5 Songwriting Virtues That Are Older Than the English Language By Nicholas Tozier One of the toughest things about writing songs is knowing how to judge your own work. How do you know when you’ve written a good song? How do you know when a song needs rewriting? The answers are never simple. Any given song has dozens of moving parts: melody, rhyme scheme, song structure, chord progressions, lyric content—it goes on and on. There are dozens of different ways to Continue

Four Useful Ways To Be Original Introduction A career in songwriting is a long road where the actual big “payoff” moments – if you’re fortunate enough to have some – are few and far between for even the most successful writers. This is all the more reason to take the time and challenge yourself to find what’s unique about your own songwriting. The more original your songs are the greater the likelihood that you’ll get the right attention but, more Continue

  Hello from Songbay HQ! Our upgrade is now in full swing.  Users will already notice many improvements to our functionality. The first stage of our upgrade will be finished by the end of Febuary 2014 with the second stage completing May 2014 Here’s a few upgrade examples: Improved search functions so that buyers can more easily find suitable songs or lyrics The removal of any broken play links. Expanded social networking quick links to users material, including embedding options Continue

Score4all Songwriting competition   Congratulations to Elliot Harrison Beese -Winner of the Score4All Songwriting competition 2013 sponsored by Songbay Well Done to runner up Tom Benson Special commendation to finalists Peter Stokoe and Josh Sercombe The Competition Was organised by a team of  music degree students from Gateshead College. As part of their BA (Hons) course in music,  the team devised an on-line music writing competition for songwriters. Participants were required to compose a piece of original music to accompany a short promotional video for a local Continue

Hi all. Just a quick update from us. Its been a hectic few weeks at Songbay HQ. We’ve  been busy launching our upgrade  whilst seeking  new outlets for our users. We have some exciting collaborations in the pipeline which will give songwriters and lyricists even greater exposure.  We  continue to make friends with new users -both sellers and buyers (at the rate of one every 4 hours!) We are always looking to improve our service, in the last year we’ve Continue

In the desire to make Songbay more inclusive and to tap into the creative experience of our users, we will be regularly inviting Songbay songwriters, lyricists and buyers to contribute articles to our blog. This Month we are honoured to present  an article written by Anthony Martin. Anthony has a diverse career spanning art, horticulture and music. For the last five years he  has been dividing his time between teaching music performance and theory with the selling of  his original Continue

Musicality Wake up call! Musical expression has  always fascinated me throughout my career as a session musician and teacher. On one of my first recording sessions, straight out of music college (Trinity College of Music, London), I overheard the  MD/Producer talking to the string section-  ‘Nice feel, but more musicality please at bar,,,”. At that time, I didn’t really know what he meant and worryingly for me (about to overdub some percussion), how I was supposed to implement it should he say the Continue

Songwriting Competition open to all Songbay Users.   One of our Songbay users- Mike Lea Jones http://www.songbay.co/artists/844/  has asked us if we would mention this to Songbay users. Mike is an incredibly talented music student in his second year of a music degree course in Newcastle, UK. One of the modules requires the music students to organise and promote a Songwriting competition. We will  help with contributing to the organisational costs of the event and by awarding free Songbay subscriptions to Continue