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
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 >>
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
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
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
