Writing a weird song that doesn’t sound weird with Sunny Zaman

Sunny Zaman is a musician whose main passion is songwriting. He is also a singer and guitar and bass player who occasionally dabbles with keyboards and synths. He wrote his first song at the age of 14 and continues to follow his passion many decades later. While he plays mostly rock and pop, he has been occasionally known to push outside these boundaries.

Sunny shared the process behind his song Splonk. Download the lyrics here to follow along.

We talked about:

• how Sunny composes the music in his head before he touches an instrument
• Sunny’s first full-length album Jatras
• trying to retain the original idea for a song while developing it
• how your verse can serve the function of a bridge when you’ve only one verse
•  sub-consciously borrowing from your favourite artists and bands
• coming up with a title for your song when it’s not obvious
• releasing your album as an album or a series of singles
• how to grow your following on Soundcloud using Repost Exchange