How to Write Songs
How to Write Congolese Rumba Songs
You want a song that makes people move like they lost a small argument with gravity. You want honeyed guitars, slippery bass, a chorus ...
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 Bardcore Songs
So you want to make a song that sounds like it was performed in a smoky tavern with a lute and a level two wizard backing vocals. Welco...
How to Write Neotraditional Country Songs
You want a country song that smells like old wood floors, cheap whiskey, and truth. You want lyrics that tell a small honest story. You...
How to Write Minimal Techno Songs
You want a track that locks a room into a trance. Minimal techno is not empty. It is ruthless with space. It makes every tiny change fe...
How to Write Maracatu Songs
You want a song that stomps, speaks, and honors a lineage. You want a beat that makes people move like they remembered the steps from a...
How to Write Chicago Blues Songs
You want a Chicago blues song that sounds like it came from a bar with sticky floors and better stories. You want gritty lines that bit...
How to Write Hokum Songs
Hokum songs are that rude wink at grandma while you play a juke joint classic. They are built from sly jokes, irresistible wordplay, an...
How to Write Anti-Folk Songs
You want songs that sting, that make people laugh, that make them squirm and then sing the chorus in the grocery store. Anti Folk is no...
How to Write Ragtime Songs
Ragtime is the original earworm with a pocket watch and a sense of mischief. It sounds like someone tap danced on a clock then decided ...