How to Write Songs
How to Write Folk Rock Songs
You want songs that feel lived in and singable in a crowded bar. You want lyrics that look like a diary and music that can both sit by ...
How to Write Corrido Songs
You want to tell a story that people hum on the way home. You want characters that feel alive and details that stick like gum on a shoe...
How to Write Progressive Metalcore Songs
You want riffs that punch like a freight train and moments that make listeners say what the hell did I just hear. Progressive metalcore...
How to Write Rockabilly/Neo-Rockabilly Songs
Rockabilly, a genre that emerged in the 1950s, is a fusion of rock and roll, country, blues, and hillbilly music. It's characterized by...
How to Write Emo Songs
You want music that makes people feel something ugly and beautiful at the same time. You want lyrics that read like a late night text y...
How to Write Jungle Terror [De] Songs
Jungle Terror, also known as or Deutsche Jungle Terror, is a subgenre of hardcore techno that originated in the 1990s in Germany. It's...
How to Write Instrumental Songs
Instrumental music says things words cannot. It can make someone cry in a coffee shop, win a video game level, sell a million streams w...
How to Write Europop Songs
You want a Europop song that makes a crowd shout the chorus on the second listen. You want synths that sparkle like a sunroof on a conv...
How to Write Electrogrind Songs
Electrogrind is the sound of rage with a USB cable plugged into it. If grindcore and noise met an angry synthesizer at a rave you were ...
How to Write Trad Jazz Songs
So you want to write trad jazz songs. Good. That means you love melody, you worship rhythm that makes the whole body nod, and you secre...