How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
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 Stop
You want the moment in the song where everything halts and the listener feels it in their bones. Whether your song is about stopping a ...
How to Write Songs About Allies
You want to write a song that honors someone who stands up for others. You want it to feel authentic. You want it to avoid sounding lik...
How to Write Songs About Patience
Patience is not boring. Patience is dramatic. Waiting for a text, waiting for a record label to notice you, waiting for your brain to g...
How to Write Songs About Realism
You want your song to feel true enough to bruise. You want listeners to point at the lyrics and say that is literally me or that is som...
How to Write Songs About Determination
You want a song that makes people sit up, square their shoulders, and feel like finishing something they started. A determination song ...
How to Write Songs About Theater
You want to write songs that live on a stage and hit the heart the moment the footlights find them. Theater songs do a very different j...
How to Write Songs About Technique
You want a song that teaches without sounding like a dusty lecture. You want lines that explain a bending, a sweep, a breath control tr...
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 ...
How to Write Songs About Addiction
Trigger warning: This article contains frank discussion of substance use and self harm. If you are in crisis please reach out to local ...