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Writes your first draft — you tweak, rewrite, change chords, make it yours.
In your style, or inspired from your favorite artists. You decide everything.
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Just picking a genre is enough. That alone shapes the whole feel. If you also want to pick a specific artist (the next step), the song will lean into their sound. Elvis feels different from Van Halen. Cash feels different from Dolly. Taylor feels different from Billie. And so on, and so on.
Classic Country
Cash, Dolly, Waylon, Hank Williams. Stories told plain, with weight.
New Country
Lainey Wilson, Luke Bryan, Kane Brown. Country bones, pop polish, radio hooks.
Soft Rock
Bryan Adams, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel. Polished feeling, melody first.
Rock
Elvis, Beatles, Eagles, Petty, Van Halen. Melodic, guitar-driven, made to sing along.
Classic Rock
Stones, The Band, Skynyrd, AC/DC, Zeppelin. Big imagery, guitar muscle, hooks that swing.
Alt Rock
Radiohead, Nirvana, The National. Oblique, atmospheric, dynamic.
Folk
Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkel. Stories with breath, voice forward.
Blues
B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Etta James. Twelve bars, three lines, one ache.
Soul
Aretha, Otis, Marvin, Amy. Gospel roots, horns, feeling right on the surface.
Pop
Taylor, Bieber, Billie, Olivia. Modern, immediate, hook-obsessed.
Hip Hop
Tupac, NWA, Kendrick, Drake, Megan. Persona, density, multisyllabic rhyme.
Sparse & raw
Short lines. Plain words. Nothing wasted. The kind of lyric where silence does as much work as the words. Like Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Gillian Welch.
Poetic & dense
Rich imagery, layered meaning, words worth re-reading. Bigger vocabulary, more metaphor, more risk. Like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen.
Conversational
Sounds like someone talking to you, not performing. First-person, direct, no fancy language. Easy to sing because it's how people actually speak. Like John Prine, James Taylor, Lou Reed, Olivia Rodrigo.
Storytelling
A scene that unfolds — a character, a place, something happening. Verses move the story forward; the chorus is the emotional verdict. Like Bruce Springsteen, Tom T. Hall, Harry Chapin.
Hook-forward pop
Direct and catchy. Chorus engineered for repetition — sing it in the car after one listen. Like Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry.
Anthemic
Big, simple, direct. Arena-scale emotion — chorus is a shout-along. Not many words in the hook, but the ones there hit hard. Like Queen, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, U2, Springsteen at his biggest.
Confessional
First-person, painful truth said quietly. The intensity is emotional, not loud. Everyday details carrying big weight. Like Phoebe Bridgers, Adele, Elliott Smith, Julien Baker.
Cinematic
Painterly scene-setting. Every line has a picture. Mood over story. Rich atmospheric detail — what things look, smell, sound like. Like Lana Del Rey, The Weeknd, Halsey, Florence Welch.
Grunge & real
Loud, cryptic, gut-punch. Angst wrapped in imagery, not narrative. Doesn't explain itself — feelings come out sideways. Willing to be ugly, weird, or contradictory. Like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Modest Mouse, Deftones.
Free verse
No rhyme pattern. Let the words flow naturally.
Couplets (AABB)
Paired lines rhyme. 1 with 2, then 3 with 4.
Alternating (ABAB)
Every other line rhymes. 1 with 3, 2 with 4.
Folk pattern (ABCB)
Only the 2nd and 4th lines rhyme. Common in folk and country.
Internal rhymes
Rhymes happen inside lines, not just at the end. Clever and dense.
Octave
Piano, guitar or synth strings — the switches at the top of the page change how these chords sound.
You don't have to choose. Leave it and the chords will come from the feelings you picked, the genre and era, and the artist if you named one. Pick one here and it's yours — the verses start on it and stay in its key.
Upbeat & hopeful
C — G — Am — F
Bright and open. Familiar warmth. Feels like possibility cracking through.
Dark & heavy
Dm — Am — Bb — F↓
Weight without collapse. Sits in the dark comfortably.
Heart and Soul
C — Am — F — G
The progression behind a thousand pop classics. Playful, nostalgic, hard not to hum along.
Rising
C — F↓ — G↓ — Am
Drops under the C, then climbs a step at a time. Easy chords with a lift built in.
Gentle & emotional
C — Em — Am — F
That Em adds a wistful pull. Ballad-pretty and easy to play.
Soft and sweet
C — Dm — F — G
A tender minor step, then home. Warm and forgiving.
Bright & building
C — Em — F — G
Climbs upward the whole way. Open and easy to sing over.
Rock swagger
C — Bb — F — C
A Southern-rock strut. That Bb gives it the swing.
Tense & edgy
Em — D — C — B7
Never fully resolves. Perfect for anger or conflict that has no answer.
Dreamy & floating
Cmaj7 — Am7 — Fmaj7 — G
Soft edges. Like a memory you can't quite hold onto.
Warm & grounded
G — D — Em — C
Steady and honest. Sounds like something real happened here.
Broken/Unbroken
Am — C — F — E
That E major surprise stings right when you don't expect it.
Open road
E — A — D — A
Forward momentum. Windows down, headed somewhere.
Quiet hope
F — C — Dm — Am
Sadness softening into peace. Tender and still.
Big anthem
D — G — A — D
The "made it through" sound. Big and open.
Lonely & folk
Em — Am — D — G
Late-night campfire feeling. Wistful and worn-in.
Tender & intimate
D — A — Bm — G
A love song that means it. Warm without being sweet.
Blues with swagger
A7 — D7 — A7 — E7
Dominant sevenths that swing. Front porch, hard times, and a smile through it all.
Old-soul slow dance
C — Am — Dm — G
Doo-wop and Blue Moon. Classic, romantic, never not in style.
Mysterious & cinematic
Am — F — Em — Dm
A descending walk into something darker. Slow burn, suspense, things not said.
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