Improve your lyrics

New Service coming soon! Do you need some feedback/advice on your lyric? Writer’s block? Stuck on an arrangement idea, trying to get your  lyric to work with a particular melody? Need help developing or finishing a lyric? You will soon be able to get just this sort of help from our team of world class songwriters.

Avoid Cliché.

\"Avoid using cliché and overused rhymes where possible. \'Understand\'/ \'Man\' are
frequently rhymed together. Can you replace these with lesser-used rhymes?
Uncommon rhymes are more memorable and intriguing. The phrase ‘heart
and soul’ is also verging on cliché. \"

Chorus Issue

\"The chorus feels incomplete. Try experimenting with this. Possibly a six line
structure, with the latter three lines matching the first in both rhythm and rhyme
This would work better, particularly in your bridge/ middle section.\"

Backing Vocal Issue

\"The backing vocals are not in tune (consistently sharp) and are too prominent in the mix . Also, the choice of harmonies?? -for the second chorus, perhaps keep things simpler-try harmonising in 3\'rds and 6\'ths- If we can\'t quite discern the intervals being used, neither can the public!\"

Give Your Words Personality

\"Why not use \'personification\' in your opening line? Personification is a literary device which gives human characteristics to non-human objects- you can bring your objects to life! For example, in your opening verse, you state that the sky is dark. Why not say instead, “The sky weeps,”. This way you are giving the sky the ability to cry, which is a human quality. Your lyric will be so much stronger and draw your readers/ listeners in from the start!\"

Timing Issues

\"The bass drum and bass guitar rhythm are not synchronized, creating a somewhat \'lumpy\' groove. Further, the song is quite fast at 140 bpm. Currently it all sounds a bit busy.
Consider reworking the bass guitar pattern, or moving to a half time snare back beat groove in the chorus. Here\'s an example: *************\"

Word improvement suggestions

\"The chorus is an example of this inconsistency. The first half references the card game with
words such as ‘joker’ and ‘jack’. The second half doesn’t continue with the
theme until the last line, so feels flat compared to the first half. we recommend
using the metaphor to strengthen this section. Here’s an example you can use, it would be much stronger:
:**************************************************************************\"

Change your chords

\"We like strong chord progression on the Rhodes piano (bridge section). It would however, benefit further from some funkier chords -try adding some minor 9\'th and 13\'th chords- Here\'s a good tutorial to help you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJO-deB_xLM \"

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