I’m a lyricist who has been wanting to get down to business forever but before anything check out my lyrics – marie rava aka china or my youtube also my name marie rava I wrote and did the videos the music is youtubes. thank you. china [hr] damn straight I held my life back for a long time and nothing is stopping me now when I say nothing I mean that I going down doing my thing.
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 >>
