Songwriting Challenge 2022: Listener Songs Volume 2

On this special episode, we share the second batch (of three) of listener answers to our 2022 songwriting challenge to write a song with the title Why Do You Cry?

We talked about:

• The Music Theory Iceberg video
• Best Free DAWs for Windows video
• Tunebat: Song Key & BPM Finder app
• varying your arrangement of melodies, lyrics, and chords
• ensuring your verse 2 moves the song forward
• protest songs: two different approaches
• progressive music, and balancing complexity with simplicity

Download the lyrics for the songs:

• Lynne Moe – Why Do You Cry?
• Gilbert Neal – Why Do You Cry?
• Mark Ippolito – Why Do I Cry?