How to Write Songs
How to Write Chaabi Songs
You want a Chaabi song that makes aunties clap, teenagers dance, and your cousin finally stop shouting requests from the living room. C...
How to Write Hypnagogic Pop Songs
You want a song that feels like a lucid nap and a secret memory at the same time. Hypnagogic pop is a style that lives in the borderlan...
How to Write Kapa Haka Songs
Yes you can write a kapa haka song. No you should not parachute into someone else s culture and wing it. Kapa haka is living cultural p...
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 Jazz Blues Songs
You want grit and sophistication in the same song. You want lyrics that sting like cheap tequila and chords that make grown musicians s...
How to Write Progressive Country Songs
You want a country song that slaps your heart and then surprises your playlist. Progressive country mixes the heart of classic country ...
How to Write Electro House Songs
Yes you. The one who wants people to lose their minds when the drop hits. You want a track that bulldozes a dance floor, that DJs keep ...
How to Write Tonás Songs
You want to write a Tonás that hits like a gut punch and sounds like it could have been sung in an Andalusian courtyard two hundred yea...
How to Write Detroit Blues Songs
Want a Detroit blues song that smells like coffee at three a.m. and engine grease on Sunday morning? Perfect. You are in the right plac...
How to Write Nederbeat Songs
Want to write songs that sound like a sweaty Amsterdam club in the sixties with jangly guitars, big melodic hooks, and the sort of atti...