FEATURED Artist: This week’s featured artists: Viktoria Grant & Nicole Collins Are an exciting female songwriting partnership who have sold the copyrights to two of their instrumental songs at Songbay since joining this summer. “Nicole and I started to write songs when we were both 17. Studying together since middle school, we began writing songs in our last year of high school. We have always loved music and considered ourselves creative individuals. During our summer holidays we would dream of writing music and going Continue
Songwriting thought of the Day
Uneven Lyric Length
Have you thought about your lyric phrase lengths? The Golden rule- Keep things EVEN. Ninety percent of mainstream commercial pop music is written with four beats to each bar (4/4) time, meaning the music is divisible by 4. This needs to be considered when writing commercial pop lyrics. If you write consistent song sections-verses, chorus, bridges, etc, that are grouped into 4 or 8 lines, you are on the right track. If you write lyrics with sections containing odd phrase lengths, e.g., 3 lines, 5 lines, 7 lines, or phrases with notable uneven syllable lengths, etc, they will not work well rhythmically, and will almost always be overlooked by composers looking for lyrics. Here is a great article on this very subject >>
