Experiment with rhythm! A good melody often has a compelling rhythm. Play around with different rhythmic patterns to make your melody interesting and catchy!
Feautured Songbay Artist: ‘My Write’ (Brian Sluga) A professional subscriber to Songbay, another brilliant lyricist and poet. “I really started while on a work assignment in the UK three years ago. I was listening to a UK radio station and heard Jess Glynne and Ed Sheeran. It really made me thinking of writing my own tunes. I have written poetry for years and had thought I would give it a try. Songwriting is much like writing poetry which I’ve Continue
Feautured Songbay Artist: Sheree Shaw This week we take a look at the work of Sheree Shaw, a recent subscriber to Songbay and brilliant lyricist. “How did you get in to songwriting?” I used to love writing stories when I was younger, I had a great imagination! Then when i was about ten years old, I started singing and my stories turned to lyrics. It became a way for me to project my thoughts and it began to act as Continue
Feautured Songbay Artist: Emma Chute This week we take a look at the work of Emma Chute, a talented lyricist who has recently licensed her first lyric at Songbay “How did you get in to songwriting?” I think I have always been writing something. As a child, I would write short stories and I read poetry from a young age. The words of Kahil Gibran touched me. At school, we were asked to to make Poetry Anthologies. I won the prize for best Continue
Featured Songbay Artist: Alastair Creyke (No false Promise) “I have been a frustrated performer most of my life, but with no real musical ability apart from singing whenever I could and writing lyrics on any available scrap of paper, post it or beer mat I could find. I can’t read music, but taught myself to play guitar in the 90’s and started writing music to go with my lyrics. The words arrive and I just feel they need to go somewhere, a Continue
Songbay Review “We joined Songbay in March 2017 as completely unknown songwriters. We have already licensed two of our songs, and have had multiple collaboration and songwriting offers! Always willing to help, going above and beyond to answer our questions, the Songbayteam has been of great help to us on this daunting journey into the music industry. We would highly recommend Songbay to anyone who creates music! It has opened up a whole new world to us. – Jennie and Continue
Feautured Songbay Artist: Leigh Malin This week we pose a few questions to Songbay artist Leigh Malin – a brilliant songwriter, new to Songbay but already enjoying some serious successes with selling and collaborating. “How did you get into Songwriting”? “I started off playing trumpet at school when I was eight years old. My dad talked me into taking up saxophone at ten & I did five years of lessons with a peripatetic teacher. I wasn’t overly interested in the lessons, Continue
Feautured Songbay Artist: Mark Downey This week we feature the work of Songbay artist Mark Downey, an extremely talented lyricist and poet with a large selection of lyrics available for purchase at Songbay. Mark’s recent works focus on the ‘individual perspective’- ‘Everyday’ people dealing with ‘everyday’ life. In his own words: ” I’ve gone through a number of artistic formats over the years, from play-writing to poetry through most memorably for a few months, pottery. But writing, putting ideas into words, creating images and Continue
Feautured Songbay Artist Kristy C Mason This week we feature the work of Kristy C Mason, a gifted lyricist with a large selection of her work available for purchase at Songbay In her own words: “Writing has come to me naturally. I started out at a young age. With writing children story books and poetry. Writing is something I enjoy. It is relaxing, fun and entertaining. There are times I laugh at what I am writing, cry or completely happy. There Continue
