How to Write Songs
How to Write Ska Punk Songs
You want a song that makes people pogo politely and clap on the offbeat. Ska punk is the friend who shows up in a thrift store jacket a...
How to Write Trip Hop Songs
You want something that smells like midnight, vinyl dust, and heartache. Trip hop lives where hip hop drums meet moody atmospheres. It ...
How to Write Early Hardcore [Fr] Songs
You want a song that hits like a fist and stays in the skull like a cheap tattoo. Early hardcore is brutal, quick, honest, and sometime...
How to Write Stoner-Doom Songs
Stoner doom is weight, sway, and slow fire. You want riffs that feel like molasses sliding off a cliff. You want guitars that buzz like...
How to Write Southern Soul Songs
This is Southern soul songwriting for people who want to feel like they were born in a porch swing and raised on greasy fried chicken a...
How to Write Acid Breaks Songs
You want your track to feel like a gutter party in a science lab. You want squelchy bass that bites and breaks that make people lose th...
How to Write Baroque Pop Songs
Baroque pop is that deliciously dramatic cousin of pop music. It wears lace, drinks espresso in a library, and then slaps you with a st...
How to Write Baggy (Madchester) Songs
You want a song that feels like a sweaty club at 2 a.m. and an afternoon park jam at the same time. You want drums that push like a bac...
How to Write Kwela Songs
You want a kwela song that makes feet move and heads nod the second the whistle blows. You want a riff that people whistle on the bus, ...
How to Write Ambient Industrial [Pl] Songs
Ambient industrial is the soundtrack for the part of your brain that likes things eerie and tactile at the same time. It is music that ...