How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Arrangement
Arrangement is the secret movie director of your song. Lyrics and melody are the actors. Arrangement is the lighting, camera angles, wa...
How to Write Songs About Expression
You want to write a song that actually feels like a person, not a press release for feelings. Songs about expression are the ones that ...
How to Write Songs About Fragility
You want vulnerability that sounds fierce not fragile. You want songs that make the listener feel seen instead of second hand embarrass...
How to Write Songs About Action
You want the listener to feel like the camera is in their chest. You want kinetic verbs, percussion that hits like footsteps, melodies ...
How to Write Songs About Form
You want a song that is about form and uses form as the point. You want structure to be the theme instead of something boring that sits...
How to Write Songs About Youth
You want songs that feel like a mixtape burned in the backseat of a first car. You want lines that nail the ache, the stupid bravery, a...
How to Write Songs About Themes
Theme is the secret sauce that turns a line you scribbled on a napkin into a song people feel in their bones. If you want songs that la...
How to Write Songs About Chorus
You want the chorus to hit like a mic drop. Whether you mean the chorus as the emotional center of the song or you want to write a song...
How to Write Songs About Identity crisis
You are not the only one who has googled themselves at 2 a.m. Identity crises are the secret fuel of great music. They make people paus...
How to Write Songs About Equality
You want your song to do something real. You want people to listen, feel, and then act or at least remember. Songs about equality can c...