Songwriting Challenges

For all of those looking for songwriting inspiration today, here’s a few songwriting challenges.

1) Listen through your favorite Spotify or Apple playlist. Write a song that you believe could fit into this playlist.

2) Record a bass line using your own voice. Build an instrumental around this vocal line and then write a top line for it.

3) Pick one song from this week’s Billboard Hot 100. Rewrite the lyrics to the song to tell your own story but keep the same melody.

4) Pick one song from this week’s Billboard Hot 100. Switch up the perspective! If the song is about someone’s ex, then rewrite it from from the ex’s perspective.

5) Imagine that your favorite book has been turned into a movie. Now, write a song that would be appropriate for the opening scene of this movie.

6) Pick your favorite artist and imagine what their next musical era would sound like. Write a song that you could potentially pitch to that artist.

7) Pick a product from a brand that you love. Write a song about the product that you could pitch to the brand. Sync writing is just as viable a career as writing for artists.

8) Write a song that doesn’t have any words. Free yourself from the need for lyrics and just focus on making a vocal melody that is extremely catchy.