How to Write Songs About Life Situations
How to Write a Song About Loyalty
You want a song that makes people stand by you even if you once stole their fries. Loyalty is messy, heroic, petty, quiet, dramatic, an...
How to Write a Song About Grief And Loss
You want to put a feeling that feels impossible into ten lines and a melody. You want the person who is raw with missing to hear a line...
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 Captivity And Imprisonment
You want a song that feels like a cell opening or slamming shut. You want lines that make the listener taste metal, feel the stretch of...
How to Write a Song About Social Justice
You want your music to matter. You want to speak for change without sounding like a lecture. You want a chorus that people can sing at ...
How to Write a Song About Personal Branding
You want a song that sounds like you and sells who you are without sounding like an ad. Yes you. The one who posts late night demos, an...
How to Write a Song About Revolution
You want a song people chant in the street. You want a line that gets stuck in a placard. You want a chorus that sounds like a crowd al...
How to Write a Song About Non-Fiction Writing
You want a song that makes people care about facts. You want lines that feel honest and funny and human. You want a chorus that turns a...
How to Write a Song About Getting Married
You want a song that makes the groom cry, the aunt dance, and the DJ add it to the part two playlist. You want lines that slip into vow...
How to Write a Song About Concerts And Live Music
You want a song that smells like sweaty floorboards and glitter and sounds like everyone singing one line at once. You want the listene...