How to Write Songs
How to Write Post-Britpop Songs
You want those big honest choruses that make strangers scream your lyrics at a small sweaty venue. You want the emotional clarity of Br...
How to Write Jumpstyle Songs
You want a track that makes people fling their shoes and actually try the dance moves. You want a kick that slaps like a door being clo...
How to Write Third Stream Songs
You want to make music that sounds like a cultured argument between a saxophonist and a string quartet. You want the intellectual weigh...
How to Write Avant Punk Songs
You want a song that punches your gut and confuses your parents in the best possible way. Avant punk is the beautiful wreckage where pu...
How to Write Hard Trance Songs
You want that stadium spine chill and the club floor to lose its mind. You want a lead so drenched in reverb and detune that your frien...
How to Write British Rock Music Songs
You want a song that sounds like it belongs on a rainy night in a pub and on a festival main stage the next day. You want lyrics that b...
How to Write Chillwave Songs
You want a song that smells like sun warmed vinyl and your first summer crush. You want the beat to feel lazy but the hook to burn a li...
How to Write Balearic Trance Songs
You want your track to feel like a sunset on a rented scooter followed by a midnight swim under neon stars. Balearic Trance is that moo...
How to Write Música Popular Brasileira Songs
Yes, you can write an MPB song that sounds like it grew up in a bar by the beach and went to art school for three semesters. Música Pop...
How to Write American Rock Songs
You want sweat soaked choruses, riffs that punch the jaw, and lyrics that make strangers feel like roommates in your head. You also wan...