How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Meter
Meter is the invisible traffic cop of rhythm. It tells beats where to stand, when to march, and when to moonwalk. You can write songs t...
How to Write Songs About Legends
You want a song that makes someone believe ancient fires still burn or that a small town rumor lives forever. You want to write about a...
How to Write Songs About Cities
Cities are messy, loud, beautiful, ridiculous, and brutal in equal measure. That makes them perfect songwriting fuel. You can write a l...
How to Write Songs About Interaction
You want a song that sounds like two people in a room, a crowd yelling back, or the notification tone that ruined your insomnia. Songs ...
How to Write Songs About Home
Home is not a place only. Home is a mood. Home is a burnt spoon in a drawer. Home is the couch that remembers your shape. Songs about h...
How to Write Songs About Aging
Want to write a song about getting older without sounding preachy or like a Hallmark card on repeat? Good. This guide brutally explains...
How to Write Songs About Talk
You want a song that feels like eavesdropping on the best conversation of your life. You want lines that sound like a real text thread....
How to Write Songs About Success
So you made it or you think you will make it. Either way you want a song that sounds like a trophy but also feels like something your b...
How to Write Songs About Motion
You want motion, not just a pretty song about motion. You want listeners to feel feet tapping, windows rolling down, stomachs dropping ...
How to Write Songs About Sound
You want to write a song where the voice is not only singing about love or loss but is also pointing a spotlight at the noise, the whis...