How to Write Music That Sounds Great Every Time
(Without Shooting in the Dark)
LOGAN GRiMÉ
Artist & Song Coach
Helping musicians write the best music they've ever written
- 25+ years writing, producing and releasing his own music
- 10M+ streams
- Coined the term "Underlick," now used by Grammy-winning songwriters
- Opened for Paul McCartney
Date: Thursday, November 12th
Time: 4PM PT / 7PM ET
Free Live Training · Limited Seats
You're guessing every time you write.
Maybe a song has come out great once or twice and you couldn't tell anyone why. Maybe it's never quite happened yet. Either way you sit down, try things, and hope this is the one. But songs that sound great aren't lucky. They're built on a few things you can learn.
I'll show you what those are, so you stop guessing.
You keep fixing it in the production.
New plugin, new sound, another pass at the mix. It gets more polished, but it doesn't get better, and you can feel that something's still missing. Most of the time it's not the sound. It's the song underneath it.
You'll see why the song comes first, and what to look for in yours.
You don't have hours a day for this.
You've got a job, a life, people who need you. Somewhere along the way you decided that writing great music means grinding at it for hours, so it keeps getting pushed to someday. But it doesn't take more time. It takes knowing where to put the time you've got.
Whether you've been at this two months or twenty years, this will work for you.
You've been doing all of this by yourself.
Nobody around you can tell you why a song works or why it doesn't. You play it for friends and they say it's cool, which doesn't help you make the next one better. That isn't a talent problem. It's what happens when there's nobody on the other side of it.
That's the thing I actually do, and you'll see exactly what it looks like.
You don't need a better mix.
You don't need more gear.
You don't need more time.
You need someone who can show you why the great songs work.
#1 Why some songs sound great, and how to make it happen on purpose.
Great songs aren't lucky. They're written to be remembered and easy to sing along to. They stick to patterns instead of going all over the place, and their lyrics go places emotionally that most people won't go. You'll see what the greatest songs have in common, so you can use it on purpose.
#2 Why the song matters more than the production.
Production can't fix a song that wasn't working from the start. It just turns up what's already there, and that's how you end up with a polished turd. But when the song is strong, you need less production, and sometimes none at all. Most people get this backwards because they make music on a computer, so they jump into production before they've ever worked on the song.
#3 Why almost nobody figures this out alone.
When someone finally gets guided, they notice something they never paid attention to: their process has no structure, and they've been writing without really knowing what they're doing. It isn't complicated. Once you know what works in great songs, and why, you can do it on purpose, just like the people who wrote them.
MEET LOGAN!
- 100+ of his own songs out in the world
- Signed, toured and sold out shows with his band
- Sync placements in commercials and TV
- Thousands of songwriters use his checklist
Logan has been writing, recording and putting his own music out for twenty-five years. Along the way he got obsessed with why some songs stick with you forever and others disappear, and he spent years breaking that down until he could see it.
But the reason he does this particular thing is older than all of it. His dad wrote incredible songs and never finished and released a single one of them. Boxes of tapes, pages of them, and not one that ever made it out into the world. He was the most talented guy in any room he ever walked into, and he never had anybody sitting across from him telling him that today was the day.
That's the job Logan took.