Six Ways To See If Your Song Is Ready  POSTED by CLIFF  Introduction One of the big decisions that we, as songwriters, have to make is whether or not one of our songs is ready for a professional demo.  In other words, is our song good enough to warrant spending the money and time necessary to make a high-quality recording? While our instinct may be to love all of our songs equally, the reality is that some of our songs are simply Continue

There is one unfortunate event that is all but certain to happen to any songwriter: the dreaded writer’s block. The nuisance of writer’s block, a helpless frustration that can last days or even weeks on end, will leave you staring at your blank notebook or computer screen wanting to pull your hair out. So what causes writer’s block? Well, this inability to tap into your creative drive isn’t likely due to one specific thing, but rather a culmination of number Continue

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