffee, and wet waders but still makes people cry in pickup trucks and on tailgates. Whether y...
How to Write a Song About Physical Fitness
You want a song that makes people warm up, sweat, laugh, cry, or lift heavier than they thought they could. Whether you are writing a g...
How to Write a Song About Betting And Wagering
You want a song that feels like a roll of the dice. You want the listener to smell cigarette smoke and cheap coffee, to feel the thrill...
How to Write a Song About Folklore
You want a song that feels older than you but sounds like you. You want the story to smell like smoke and river water and still have a ...
How to Write a Song About Solo Careers
You left a band. Maybe you got pushed. Maybe you left on purpose. Maybe you are still ghosting your ex bandmate on Instagram. Now you w...
How to Write a Song About Success And Failure
You want a song that makes people feel like you just read their diary and then high fived them. Success and failure are universal and m...