Songwriting Advice
How to Write a Song About Ocean And Marine Life
You want a song that smells like salt without using the word salty every four bars. You want whales that feel like characters and coral...
National Socialist Black Metal Songwriting Advice
National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM) is a subgenre of black metal music that has been shrouded in controversy due to its association w...
How to Write Lyrics About Success And Failure
You want a song that nails the taste of winning and the sting of losing in a single chorus. You want lines that make people cheer and l...
How to Write Drone Metal Songs
You want to build earthquakes with guitars. You want held notes that vibrate the fillings in your molars. You want a song that dissolve...
How to Write Blackgaze Songs
If black metal and shoegaze hooked up, what would their love child sound like? That child is blackgaze. It is loud and tender. It is ab...
How to Write a Song About Road Trips And Travel
You want a song that smells like gas station coffee and feels like the sunrise hitting the hood of a car at six in the morning. You wan...
How to Write Honky-Tonk Piano Lyrics
You want songs that smell like spilled whiskey and feel like a stool collapsing under truth. You want lines that are funny and savage. ...
How to Write Songs About Struggle
You want the room to feel less alone when your song ends. You want somebody in the crowd to mouth your line like a lifeline. Songs abou...
How to Write Beach Music Songs
You want a song that smells like sunscreen, tastes like a cold beer, and makes people hop out of the car at the next turnout. Beach mus...
How to Write Morna Lyrics
You want a morna that hits like a slow wave at night. You want words that feel like a tucked away photograph. You want listeners to fee...