Artist Feature: Sanjay Yadav Sanjay Singh Yadav is an India-based songwriter notable for his affectionate and fun-loving composition ‘Never Love a Woman’ (http://www.songbay.co//view-lyric/1794/). The lyric grabbed the semi-final slot in the prestigious UK Songwriting Contest 2013. The following year, 2014, Yadav again hit the semi-final spot, this time with the lyric ‘To None Ever Bound’. The UK Songwriting Contest draws participants from all around the world. Its panel of judges consists of leading names in the international music industry. Songwriters are often associated with the archetypal ‘Bohemian’ lifestyle, Continue
Songwriting thought of the Day
Rhyming thought of the day!
Rhyming
Ninety percent of lyrics rhyme. Most people expect lyrics to rhyme. If your lyrics do not rhyme, is this intentional? As a songwriter, might you be narrowing your potential market without the use of rhyming devices?
Don't forget,,,Songbay has a fantastic rhyming dictionary, an 'alternate word' finder, an adjective finder, and 'related word' feature built into the user dashboard. It's called the 'Lyric Composer' and it makes the creative process of writing lyrics much easier!
The Lyric Composer
Introduction While there isn’t an official songwriting rulebook, there are quite a few tried and true songwriting conventions that over time have essentially become rules. In almost all instances, these “rules” are there because they tend to make songs more commercial or catchy or both. That being said, breaking these rules can be a very effective tool assuming it’s done with the full understanding that you are doing so. In other words breaking the rules by accident doesn’t count and Continue
Posted by Jessica Brandon on Tue, Feb 10, 2015 @ 01:44 PM REPETITION, REPETITION, REPETITIONby Harriet SchockEdna St. Vincent Millay once said “Life is not one damned thing after another; it’s the same damned thing over and over.” In songwriting, it may seem as if the same damned thing over and over is not only permissible but called for these days. However when it gets to the point of torture, it might be best to change the melodic phrase. And maybe Continue
Posted by Jessica Brandon on Wed, Apr 23, 2014 @ 11:26 AM Tools For The Songwriter: Audio In The Land Of The FreeBy Eleanor Goldfield Get your songwriting rig started for nothingThere may be no such thing as a free lunch, but believe it or not, there is such a thing as free audio software. For those of you looking to get into demoing, writing, or simply laying down ideas in your own studio setup, this land of the free has some Continue
If you look at some of pop music’s greatest melodies — and by “pop” I mean the broader definition of anything written in the past century that was meant to appeal to the masses — you’ll find that repetition of ideas appears to be the most important feature. When repetition is rampant within a melody, we might call it an earworm melody – something that gets in our heads and stays there, repeating itself in (often) an annoying sort Continue
