How to Write Songs
How to Write Canadian Folk Music Songs
You want a song that smells like cedar smoke, Tim Hortons coffee, and honest grief that still manages to make people clap. Canadian fol...
How to Write Drumfunk Songs
Drumfunk is the kind of rhythm that makes your spine remember a beat it never met. It is messy in a perfect way. Drumfunk is about micr...
How to Write Phonk Songs
You want a track that smells like midnight, old VHS tapes, and the kind of reckless nostalgia that makes people throw their phones into...
How to Write Power Soca Songs
You want a soca banger that makes people lose their minds on the road. You want a hook that the band can blast at sunrise and a chant t...
How to Write Punk Pathetique Songs
Punk pathetique is the ugly cousin of glittering pop and the crying friend at the bar who still knows how to start a mosh pit. It is co...
How to Write Punk Jazz Songs
You want music that hits like a Molotov cocktail but thinks like a jazz soloist. You want raw energy with harmonic curiosity. You want ...
How to Write Dance-Rock Songs
You want a song that gets a room sweating and smiling at the same time. Dance rock lives where gritty guitar attitude high fives electr...
How to Write Adult Contemporary Songs
Adult Contemporary songs want the moment you can hum in the car while the sun goes down. They are the grown up pop songs that neighborh...
How to Write Balearic Beat Songs
Balearic beat is the soundtrack of sunsets, scooters, cheap gin, and slow dancing on a terrace with the sea on the horizon. It is not a...
How to Write 2-Step Garage Songs
You want a beat that skips like a jittery glint on wet pavement. You want vocals chopped into ear candy. You want bass that hugs the fl...