Feautured Songbay Artist Rachel M Starr This week we interview Rachel Star. Although relatively new to the art of lyric writing, she is already a popular artist on Songbay and clearly very talented. How did you get in to songwriting? “I started writing lyrics about six months ago as a creative outlet. I was going through a really tough time after my Mum passed away and needed to channel my energy into something positive. Now that I’ve started I couldn’t stop if I wanted Continue
Songwriting thought of the Day
Is your lyric structured correctly?
Lyrics are designed to work with songs, therefore your lyric needs to have a song structure. Are you completely familar with song structures? For commercial, pop, country, rock, soul, hip hop songs, you need to have clearly defined sections. This is the most common song structure:
- Verse 1
- Chorus
- Verse 2
- Chorus
- Bridge
- Chorus
Featured Article from Songbay Artist Justine Perry This week we are pleased to publish an article from Justine Perry. Justine is a talented lyricist and writer who has been a Songbay subscriber for over two years. She has been a popular artist on Songbay and during this time, has had several lyrics commissioned and licensed. She has also received several collaborative work offers. Justine also writes blog articles about lyric writing, creative writing and the music business. “Fight Song: What All Songwriters Can Learn From Rachel Platten’sSuccess… By Continue
Collaboration is working well at Songbay ‘Coincidence or Fate’? PEACE Music and Video by Daniel Hall We recently published an article on our user-Daniel Hall. In it Daniel explained how within only one day of subscribing to Songbay he’d received a message from a female vocalist asking if he was interested in a collaboration project. Daniel is based in Australia and the collaborator -Janne Villaflora from the Philippines. As Daniel explained: “I was working on a track called “Peace” and thought to myself Continue
FEATURED Artist: This week’s featured artist: Daniel Hall Daniel is a musician, lyricist, songwriter and designer based in Sydney, Australia. A prolific songwriter, he specialises in contemporary, pop, electro, house and new wave music. He has a reputation for writing beautifully well crafted pop songs with catchy melodies, strong chord progressions, poignant lyrics and stunning audio/visual production techniques. It is clear he has been influenced by and continues to build upon the work of the greats of these genres – Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Beloved, The Presets, Camouflage, Continue
FEATURED Artist: This week’s featured artists: Viktoria Grant & Nicole Collins Are an exciting female songwriting partnership who have sold the copyrights to two of their instrumental songs at Songbay since joining this summer. “Nicole and I started to write songs when we were both 17. Studying together since middle school, we began writing songs in our last year of high school. We have always loved music and considered ourselves creative individuals. During our summer holidays we would dream of writing music and going Continue
FEATURED Artist: This week’s featured artist: Justine Perry A brilliant young lyricist who has already had her lyrics commissioned and licensed at Songbay “I grew up in Devon (UK.) I started writing lyrics at a young age. At eighteen, I studied music theory. Although I often write full songs, lyric writing remains my passion. I enjoy working in collaboration. I moved to Falmouth (Cornwall) in 2010 to study music composition at university. I graduated in July 2013 and I currently live Continue
FEATURED Artist: This week’s featured artist: Alysia Lembkey A brilliant lyricist, adept in using professional lyric writing techniques such as metaphor, alliteration and personification. Take a look at Alysia’s Lyric selection on Songbay. All are available for purchase and can then be used in your own productions. Perhaps you would like to collaborate/work with her or have her custom write lyrics for you? If so, feel free to make contact directly using the links provided on her artist page at Songbay. An example from one Continue
Featured Artist This week’s featured artist: Kamali Kasumu A master of catchy commercial hits, gorgeous multi layered complex vocals, which derive from a thorough grasp of gospel and R & B. Have a look at Kamali’s Song selection on Songbay. All are available for purchase and can then be re-recorded, re-aranged or used as they are in your own productions. Perhaps you would like to collaborate/work with him or have him custom write a song for you? If so, free Continue
