HSD Essentials Subscriptions

EMPOWER YOURSELF

with interactive resources and tools that

support your creative process and help you compete at the highest levels.

In-depth analysis of chart-topping hits
Each comprehensive deconstruction is 100+ pages long
Segments are published every two weeks
Includes companion DAW Project (Logic)

Hit Song Deconstructions

A Library of 60+ Hit Songs Deconstructed Reports

The Hit Song Deconstructed reports provide unparalleled analysis of today's hits.

Each deconstruction breaks down a current hit to its foundational building blocks and pulls back the curtain on the patterns and science behind how the song was written, produced and arranged.

Leaving no stone unturned, everything is presented in a clear and concise manner and is complimented with unique Hit Songs Deconstructed visualizations that can be used to assess your own songs for strengths and weaknesses as well.

Among them are the HSD melodic parts tables and graphs, rhyme scheme tables, narrative structure tables, energy graphs, and more.

Each report is published in ten segments every two weeks, and analyzes structure, genres and sub-genre fusion, instruments and arrangement, energy and dynamics, vocal melody, vocal production, lyrics, and rhymes. The last segment features a top 10 benchmark and highlights the most important report takeaways.

By reading these deconstructions, you'll become privy to the same tools and techniques today's hitmakers are using.

The insight you'll gain will take your craft to the next level, guaranteed.

Downloadable DAWs

A visual roadmap for understanding how today's hits are arranged.

Every Hit Song Deconstruction includes a downloadable DAW project (Logic).

Using empty MIDI regions to visualize the instrumental arrangement, energy, vocal melody and production, structure, select techniques and more, these DAW projects provide you with a visual roadmap for understanding how today’s hits were effectively arranged.

By watching as you listen, you will gain valuable insight into the strategic decisions today’s hitmakers made to help prime their songs for maximum impact, giving you a host of new tools, techniques, and ideas to help take your own songs to the next level.

Hit Songs Deconstructed Techniques Library

New techniques delivered to your inbox every Tuesday
Select the songwriting technique you are looking for
Use additional filters such as date range, peak chart position, artist, songwriter and more to fine-tune your search
Choose a particular song that uses the technique to study
Techniques analyses include a detailed explanation of the technique, visualizations, and direct links to the sections of the song where the technique is being used so that you can hear it in action

A Searchable Database of Songwriting Techniques

Fuel your inspiration with the techniques that helped today’s most successful songs become global hits!

This extensive collection houses examples of the most effective techniques found in Hot 100 top 10 hits spanning various genres.

Every Tuesday, you’ll receive an expertly curated technique that has been deconstructed by the Hit Songs Deconstructed team to study. Each technique is accompanied by a detailed explanation, visual aids, and audio clips revealing the what, the why, and the how behind them.

It's the perfect way to continuously hone your craft and incorporate techniques from current chart-toppers into your own music.

Techniques include: Hook Techniques, Intro Techniques, Outro Techniques, Duet/Group Lead Vocal Structure Techniques, Audience Participation Moment Techniques, Energy Techniques, Section Impact Accentuator Techniques, Sub-Genre Fusion Techniques, Chorus Vocal Structure Techniques, Departure Section Techniques, Prosody Techniques, and Rhyme Techniques (with more technique categories to come!)

Hit Song Search

200+ filters to find the exact song you are looking for with the click of a button.

Need reference tracks? Mix and match 200+ compositional filters to find Hot 100 Top 10 songs with very specific compositional characteristics.

In addition, this tool can be used to:

See how your song stacks up against proven hits with similar compositional characteristics
Get insight for ways to take your song to the next level and/or give it a unique spin
Understand the space you are looking to compete in
Or simply get inspired!

Select your filters and click search
Select your song
Drill down to a dedicated page with key compositional characteristics, lyrics, Spotify links, the official video, and more