July Songwriting Challenges
Steal the title of a recent pop song. Reimagine how that title can stretch and twist into a song of your invention.
Concrete songwriting is a method of writing in which the 5 senses - touch, sight, smell, hearing, and taste - are invoked. Write a song that sparks all 5 senses.
Who is God to you? Who is God to world? Is God an all knowing force, an ambiguous sphere of energy, a powerful fictional character, or something all together new? Write a song about God and what God means to you.
Get back to Analog. Whip out that guitar, a pen, and a paper pad. What happens when you’ve had your DAWS and online rhyming dictionaries taken from you? Who are you when you only have access to the bare minimum?
YouTube and Beatstars provide songwriters with plenty of free tracks to write over. Find an instrumental that you really like and fit a song into the arm that another producer has created.
Perfect rhymes are overrated! Write a song that only uses slant rhymes!
“Big bag busing’ out the the Bentley Bentayga/Man, Balancing bard back and these b*tches f*cked!” Alliteration - the repetition of the same letter sound at the beginning of adjacent words - is a chief tool for rappers like Card B. Write a chorus in which alliteration takes center stage.
I know it may not seem like it but Christmas is around the corner in the world of the music business. Write a song that you could release this Christmas.
Give yourself 5 minutes to brainstorm as many song titles as possible. Choose one from this batch to direct your creative process today.
Imagine that today is your first day on Earth. What do you see? What scares you? What excites? What does your voice sound like in this instance?
