How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Silence
Silence is not empty. Silence is full of everything you were too scared to say. If you want to write a song that makes a room lean in, ...
How to Write Songs About Contrast
Contrast is the secret sauce that makes songs feel alive. If your music is a meal, contrast is the hot sauce that wakes up the palate. ...
How to Write Songs About Past vs. Future
Want to write a song that slaps and actually means something? Great. You are about to explore the easiest high concept in songwriting a...
How to Write Songs About Inaction
You want to write a song that makes doing nothing feel like a plot twist. Songs about inaction are quietly violent. They trap a listene...
How to Write Songs About Forbidden love
Forbidden love is the candy you are not allowed to eat in public. It tastes dangerous, it blooms in secret, and it makes listeners sink...
How to Write Songs About Poetry
Poetry and songs are cousins who get drunk at family reunions and trade lines until someone starts crying. If you love the punch of a g...
How to Write Songs About Power
You want a song that makes the room lean forward. You want a chorus that feels like someone turning the lights on. You want verses that...
How to Write Songs About Universe
You want to write a song that makes people look up from their phones and feel the size of everything while still relating to their mess...
How to Write Songs About Balance
You want a song that nails the feeling of walking a tightrope while texting your ex. Balance is the emotional and sonic sweet spot wher...
How to Write Songs About Pause
You want your song to make silence feel like a character. You want the listener to notice the space between notes as much as the notes ...