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:
Special Guest Writer to Songbay Gary Ewer This month we are honored to receive a a fantastic article written for us by Gary Ewer, a true Songwriting Advice expert. Gary is a former senior instructor in the Dalhousie University Dept. of Music, Halifax, Canada. He is a composer, arranger, conductor and music clinician and regarded as one of the foremost authorities on the art of modern songwriting. He is the author of “Beating Songwriter’s Block: Jump-Start Your Words and Music”, as well Continue
Feautured Songbay Artist: Amanda Palasciano Another brilliant lyricist finds Songbay This week, we talk to Amanda Palasciano, a Professional subscriber to Songbay. Already an established writer and lyricist, she is now busy in Nashville! “How did you get in to songwriting/lyric writing?” My grandfather—who I never met—was a “crooner” in New York. He had an album out, or ’45’ as it was known in the day (I just snagged that album on Ebay!) My Dad also sang, he Continue
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
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