How to Write Songs About Life Situations
How to Write a Song About Homesickness
Homesickness is an emotion that smells like instant noodles at 2 AM and tastes like your favorite hoodie gone cold on a dorm chair. If ...
How to Write a Song About Mourning
You want a song that honors what was lost and also feels true to you. You want language that does not sound like the same obituary ever...
How to Write a Song About Volunteer Work
You want a song that makes people want to show up and stay for the whole shift. Maybe you want to honor a cause. Maybe you volunteered ...
How to Write a Song About Circumstantial Irony
You want irony that lands like a mic drop, not a confused shrug. Songs about irony can be hilarious, devastating, or both at once. Circ...
How to Write a Song About Charity And Giving
Want to make people cry, donate, and then hum your chorus in the grocery line? Good. Writing about charity and giving is a special song...
How to Write a Song About Dance Competitions
You want a song that makes judges look up and audiences lose their minds. Maybe you are writing for a dancer who needs a killer auditio...
How to Write a Song About Beatboxing
You want a song that makes people check if a DJ snuck into the vocalist's throat. You want the beat to come from a mouth and the lyrics...
How to Write a Song About Arranging
You want a song that is smart, funny, and strangely moving about the very act of arranging music. You want listeners to nod like they j...
How to Write a Song About Hunting And Tracking
You want a song that smells like wet earth and midnight adrenaline. You want listeners to feel the scrape of boots, the hush of the tre...
How to Write a Song About Mashups
You want to write a song about mashups that is clever, catchy, and not a legal headache. You want listeners to laugh, nod, or scream in...