How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Tone
You want your song to feel like a mood in human form. You want a listener to hear the first chord and know whether they should cry, dan...
How to Write Songs About Togetherness
You want a song that makes people put down their phones and look at the person next to them like, finally, this gets us. Songs about to...
How to Write Songs About Lyric
So you want to write a song about a lyric. Good. That means you are ready to go meta and make music about music. You are not just chasi...
How to Write Songs About Activity
Want to write songs about doing things that feel as electric as a skateboard wheel hitting pavement? Good. Activity songs are the secre...
How to Write Songs About Recovery from addiction
You want the song to matter and to not blow it. You want lyrics that are honest without being exploitative. You want a chorus that hold...
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 Magic
You want a song that feels like a spell. You want lyrics that sparkle, melodies that lift the hair on the back of the neck, and a story...
How to Write Songs About Pain
Pain is a universal currency in songwriting. Everyone carries a version of it. Some people hide it under a poker face and a scented can...
How to Write Songs About Narrative
You want to tell a story that hits like a movie trailer in three minutes. You want characters the listener remembers, a scene that smel...
How to Write Songs About Method
You want to turn routines, rituals, and messy systems into songs people sing drunk at 2 a.m. Whether your subject is the scientific met...