How to Write Songs
How to Write Baltimore Club Songs
You want a track that snaps, bangs, and makes people move like they forgot to pay rent. Baltimore Club music is short, punchy, repetiti...
How to Write Latin House Songs
Want to make a record that makes bodies move and phones explode with dancing videos? Latin house fuses the steady energy of house music...
How to Write Post-Dubstep Songs
Want to make music that rattles speakers and also makes people feel things? Welcome to post dubstep. It takes the heavy low end and rhy...
How to Write Nu Metal Songs
You want riffs that feel like a punch to the chest and lyrics that spit truth into a mosh pit. You want grooves that make people nod an...
How to Write Australian Folk Music Songs
You want a song that smells like a dusty highway and tastes like a cold drink after a long arvo. You want lines that sound like they we...
How to Write a Rap Song
You want verses that feel inevitable and hooks that live in people’s mouths for weeks. You want rhyme schemes that snap, cadences that ...
How to Write Punk Songs
You want songs that hit fast and refuse to be polite. You want riffs that sound like someone lit a fuse and vocals that sound like trut...
How to Write Lowercase Songs
Lowercase songs are tiny acts of emotional sabotage. They sneak up on a listener like someone quietly stealing your hoodie from the bac...
How to Write Bebop Songs
You want a tune that swings hard, surprises the ear, and makes other musicians either nod in respect or pretend they knew it all along....
How to Write Mbaqanga Songs
You want a song that makes people clap their hands, sway their hips and sing the chorus back in the taxi home. Mbaqanga is the music th...