How To Write A Rap Song | A Step By Step Guide

I’ve been asked by a few songwriters for advice on how to create good Hip-Hop and Rap songs. Because this is a little outside of my usual style, I asked a couple of successful Rap producers and label owners to help me out.

HIP-HOP SONG FORM

Hip-Hop relies on a 16-bar verse form followed by a chorus/hook section. Often there are three verse sections with each one followed by a chorus or hook section. Sometimes the third verse is replaced with a bridge, a section with different chords or a change up  in the rap style or content. The hook/chorus provides an anchor for the listener while the verses tell the story, paint a picture, or express the personality of the rapper.

I’ve noticed that some very successful rap songs open with the hook – the catchiest part of the song –  to grab the listener’s attention right at the start.   Use these repeated hook sections to make a statement that sums up the heart of your song. These are the lines your listeners will remember so make them emotional, honest, and unique.

Crossover Urban hits like Keyshia Cole and Missy Elliott’s “Let It Go” or Kanye West and T-Pains’s “Good Life” have big melodic choruses that break up the rap verses. You can use these songs to help you frame a solid song structure in this style. Just make your rap is the same length as theirs and drop your hook where they do.

Producers’ advice: Whether you sing or rap your chorus hook, use plenty of contrast. Try jumping to a high note to start a melodic hook and smoothing or stretching out the delivery. For a rap hook, change up the pace or rhythm pattern – slow it down or shorten/lengthen your phrases. Start on an unexpected beat or emphasize an unusual beat. Your goal is to change up the rhythm of the words or melody enough to catch the listener’s attention.

Focus the hook lyric around a single strong statement. Repeat it to give listeners a chance to get into it before you start your next verse..

RHYMES

Obviously rhyming plays a huge role in Rap and Hip-hop hits – much bigger than it does in today’s Pop, Country, or Rock genres. You really need to dazzle your listeners with fresh rhymes. On the other hand, you don’t want to write a line just for the rhyme – it’s got to say something that moves the listener forward, deeper into the song.

Start by writing down what you want to say without worrying about rhyming at all. Then go back and look for rhymes that “just happened.” Look for words that are “near rhymes.” These are words with the same vowel sound. Look for words that might rhyme if you added another syllable. Check out B-rhymes.com orRhymeDesk.com for ideas on near rhymes and multi-syllable rhymes.

The best way I’ve found for getting your head into a  rhyming place is to listen to a lot of  Rap songs that you like. It’s like turning on a switch in your brain. You’re telling it this is what you want to do. Try it. It really works.

FLOW

The flow of the lyric is at the heart of great rap songs. Label owners tell me they hear a lot of wanna-be rappers who just haven’t paid enough attention to creating a great rhythmic delivery in their lyrics – one that’s interesting and distinctive.

Mix up the pace. The pattern of rapid vs. slow phrases is key to your personal style and helps to keep listeners off balance and interested. Try emphasizing unexpected beats and syllables. Start your phrases on unusual beats. Use the upbeats to add a syncopated feel.

Study your favorite rap artists for flow and style. This doesn’t mean you’ll end up copying them or sounding like them. Blend what you learn with your own style to create something that’s both recognizable and distinctly your own.

THEMES – TAKE A FRESH LOOK

Producers I’ve talked to all suggest that you come at your theme from a unique angle. Try to bring new insights to the emotions and events you’re writing about. Can you say something listeners haven’t heard before? If you can, they’re more likely to pay attention and want to hear the song again..

One producer said “Think outside the box. Approach your theme in a different way. Don’t just start with the first idea that comes to you. Instead, start with something unusual, then work your way back to your first idea.”

Everyone agreed that it’s important to use plenty of images and action words in your rap to bring your lyric theme to life. Show listeners what it’s like by painting a picture of the life and the characters. If you make a statement, back it up with examples of what you’re talking about. Lay it out in images, conversation, situations, experiences, characters, and actions. Put your listener inside the scene.

Try It!  Read the lyrics of Hip Hop artists you like. Notice how they develop their lyric. Then try some of those techniques in your own song.

CHORDS

Melodic choruses have a chord progression but there’s not usually much movement. In fact, it’s often just a single chord.  Verses will imply a chord even if you don’t actually play one. Learn some of the chords that successful Hip-Hop songs use and try them in songs of your own. Change to suit your taste and your song. Be careful that you don’t use the melody or lyrics of the hit song – those are copyrighted.

BEATS

You’re going to need beats to write to. Be careful about using beats that come from another artist’s song. These are copyrighted. Instead, try these resources…

1. There are websites where you can purchase beats that you can legally use in your own songs. Be sure you also have the rights to license any songs you write with those beats for film & TV uses. (There are good opportunities for Hip-Hop songs in film & TV.) Take your time and shop around for a reputable site with beats you like, ones that inspire you to write. Avoid using free beat loops. You probably won’t have all the rights you need and they may have been used a lot by others.

2. Create your own beats using software like FL Studio or Reason.  You can start with the “canned” loops that come with the program. But you want to be sure to add your own touches. An extra shaker track or snare hit can customize an existing loop. Or try dropping out some of the instruments in the loop during some of your song sections. Replace the dropped-out beat with a different sample. Have fun. Be creative. Here’a link to an inexpensive program used by a lot of rappers: FL Studio Fruity edition.

And here’s hip-hop producer Justen Williams using Reason 7 to produce a track. Some cool ideas here:

3. Look for a co-writer to create the track while you write the “top-line” (lyrics and melody). A good co-writer can add strength and help you stay focused. It may take a few tries to find the right person but it’s worth it. FL Studio has a good forum where you can look for co-writers. Or try a local DJ, school, or club scene.

In my experience working with singer-songwriters, a topic that often emerges is how to use simple and strong instrumental techniques to express our songs. Some of the songwriters I work with are vocalists, and they are very insecure about their ability to express their songs on piano or guitar. Reflecting on my own career after entering the industry, I spent much more time writing songs and being in the studio with professional session players playing my songs then I ever did practicing or performing my own songs. This, of course, helped me to become a better writer. But looking back, I would have also liked to devote a little more time each day to my expression of my songs on my instrument as a solo singer-songwriter.

There are some fantastic teachers who can teach how to play popular music styles in simple ways. In my experience, however, not every teacher has the skills or understanding of the function of a piano in a pop band, for example, and can teach it effectively. I grew up on classical music, and indeed there is no greater melodic tutor then Mozart. But when it comes to writing groove, I grew up training my left hand to stick to single chords and arpeggios rather than casting a wonderfully syncopated groove. And classically trained instructors weren’t able to enlighten me, either.

If you can’t find an instructor in your area who can teach you to express your songs in the style consistent with your genre, I encourage you to turn to online study and tutorials (Berklee Online offers a number of piano/keyboard courses). There are some simple rhythms a pop pianist can learn to play, and wonderful exercises to help learned how much and when to play.

At home, start to listen to and recognize how simple the basic pop piano track can be. More often than not, we play too much. The first verse with whole notes in both hands, or half note chords in our right hand with whole notes in the left hand can be just what the song needs to create proper build and dynamic towards the chorus. Thinking like a producer, we can learn how subdividing the beats builds energy. As the song progresses, our right hand might move from whole notes to quarter notes and finally to eighth notes to reflect that build that is created as the band gathers energy and finally explodes in full swing at the chorus.

Remembering we can take advantage of the full range of the piano, we can start small and high in the first verse. Keeping our hands close together, we reflect an intimacy that might be there in the lyric.  When we want to reflect the expansiveness, heaviness, or intensity of the main message, we spread our hands apart across the greater length of the keyboard.

If you can’t play well, practice playing simply. When the song is good and your voice adequately expresses the message of the song, the listener will often forget about the accompaniment altogether. As long as we are consistent with the tempo, the accompaniment can be a transparent element of the song.

Try not to noodle in your right hand while you are singing, but provide simple two or three-note melodic motifs in the spaces between your vocal lines.

We get our best expression of the song on our instruments when we imagine we are trying to emulate the full band. For contemporary music styles, an instructor who has performed in band settings or has production or music director experience is a great choice.

If you’re feeling frustrated by an inability to express your songs with your instrument and voice, look into courses at Berklee Online that can help you gain control over this important element of your songwriting career.

Being a good songwriter requires:

• A good musical ear
• Connecting with the audience
• A mastery of language
• Understanding musical styles
• Positive collaboration

If you noticed, these are all skills that you can have without playing piano or guitar. In fact, as a percussionist myself with some basic piano/vocal skills, I have found that technology can help me overcome hurdles that my keyboardist friends don’t need to worry about, like developing convincing harmonic structures.

In this article you will learn songwriting techniques that will help you with orwithout an instrument. If you do play an instrument, read on for some helpful tips. If you do not play an instrument, you will discover there are great ways to develop your songwriting skills.

Get Inspired

Many artists find that they have some of their best musical ideas when they are alone. Maybe you can keep your lyric journal by your bed at night to capture midnight inspiration. Take a walk outside and enjoy the quiet solitude. Spend time people-watching in a busy city and observe human interaction. Go to an art gallery and take in what each painting tells you. Watch your kids or grandkids, or remember a cherished moment with your spouse. Promise to set aside a one to two hour block per week for concentrated songwriting.

Here are some apps to help the songwriter on the go:

SoundCloud

Quickly record and upload your musical ideas. Share them quickly with friends and through social media for immediate feedback.

Fourtrack:

An immediate four track mixer on your smartphone. This is especially handy if you want to record melody, background, and harmony quickly.

B-Rhymes:

This simple app helps you find both direct and creative rhymes. A great way to spice up your song.

Suggester:

This free app helps find chord progressions for your song. Build musical phrases and playback popular progressions.

Jot Down Lyrics

Carry a notebook with you at all times and jot down events – both the mundane and the significant – throughout the day. Write down lyrics, rhymes, and ideas. If you like to sing your melodies as you develop your lyrics, then use your smartphone to record your voice, especially if you are not sure if you will remember the melody later.

Record it!

Using a simple recording device, practice singing your lyrics and developing rhythms and harmonies. The chances are, even without playing an instrument, you can sing your melody.

If you are used to singing multiple parts or have a little bit of rhythm, you can even develop your song more fully by recording different parts under your tune like background vocals, vocalizations and improv, or a simple rhythm by clapping your hands or beatboxing. By pulling together these elements of a song, you might discover that you don’t need an instrument to put together quite a snazzyarrangement.

For this exercise you will need to record using a program like Garageband orAudacity, or maybe an app like Fourtrack mentioned above. You can also ask a friend to help you record or let you use their equipment if you want to record with more professional gear.

Here’s a simple process you could follow:

1. Practice singing your melody and memorize the lyrics
2. Record your melody
3. When you have a recording that you like, add a second track
4. In the second track sing a simple background vocal
5. Add a third track, adding in light percussion by clapping, beat boxing, stomping your feet, or picking up a shaker
6. Continue adding tracks until you feel like you have a rich arrangement
   Share your track with your friends and get their feedback!

Song Structure

As you edit your lyrics, it is time to separate out the verses, chorus, and bridge to your song. There are many different patterns that you can follow. This is one of the more popular song structures:

INTRO
VERSE 1
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS
BRIDGE
CHORUS

Your song structure depends on the musical style you choose, your lyrics, the number of verses, and how you “hear” the song playing out. Sometimes you might have to work around practical needs. For example, if you have an amazing drummer, you might want to add an optional drum break, or if your singer likes to improvise, maybe you end the song with a single line sung a capella i.e. without instruments.

Don’t know which section is the chorus? Read through your lyrics. Which lines come back a second or third time? That is probably your chorus. For example, inJingle Bells, the section that starts “Dashing through the snow/On a one-horse open sleigh” is the verse while the repeated section “Jingle Bells/Jingle Bells/Jingle all the Way” is the chorus. Usually you will find the title of your song in the chorus too.

Harmonizing

This is probably the most difficult aspect of songwriting for those that do not play an instrument, but it is not impossible. I will admit that as a percussionist, I often hear the rhythm and bass lines of a song well before I will ever hear the actual harmonies. In many ways, I feel like I have to figure out a song almost backwards sometimes! I’ll pluck out the bass line and drumbeat underneath my sung melodies before figuring out the actual harmonic structure.

This is when it is helpful to know some basics of harmonic structure, like common chords for popular song styles. Ironically, most mainstream music is based on simple chord structures based on I-IV-V chords. For example in the key of C that would be the C-F-G chords.

A common chord structure can be derived from the classical song Canon in D by Pachelbel. The actual chord structure for this song is as follows:

D-A-Bm-F#m-G-D-G-A

By listening to this quirky video by musician Rob Paravonian below, you can hear how knowing just this one chord progression can help you write a song in almost any genre:

Is it really that easy? Well, no. You need to develop some your chord listening skillsto be able to sing over a chord progression even if you are not personally playing it on piano or guitar.

Other popular progressions include:

• I-V-vi-IV
• I-vi-IV-V
• I-IV-V-IV
• V-IV-I

You can hear the V-IV-I progression in Sweet Home Alabama.

Here are some useful harmony secrets:

• Major keys like C Major or F Major are considered “happy” and convey a sense of joy.
• Minor keys like C Minor or D Minor are often used for a depressing and sadsound.
• Keys always want to resolve back to the original tonic chord (the I chord – or iin a minor key). So if your song is in the key of C, then you will probably end on the C chord to sound “finished”
• A key change is when you move from one key signature to another, like from major to minor. While you don’t always need a key change in your song, sometimes you might find it adds excitement

Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is written in the key of C# minor and denotes a sad depressed mood.

Jam with a Friend

Music is a communal activity, and nothing is more fun that jamming with your besties. Arrange a night of jamming and it can quickly turn into a song writing session.

• Each person brings lyrics for one or two songs
• Choose a designated instrumentalist, like a guitarist or pianist
• Sing your song out loud without accompaniment
• Discuss your musical ideas, genre, and thoughts about the song
• Gradually work together to create a full arrangement of lyrics, melody and harmony
• Record your result

Song-writing Unleashed

So you see, the process of writing songs is perfectly possible even if you don’t play an instrument.

Start with what you’ve got: lyrical ideas, hummed melody lines, some chord listening skills, and so on. Work with technology or with friends to flesh out the details and you can produce a full arrangement and recorded version of your song from scratch. Never let not playing an instrument hold you back in song-writing!

The blues may look and sound simple, but it takes feeling, a gift for wordplay, and an understanding of the rules to write a good blues tune.

The blues is rooted in the expression of pain. After all, this uniquely American song form was born from the harsh existence of slaves on southern plantations. An amalgam of work songs, field hollers, spirituals and ballads, the blues evolved over the course of a century into the definition of musical lamentation. The blues commemorates the real, not the idealized. It sings of sadness, hardship, and suffering—most frequently at the hands of a man's job or his woman. It also could be bawdy, even humorous. And as the blues traveled northbound on the Mississippi, it influenced a variety of other genres and became a fundamental root of rock and roll.

The formula is deceptively simple. Blues was an oral tradition long before being committed to sheet music. Its practitioners were often not formally trained musicians, and its repetitive schemes reflect the mnemonic qualities required to pass down songs from one generation to another. But don't mistake its simplicity of form as being unsophisticated in expression. Many blues lyrics demonstrate a mastery of double entendre and metaphor. To be able to write a compelling story within the particular confines of the blues is an appreciable art in itself. Much like writing bound verse poetry, the key to the blues is about understanding the rules, first to work within them, then to earn the occasional right to break them.

Musical Characteristics

There are two defining characteristics of traditional blues. The first is the standard chord progression, based on a I-IV-V pattern (the tonic, subdominant, and dominant tones of the scale). The second is the use of flatted thirds, fifths and sevenths, known as the "blue notes," in the melody. As a result, blues relies heavily on the pentatonic scale, and can be written in either a major or minor key. In addition, a blues song can also be defined in terms of the number of measures, or bars, that comprise a full stanza. The most easily recognizable form is 12-bar. Also common to the genre are 8-bar and 16-bar schemes.

Lyrical Characteristics

Because of the subject matter, the lyrical expression can take on an extremely wide range of forms. The most traditional lyric pattern is based on a narrative call-and-response structure. Taking the form of a three-line rhyme scheme, each stanza repeats the first two lines to form the call and concludes with a reply that forms the response. There can be any number of stanzas, although three and five are common. A blues song also typically tells a story.

Putting it All Together

If we examine a 12-bar blues song with the call-and-response lyric pattern described above, you can see how the music and words work together. Take Robert Johnson's signature tune,Crossroads Blues:

(I) I went to the crossroads(IV) Fell down on my knees (I) (I)
(IV) I went to the crossroads
(IV) Fell down on my knees (I) (I)
(V) Asked the Lord above, have mercy now
(IV) Save poor Bob, if you please (I) (V)

The trick is to take an experience about which you can write. Pick a situation where you felt you were unfairly or badly treated. The blues always works better when you tap into the collective sense of injustice (see Cubs, Chicago, for instance). Do some free writing and then start highlighting salient words and phrases. Listen to some blues standards to get a feel for the rhythm, whether it's slow or up-tempo. Then start fitting your lyrics to the melody, looking for ways to rhyme and repeat. Get a few stanzas written, then revise.

Just remember, blues is as much about feeling as it is about music. You have to put some feeling into it for the song to mean anything. And if you ever get frustrated, take to heart the words of Albert Collins: "Simple music is the hardest music to play, and blues is simple music."

Today I want to show you a simple technique that has the potential to take you halfway to songwriting genius.

Sounds crazy right? Well, just wait until you hear the results for yourself...

I had a good friend ring me up just a couple of days ago. He took ten minutes to tell me how much he was struggling with his songwriting, And how he was completely miserable about it.

Songwriting shouldn't be this way.

Here's how songwriting is in my view.

It's a fun, joyous activity. It's EXCITING!

It's where you get to use that part of your mind that creates blissful dreams... your creative side...

It's pleasurable... and the better at it you get, the more pleasurable it feels...

So...

Why is my friend finding things so difficult?

Well, the first thing that occurred to me is he's approaching things in the wrong way. He's trying to use the wrong thought processes, the wrong parts of his brain, and the wrong attitude to create music.

If you have to "try hard" to create music, you're doing something very wrong.

Creating wonderful music, intriguing lyrics, and hypnotic melodies is actually pretty easy when you know how...

So how?

"Gimmie some answers"! I can hear you say!

Ok, this should help...

When I was talking to my friend the other day, I decided to give him some advice to cure his songwriting problems.

I told him that I had a songwriting technique that would take him "halfway to musical genius" if he had the discipline and determination to follow it through...

He said, "Geoff, I"ll do whatever it takes to get out of this rut!"

I'm going to give you the same advice I gave my friend. Try this songwriting technique and you will truly feel what it's like to be a "genius songwriter", if only for a few moments.

This songwriting technique draws on your more powerful creative resources (something we'll talk about more in future articles), by leveraging a few important principles. Understanding and leveraging these CRUCIAL principles will multiply your creativity in your songwriting like you wouldn't believe. You HAVE to try this for yourself to understand what I mean!

These principles are:

1. The law of Effect. This law states that you get "more of what you reinforce".

2. The principal of articulation, which states that "the more you express or articulate a given perception, the more you will perceive and understand of that and related perceptions"

3. The point of "most learning". This principle is about increasing the intensity of feedback at the point in the "learning loop" where the most profound understanding andlearning occurs.

Ok... let's back up a little!

These three principles are "big ones" and I can't do them justice in this short newsletter. So if you didn't understand those last few paragraphs, don't worry...

Just know that the following songwriting technique leverages these three principles, which is why it's so effective. And you will learn more about these principles in future editions...

Here's the steps to take to use this songwriting technique...

Ok. Let's get into the songwriting technique...

Firstly, you need to sit down with your instrument. Fiddle around with it until it's sounding as good as you can get it.

Also, make sure the room you're in has a "creative feel" to it. Clear up all the clutter, and hang some nice pictures on the walls... buy some interesting lights... whatever you can do togive it a relaxed, creative feel.

Next, you need to hook up some kind of recording device. Nothing fancy here... if you have a tape deck that records sound, use that.

Ok... you've got your instrument ready? And your recording device is fired up and ready to go?

Great... you're ready to engage your creative side, and use the exercise that takes you halfway to genius level...

Excited? I surely am! Let's get into it...

1. Hit record on your recording device.

2. Now, begin playing. Play anything that comes to mind.

The idea here is to play... improvise... but unlike normal improvisation, I want you to try and AVOID the common patterns and ideas that you usually fall into. That's right.

Avoid them.

Instead, play your instrument, just "making things up" as you go... and whenever you fall into a common routine, or if your playing sounds "familiar", immediately direct your playing away from that theme.

Do this for 30 minutes straight!

Don't stop playing for one second during this period. Even if you don't feel like you're playing anything good. Keep going. Keep exploring different ideas. Ignore the urge to stop playing. Ignore the voice in your head that says, "what you're playing sucks!"

Keep playing for 30 minutes straight, deliberately staying away from common themes and melodies. The whole time, search for the new. Tune into that deep, relaxed feeling when ideas seem to flow easily...

Done?! Great!

Now... take your recording of this performance and listen to it not once, but TWICE.

The first time you listen, pay close attention. Listen to the ideas that you thought "sucked" AND listen to the ideas that you liked. Listen the whole way through... the full 30 minuteperformance.

The second time you listen through, you don't need to pay close attention. Just have it playing as back-ground music as you do something else.

Now, here comes the bit that requires some discipline!

Do this same routine for 7 days straight.

It'll take you 1 hour each day for a week (plus the second listening session per day that doesn't require your full attention).

And the rewards for completing this songwriting technique?

Well, I guarantee that if you complete the songwriting technique I've just described, you will have discovered MANY song ideas of such quality you have to hear to believe.

Here's how it will go...

The first few days are tough. Ideas may seem hard to find (they may come easily... it can go either way). When you listen back to the performances you may have many "groan moments". You may go "red in the face" from time to time from embarrassment.You will also find some "gold" out of these first few sessions as well.

After the first 2-3 days though, because of your "listening back" sessions, you are learning what you like, and what you don't like. Most of this learning is happening on an unconscious level, so you won't be aware of it. But you will notice this affect, because on day 3 to day 5 you will notice that you LOVE most of the ideas that you play.

You will notice that there is far more "gold" than there is boring, stale ideas. This is due to the "point of most learning" principle I discussed earlier.

Days 5-7 get very very exciting!

You will come up with ideas that are of a quality you'll find hard to believe. Compelling, wonderful musical ideas that are completely original and unlike any music you've ever written.

This happens because the large "feedback loop" that you've created. By doing the 30 minute "improvisation sessions" and listening back twice each day, you've begun re-programming the way you write music.

Firstly, you're training yourself to allow your ideas to flow from your unconscious (you will notice in each session, there is a point where you settle into a deep, relaxed state, where ideas flow through you easily).

You are also feeding your mind a lot of information to decide things like:

-What ideas you like
-What don't you like
-How it feels to create ideas you like
-Many subtle little tweaks that cause your music to sound GREAT.

And much more.

You don't even need to control this process yourself. Simply listening back to your sessions twice a day will cause this to happen naturally and automatically.

And because you're "improvising freely" with no limitations, and no judging, you're putting yourself into a position where inspirational ideas can emerge easily.

Do the 7 day songwriting technique I've just described. If you want to accelerate and increase your abilities as a songwriter, there is no better or more enjoyable way.

My friend (the one I told you about before) rang me up a few days after beginning this procedure and said to me, "Geoff, the songwriting technique is amazing". "With one session I've managed to come up with more ideas than I usually have in a whole month!"

He went on and on about how much he enjoyed it, and how it's the most relaxing and inspirational way to write music. I agree with him.

I think you will too. Take the time to try this songwriting technique. It'll only take you an hour a day, and by the end of the week, you'll have more great ideas than you can imagine.

If you use the techniques I’m about to share with you, you will be able to easily write rock songs that will seriously blow your mind!

How do I know this?

Well, because I’ve personally had this experience with the ideas I’m about to show you, as well as many thousands of musicians who I’ve taught the methods to.

This leaves me fairly confident that the techniques will work for you too!

Now firstly, before we get to the techniques, let me say that writing a rock song is no different to writing a song in a different style.

All styles of songwriting require the following skills.

• Creating musical ideas
• Creating lyrical ideas
• Arranging these ideas into formats that best support the song

Now the first two skills mentioned are the ones you need to master if you’re to learn how to write a rock song that blows people away.

The final skill listed is actually pretty easy, once you’ve got the ideas to work with.

In a moment I’m going to refer you to resources that will allow you to master these first two important skills. In short, they will show you how to create ideas to write amazing rock songs. Songs full of action, excitement, and even aggression. Songs that get the pulses of your audience pumping!

Before listing the techniques though, I want to give you a brief overview of where these songwriting ideas have come from, so you feel confident in them and follow through with the exercises.

So here’s the history…

Many years ago I was completely frustrated with my rock songwriting ability. Everything I wrote I hated! And every time I showed one of my songs to anyone, they basically got ignored or rejected in some way.

Completely fed up with this, I began researching how I could become a better songwriter.

This research led me into some fascinating areas, such as the science behind creativity… human genius… and advanced development.

As I began to apply these new ideas to my songwriting, I had amazing breakthrough after breakthrough. My abilities soared! I had incredible bursts of creativity. All of a sudden I began writing music and lyrics so many levels above my previous ability, people had trouble believing I had written these new songs!

The techniques I’m about to share with you… the ones that will teach you how to write a rock song that’ll blow your mind… They came from the research I did into creativity, advanced development, and human genius.

They use powerful principles from the discoveries I made, and because of this they will allow you to make large advances in your songwriting.

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Ok, Now I’m Going To Show You The Techniques!

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This first technique deals with the first skill I listed above. It shows you how to create musical ideas… and not just one or two… hundreds of ideas of amazing quality!

After you’re done with this exercise, you’ll seriously have enough material to last you months.

I know this sounds like an exaggeration, but it’s absolutely true. You need to experience this to believe it!

Click Here To Use The Technique And Learn How To Write A Rock Song That Blows You Away!

The second technique deals with writing lyrics. You can use this technique to write lyrics for your rock song. Doing this exercise will results in pages of lyrics that breathe excitement, power, and emotion.

Click Here For This Highly Effective Lyric Writing Technique

Be sure to use both of these techniques! They will show you how to write a rock song that will impress you, your friends, and your fans!