The document provides guidelines for writing instrumental guitar songs, focusing on choosing scales, constructing simple basslines and chord progressions, and techniques for melodic development. It recommends starting with a scale like D major, then creating a bassline using only half notes on root and fifth notes. Chord progressions should use diatonic seventh chords, starting with a I major seventh, then a ii minor seventh, resolving to a V major seventh. Melodies can be built by removing notes from chords like the fifth or seventh, and using techniques like octaves, bends and harmonics. Keeping arrangements simple allows for more melodic and transformable sounds.