Songbay is proud to announce the launch of its new online music service. The service facilitates the buying, selling and licensing of music and lyrics of every genre and language. We would like to thank everyone involved in helping us reach this point and wish all our users the very best of luck with their songwriting/ song-searching! For more information please visit: http://songbay.co Songbayteam 🙂
Songwriting thought of the Day
Lyric Speed
Lyric Speed
Have you given thought about the tempo (speed) and the type of rhythm/ groove of the song that will work with your lyric?
So, when writing a lyric, at the outset, a lyricist should think how the words are going to work/interact with other instruments, singers, melodies, harmonies and rhythms, etc
It's important to have a clear idea: of the speed of the words, the style of music required, and if possible, a rough idea of the type of melody and a rough idea of the rhythm/groove emanating from the words.
It makes things much easier when pitching your work to songwriters looking for lyrics- “Hey, I’ve got the perfect lyric for your music, here’s why,,,,,” (you we really sound like you know your stuff!
If you haven’t thought about this - you might want to read this article: How to write the Perfect Lyric >>
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Quick overview of modes and how and when to use them The Ionian mode – Also known as the major scale. The dorian mode – Built on the second degree of the major scale, used over a minor family chord such as min6 or min13. A common chord progression would be a ii – V chord progression. The phrygian mode – Built on the third degree of the major scale, although minor by description, this mode is often used Continue
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We have had a highly successful first week of Beta testing our web service. The inevitable glitches have revealed themselves, so will be continuing in Beta mode for the next seven days. We will let you know as soon as we are happy. In the meantime, we continue to be very busy letting everyone know about the location of high quality original songs! Please have your best songs and artwork ready for submission to the Songbay Music Licensing library. Best Wishes, Continue
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Power of Pentatonic Scale –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gjreHt0tRI Musical artist Bobby McFerrin directs his audience in a demonstration of the power of the pentatonic scale at the event “Notes Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus” from the 2009 World Science Festival. Utterly Inspirational! Songbayteam
