How to Write Songs
How to Write Boomba Songs
You want a song that slaps in the club and bangs on your headphones. You want a groove so infectious people nod their heads without rea...
How to Write Proto-Punk Songs
You want a song that sounds like a middle finger wrapped in a three chord riff. You want urgency, grime, and attitude riding on a melod...
How to Write Sufi Rock Songs
You want music that sounds like incense and amp feedback had a genius baby. Sufi rock mixes devotional intensity, ecstatic phrasing, an...
How to Write Country Rap Songs
You want boots and bass to sit in the same car and not fight. You want verses that spit truth and choruses that make folks sing along i...
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...
How to Write Progressive Bluegrass/Nu-Grass Songs
Before diving into the world of writing progressive bluegrass/nu-grass songs, it's essential to understand the roots of this genre. Blu...
How to Write Mandopop Songs
You want a Mandopop song that makes listeners cry in the subway and replay in the taxi app. You want a chorus that grandma and your cru...
How to Write Deathrock Songs
Deathrock is dramatic, a little theatrical, and deliciously grimy. If you are that person who puts black nail polish on their anxiety a...
How to Write Filmi Songs
Filmi songs are emotional grenades packaged as ear candy. They can make a room fall in love, make a villain seem sympathetic, or turn a...
How to Write Avant-Garde & Experimental Songs
You want music that surprises the listener and makes them feel something they did not know they could feel. You want tracks that break ...