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Cristobal Tapia de Veer, the visionary composer behind The White Lotus’ distinctive sound, has won the Emmy for Season 3’s Main Title Theme, despite stepping away from the series following creative differences with showrunner Mike White.
In his public reaction, de Veer didn’t hold back. He emphasized...
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Songwriting has a way of surprising me. Today, two very different songs arrived — almost like opposite sides of the same coin.
The first was Things Grow, a quiet reflection on loss, renewal, and how life keeps moving forward even when grief tries to hold you still. It’s personal, tender, and rooted...
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Ario Vahram Thank you — I really appreciate that. I feel this every single day with my songwriting. Some songs surprise me with their tenderness, others with their humor, and some just leave me wonder...
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Wyman Brent Oh, I definitely swing. I never know where inspiration will come from, or what it will spark.
Kat Spencer, you and me both. A photograph, two or three words read online, a walk around town, 75 year old comic books, even 100 year old patent applications.
It's all about my mood and what's happening around me.
Libby Wright, I understand very well.
Some songs sneak up on you when you least expect it. Goodbye arrived while I was walking back to my place — just a few minutes’ stroll, but enough for the lyrics to start forming in my head. I knew immediately it was going to be a total cheese fest, and instead of fighting it, I leaned all the way i...
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Wyman Brent Agreed! The Universe is incredibly smart at giving us what we need.
Kat Spencer, so very true. My song Goodbye has so much cheese that it could cover a very large pizza.
https://wymanbrent.bandcamp.com/track/goodbye...
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Hi there, I'm pretty new here and I'm curious... how do you compose?I tend to go in spurts and then step away for a while. Is this a discipline you do regularly or as the mood strike or both?
Everyday. But for different projects. One day is for musical theatre, another for film, animation or theatre. And each is very different from the other which is great bbecause it keeps me tinking out of the box and definitely pushing my limits.
I'm a composer specializing in film scores. I create original music ranging from romantic and epic to emotional minimalism, always with a particular focus on the film's narrative and visual identity....
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Wow- thanks everyone for the great responses!
Adriano Martorana I love it "Whisper of the soul"
Many thanks
Today reminded me why I write songs.
I was on the bus heading out to the farm when a mother and her young son sat across from me. We started talking, and when I mentioned I was a songwriter, she said her son loves music. I decided to play Let’s Drink Up for them — my whimsical little tune about ducks...
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I wrote this track, called "Evolving", a couple of weeks ago, and I thought its romantic melody could fit a movie like one of my favorites, "In the Mood for Love". I edited my track using a clip from that masterpiece, and this is the result. What do you think?
Very dramatic and cinematic. Love the sweeping strings!
Lee Barbour I understand you!
By my side, I try to be as accurate as I can with dynamics and tempo (accel., rall., rit.) when I write them, so that when I export the MIDI file, I have to adjust it with...
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Libby Wright I'm very happy you like it...!
Very nice. Fits the scenes on the short clips perfectly well.
Emmanuel Obiejemba many thanks!
I’ve watched a few YouTube videos where songwriters talk about the writing process like it’s rocket science — chord progressions, rhyming schemes, and all the rules you “should” follow. That works for them, and I respect it.
But I’ll be honest — I have zero desire to learn the “proper” songwriting...
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Remember, @Wyman-- there's no "wrong way" to make music. It's been around long before any rules, and it will last past them. At least to me, it's the most pure form of expression.
Libby Wright, you are right. Still, I wonder if some will think my song Didgeridoo Dementia is the wrong way to make music.
I’ve noticed something interesting in my own songwriting — how much the choice to use names (or not use them) changes the entire feel of a song.
Take “Southern Gothic” for example. I grounded it in specific characters: Mister Jones, Bobby Hollander, Sheriff Thompson, Judge Ellerbee. That concreteness...
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One of the most interesting habits of modern singer/songwriters picking random titles is Dave Matthews. Like Samuri Cop- it's a song about birth and early childhood. The name could either throw you off or make the song memorable.
Libby Wright, I will have to look for that song. Actually, in my songs, I give no thought as I write them. Southern Gothic came out with specific characters because that is where the words wanted to g...
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Yesterday was one of those rare days where the songs just kept flowing. By the end of the day, I had written 12 new songs.
What stuns me is not just the number, but the range and quality. Five of them formed a cohesive Southern rock suite that feels like it could have been pressed onto vinyl in the...
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I used to grab my guitar and keyboards a lot more in the past - good to see you still have your muse at the ready
Randall Scott White, you are an actual musician which is really cool. I have written around 300 songs, but the vocals and music are a.i. generated. I actually only started on this journey in April of...
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“Sometimes it’s the very last line that makes a song timeless.
In You Move Backwards, I almost didn’t add the closing line: ‘And I am moving backwards.’
But that one simple phrase tied everything together — the love, the loss, the memory — and ended the song exactly where it needed to.
It reminded me t...
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Wyman Brent Beautiful!
I feel your words very well Wyman, it's very pretty.
Kat Spencer, thank you. I created five different versions of You Move Backwards. The first sounds like it could have been sung by Spandau Ballet. Here is a link to the version done as a ballad with fe...
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Koby Nguyen, thanks a lot. Here is the link to the original version I created.
https://wymanbrent.bandcamp.com/track/you-move-backwards...
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I created my BandCamp Wayman account. Thank you for introducing me to your music. I subscribed to you and maybe I will post my music on this application too.
Back in April, I didn’t even know I had this ability in me. Then came What the Mack? — the playful little song that opened the door to an entire creative world. Since then, I’ve been writing every single day, and the songs just keep flowing.
At first, most of them leaned into humor and quirkiness (...
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Today was one of those days where the songs just arrived.
Dancing Through My Mind came from a single phrase that popped into my head while walking through a parking lot. It turned into a heartfelt love song with zero revisions — it simply poured out.
Judge Mental was sparked by nothing more than a Yo...
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It's both for me, Wyman Brent. Sometimes my best work comes from inspiration I can trace, and sometimes the ideas appear without explanation.
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