How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Imagination
You want a song that smells like daydreams and tastes like the future. You want lyrics that take a listener out of the subway and into ...
How to Write Songs About Anger
You want a song that feels like a packed room yelling back at your feelings. You want language that stings and melody that carries teet...
How to Write Songs About Darkness
You want a song that feels like walking into a room and finding the light switched off on purpose. You want the listener to feel the ch...
How to Write Songs About Speech
You want to turn talking into music that sticks. You want the crackle of a voicemail to feel like a beat. You want an argument to sound...
How to Write Songs About Treaty
You want a song that makes people feel the weight of paper and the heat of history. You want a chorus that can be sung into a crowd or ...
How to Write Songs About Teamwork
You want a song that turns a ragtag group into a chantable army. Whether you are writing for a sports team, a corporate campaign, a mus...
How to Write Songs About Endurance
You want a song that feels like a slow burn and then hits like a fist full of sunlight. Songs about endurance are not about winning tro...
How to Write Songs About Heritage
You want a song about your roots or someone else’s roots that actually matters. You want to avoid sounding like a college paper or a to...
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 Assessment
Assessment is boring until you turn it into a savage earworm. You know that feeling when your stomach drops during an exam or when your...