How to Write Songs
How to Write Brill Building Songs
You want a perfect little pop grenade that explodes in three minutes. You want a chorus that people can sing after one listen. You want...
How to Write Punta Rock Songs
You want a song that makes people move like they forgot they had a spine. You want rhythm that hits the pelvis before the brain process...
How to Write Singer-Songwriter Songs
You want songs that sit in a room with a person and refuse to leave. You want lyrics that feel like a diary but sing like a poem. You w...
How to Write Isicathamiya Songs
You want your group to slide into a room and make everyone hush just from the way you breathe together. You want vocal lines that feel ...
How to Write Mbalax Songs
You want a Mbalax song that slaps the floor, lifts feet, and makes your aunt text you congratulations. Mbalax is the sound of Senegal a...
How to Write Samba-Jazz Songs
You want a samba jazz song that makes people move and think at the same time. You want rhythms that snap the hips and harmonies that wh...
How to Write Skiffle Songs
Skiffle is the sound of a kitchen sink party that learned to play music and never stopped. It is rough around the edges, loud in person...
How to Write Gothic Rock Songs
You want a song that feels like velvet dipped in smoke. You want guitars that sigh, bass that moves like a slow heartbeat, vocals that ...
How to Write Trance Music Songs
Want to make trance that actually moves bodies and causes emotional breakdowns on dance floors? Cool. You are in the right place. This ...
How to Write Goa Trance Songs
So you want to write Goa Trance. You want that hypnotic swirl of arpeggios, the acid squiggles that feel like your brain is being gentl...