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
Uneven Lyric Length
Have you thought about your lyric phrase lengths? The Golden rule- Keep things EVEN. Ninety percent of mainstream commercial pop music is written with four beats to each bar (4/4) time, meaning the music is divisible by 4. This needs to be considered when writing commercial pop lyrics. If you write consistent song sections-verses, chorus, bridges, etc, that are grouped into 4 or 8 lines, you are on the right track. If you write lyrics with sections containing odd phrase lengths, e.g., 3 lines, 5 lines, 7 lines, or phrases with notable uneven syllable lengths, etc, they will not work well rhythmically, and will almost always be overlooked by composers looking for lyrics. Here is a great article on this very subject >>
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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
A company ‘ScoreAHit’ have come up with a system for working out which songs are more likely to ‘make it’ in the charts, and also to identify the features which make up the perfect hit. Does a hit have to be: Energetic? Danceable? A certain Tempo or Duration? Do these optimal features change through time? They have a unique Hit Equation page to reach a conclusion and a Live Predictions page to see their own predictions for this week’s UK chart!! They even Continue
At Songbay we often receive specific scenario/film briefs from producers looking to source music. Here’s one such example: “There are several characters (people) all trying to reach a destination within the same time frame, we need the music to mirror this”. What musical devices could we use to tackle this brief? We could: Use polyphonic texture to portray the complex nature of the setting. (***Can you write in Polyphonic style*****??). Use Polyrhythms to further support the sense of multi speed/time travel. If you have a firm grasp Continue
