March Songwriting Challenges
Choose a day this weekend to stay up between midnight and 6am. Write in these wee hours of the morning and see if something great comes out.
Download a free pre-made track on YouTube and use it as the basis of a new song. Write a top line over it.
Interpolations are all the rage right now - Bebe Rexha’s “I’m Good (Blue)” and Baby Tate’s “Hey Mickey” are two examples. Choose a melody/lyric to interpolate into your own music as a Hooke and see what comes of it!
Be your own producer. I know that DAWs can be a little scary but go for it. See what happens if you’re in charge of the track.
Write a song that is very decade specific. Choose the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, or 90’s as your sonic inspiration.
Pick your favorite character from a novel you’ve read recently. Pen them a theme song.
Invoke the 5 senses. Write a song in which details incline the reader to imagine how a scene smells, tastes, looks, sounds, and feels like.
Write a free form poem. Then put it to music.
Pen a song that acts as a letter to your parents.
Holiday season is wayyyyyy out there. But it’s never too early to start penning holiday songs. Write something you can release around Christmas.
