How to Write Songs
How to Write Microsound Songs
If your songs could fit inside a single breath and still slap, you are in the right place. Microsound is the art of using tiny fragment...
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 Lambada Songs
You want a song that makes bodies move and smiles break out at the exact same second. You want that signature sway, the close hold on t...
How to Write Alternative R&B Songs
You want a song that feels like midnight sunlight. You want textures that catch a listener between memory and desire. You want lyrics t...
How to Write Swamp Blues Songs
You want swamp blues that smells like moss and gasoline. You want a groove so lazy it sits sideways and lyrics that talk to the dust un...
How to Write Orchestral Jazz Songs
So you want to write orchestral jazz songs that make people feel smart, drunk, and breathless at the same time. Good. This guide hands ...
How to Write Instrumental Rock Songs
You want an instrumental that does not need words to make your listeners feel assaulted and healed at the same time. You want riffs tha...
How to Write Balkan Music Songs
You want a Balkan song that slaps, makes people stomp their feet, and haunts karaoke nights. You want odd meters that feel natural, mel...
How to Write Free Jazz Songs
Free jazz is not chaos with a permit. It is language without a leash. If you want a song that breathes like a conversation at three a m...
How to Write Livetronica Songs
You want music that makes people dance like they are trying to escape adulthood for three minutes. Livetronica mixes live playing with ...