Songwriting Advice
How to Write Songs About Deception
Deception makes for great drama and even better hooks. Lies, half truths, self tricking, and performance that hides an ache are the fue...
Positive Hardcore Songwriting Advice
You want songs that hit like a freight train and heal like a bandage. Positive hardcore is the part of punk that makes fists pump and h...
How to Write JĂ¹jĂº Lyrics
So you want to write JĂ¹jĂº lyrics that make elders clap, DJs nod, and the dance floor forget its responsibilities. Good. JĂ¹jĂº is the mus...
How to Write a Song About Family Dynamics
Family songs are messy, honest, and devastatingly relatable. You can make a crowd laugh, cry, and nod their heads in a single chorus if...
How to Write a Song About Festivals And Carnivals
You want a song that smells like cotton candy and feels like a sunset set. You want lyrics that make someone reach for a dusty ticket s...
How to Write Psychedelic Breakbeat [Es] Lyrics
You want lyrics that feel like a late night alleyway taxi into a neon dream. You want words that ride the drum loop, paint a surreal pi...
How to Write African Electronic Dance Music Songs
If you want a floor full of waving hands, smiling faces, and that moment when everyone sings the line you wrote back at you, you are in...
How to Write Jump Blues Songs
You want a song that makes people stomp their feet and laugh out loud while they sob in the same measure. Jump blues is rowdy, clever, ...
How to Write Soca Songs
You want a song that wakes up a fete, makes a whole road move, and lives rent free in people minds. Soca is not polite background music...
How to Write Western European Songs
You want a song that feels like it came from a rainy cobblestone street, a sunlit plaza, or a packed pub without sounding like a touris...