How to Write Songs
How to Write Classic Soul Songs
You want a song that hits the chest and holds the room. You want the beat to breathe and the voice to say what the heart is too tired t...
How to Write Political Hip Hop Songs
You want your music to do two things at once. Make people bob their heads and then make them think, or act, or at least feel guilt abou...
How to Write Dubtronica Songs
You want bass that makes spines rattle and space that feels like a midnight ocean. You want delays that talk back and drops that turn a...
How to Write Chutney Soca Songs
You want a heat seeking party song that makes people lose their shoes and their dignity on the road. You want melody lines that slide b...
How to Write Avant Punk Songs
You want a song that punches your gut and confuses your parents in the best possible way. Avant punk is the beautiful wreckage where pu...
How to Write Post-Grunge Songs
You want songs that feel like a bruised handshake from the 1990s but not a nostalgia cosplay. Post-grunge is the genre that took the ra...
How to Write Blackgaze Songs
If black metal and shoegaze hooked up, what would their love child sound like? That child is blackgaze. It is loud and tender. It is ab...
How to Write Palm-Wine Songs
Want to write a palm wine song that smells like a beach bar at golden hour and slaps harder than your uncle at a family roast? Good. Yo...
How to Write Soft Rock Songs
Soft rock is a subgenre of rock music that is characterized by its mellow sound, soothing melodies, and often, romantic or introspectiv...
How to Write Norteño Songs
You want a Norteño song that hits like abuela's kitchen gossip and a roadside party at the same time. You want the accordion to say exa...