When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty/Kevin Trimmer When we listen to any form of music, we listen for the elements that ...

The most important aspect to study in melody writing is probably your intervals. In Western music, we use 12 notes in semitone intervals, in other cultures they have quarter tones and microtonal ...

I have primarily been a lyricist for close to 25 years. To survive that long in the music business, I have had to stretch my boundaries and come up with ways to evolve my lyric writing along with ...

In an era when millions of songwriters upload music to the internet—and just about any song can be plucked from obscurity by TikTok teens—it seems inevitable that the same melodies end up in different ...