How to Write Songs
How to Write Art Pop Songs
You want a song that sounds like a gallery opening with a dance floor inside. Art pop sits between high concept and earworm. It flirts ...
How to Write Roots Rock Songs
You want a song that smells like a worn leather jacket, a late night diner, and a highway mile marker with a story scratched into it. R...
How to Write Electroacoustic Improvisation Songs
This is for artists who like noise, nuance, and the weird third thing between a piano and a circuit board. Electroacoustic improvisatio...
How to Write Celtic Rock Songs
You want a song that smells like peat smoke and chain reacts into a mosh pit. You want fiddles to cry and a guitar to punch back. You w...
How to Write Cowpunk/Country-Punk Songs
Cowpunk, also known as country-punk, is a subgenre of punk rock that emerged in the 1980s. It combines the energy and attitude of punk ...
How to Write Gothabilly Songs
You want songs that smell like incense, grease, and midnight drive ins. You want a chorus that crawls out of a grave but still makes pe...
How to Write Filk Songs
Filk songs are the unofficial soundtrack of fandom. They are the goofy campfire anthems, the sob stories about lost starships, and the ...
How to Write Adult Standards Songs
You want a song people will hum by the elevator and play slow at a wedding. Adult standards are the kind of songs that make strangers s...
How to Write Religious Hip Hop Songs
You want bars that preach and beats that move feet. You want lyrics that are honest and not cheesy. You want a flow that feels like tes...
How to Write Progressive Psytrance Songs
You want a track that hypnotizes the floor without sounding like every other alien rave playlist. Progressive psytrance is the slow bur...