Dec
12
Advice for Songwriters
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song·writ·er
According to Mirriam-Webster, a songwriter is: A person who composes words or music or both especially for popular songs
com.pos.er
They define composer as merely: A person who writers music
Isn’t is comforting to know that if you fail to achieve popular success as a songwriter, you can always fall back on being a composer?
In any case - if you would like to upgrade yourself to the exalted status of songwriter, here you will find a series of resources to help you on the way ->
www.musesmuse.com
Muses Muse offers great resources, such as articles on all aspects of sonwriting, singing and the music business. They can be found here.
Also, there is a section with interviews from popular songwriters here.
www.lyricalline.com
Lyrical Line features an impressive articles section here, a radio show here, and a section to submit your own songs here and here.
www.songwritersresourcenetwork.com
The Songwriters Resource Network provides some great tips and articles on the process of songwriting here.
www.sharemylyrics.com
Want to share you lyrics with others? Try this site.
www.songstuff.com
Song Stuff, incase you need information on any of the following: Songwriting, Lyric Writing, Music Business, Copywriting, Marketing, Promotion, Computer Recording, and Playing the drums, if that tickles your fancy. Also Interviews.
www.addicted-to-songwriting.com
Articles, tips, and interviews specifically about songwriting
www.irenejackson.com
Irene Jackson provides a number of articles on songwriting.
www.robinfrederick.com
Robin Frederick walks you through the different aspects of songwriting.
www.goodnightkiss.com
Articles? Articles.
www.bbc.co.uk
The BBC has some guides on songwriting - I recommend the ’starting out’ section.
www.craftofsongwriting.com
A handful of articles.
www.songlyricist.com
A small number of articles, but looks promising.
www.ultimatesongwriting.com
Provides some good information, though the site is somewhat difficult to navigate
www.lyricist.com
The site seems to have been dead for quite a few years, but it may be worth a look.
Well… If that doesn’t do the trick then you can always surf over to ezinearticles.com and type ’songwriting’ into the search box in the bottom left corner.
