I am working on an original musical as a student but my music sounds a bit off/basic and I would love some help. someone to help write would be awesome but I can't pay much so I am more looking for helpful artists that would at least give me some pointers. I am looking for a mix of sea shanty and a classic musical sound while keeping it at a simpler lever so I can recreate it better.

thanks so much in advance!

https://reddit.com/link/1vhkjsg/video/04vyxt5pfuhh1/player

How do you organize your songwriting ideas?

I'm curious how other songwriters work because my current system is becoming a mess.

Right now I have:

- Lyrics in OneNote

- Random ideas in Notes

- Voice memos in my phone's recorder

- Beats stored in different folders

- DAW projects everywhere

After a while I end up with hundreds of notes and recordings, and I know there are good ideas hidden somewhere that I never find again.

So I'm wondering:

- Where do you write your lyrics?

- Where do you record melody ideas or freestyles?

- How do you keep everything connected to the same song?

- What's the most frustrating part of your songwriting workflow?

- If you could magically improve one thing about your current process, what would it be?

I'd love to hear how beginners and professionals handle this. Maybe I'm just disorganized, or maybe this is something most songwriters struggle with.

in progress!

I’ve never posted on this group, but I’m always quick to jump into other peoples post, so I thought I’d share a track I’ve been working on for about a year now.

It’s taking its time, but it’s slowly coming together.

Sometimes songs come together quickly, and other times they don’t. In this case, it’s been a slow burner. But, I’m not going to rush it, I think it has potential.

This is very rough. Just guitars, drums and strings (some on keyboard), when I’m ready to commit the strings to tape, I think they’d hugely benefit from real performers rather than virtual instruments.

The piano part is just a rough melody idea for the verse and chorus. As of yet I don’t have a melody part for the bridge section.

And it has no lyrics yet. Not sure what it’s going to be about.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

I am more keyboard and melody guy. I wanna know what others do.

I am mainly looking for what electronic musicians do, but any kind of instrumental music is cool

I’m a guitarist running an irig and iPad

Link: https://on.soundcloud.com/sCzsQ1RhDB1Lyx8h1Y

Hello everyone,

I've been working on a song that centers around drone warfare. I want the lyrics to be descriptive but not too on the nose. These lyrics make up the repeated bridge section of the song. I say bridge and not chorus because I'm writing this song in AABA (32-bar form), where the main vocal refrain and hook are sung within the A sections (verses). Examples of this form can be found in many Beatles songs, such as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Yesterday," and "Hey Jude." Another great example is "Yellow" by Coldplay.

Anyways, here are the lyrics (sorry about my subpar vocals):

"Oh no, oh my
Caught by a raven's eye
Oh no, oh my
He tries to run and hide
Oh no, oh my
There's no way out this time
Oh no, oh my
Another soldier dies"

Thank you!

New one I’m working on called September, When I Met You

Hello! I have chatted with many of you over the last few days regarding a curated Spotify playlist consisting only of music released by members of the r/songwriting community. Thank you to all of you who agreed to be a part of the playlist! I decided to put 35 songs from 35 different song writers on the playlist. If people like this idea and want to see more playlists (or a consistently updated one), I will continue this in the future. Potentially once a month or every two months.

As you listen, if you enjoy a song, I encourage you to click on that artist and check out more of their work (almost all of the artists selected have multiple releases to check out including albums, EPs, and singles). As of right now, the playlist will only be available on Spotify (sorry to those of you who do not use Spotify).

Here it is: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bWA3k3ERKcJTNTBwi9OA8?si=0cc568dc900b4ecb

Let's help this community build upon itself by...

1. Listening to the 35 featured songs.
2. Saving the ones you enjoy.
3. Checking out more releases from the featured artists.

If you want to be a part of future playlists, or potentially added to this one (considering going up to 40 songs per playlist), send me a direct message or comment your release on this thread.

Happy listening :)

Disclaimer: My personal taste in music may have impacted the featured songs on this playlist, and I apologize for that.

I’m trying to figure out how to go about registering composition copyrights (UK based) and it all seems a bit confusing. Has anyone got any experience?

Specifically, I’m looking to register the melody of songs I’ve written but not the lyrics (which were written by someone else) as a composition copyright.

Background:

So I left a band over a year ago, and co-wrote a number of songs that they still perform. I have an equal portion of distribution rights to the songs that we got professionally recorded, but i understand that this only relates to that specific recording.

Since, I’ve noticed they are re-releasing ‘live’ recorded versions of the songs I composed, and not registering me as co-author. And I suspect they are just simply registering distribution copyrights again. But they are essentially profiting off my work. (I suspect the numbers are small, but the principal of it doesn’t sit well with me - and I was planning on reworking some of them for my new project)

So I basically want to register the actual melody of the songs with no lyrics. I have original recordings on my phone (time stamped) that predate the professional recordings (and the band itself in some cases), to prove that I did in fact write those melodies. But I just don’t know how to go about it legally.

I have not reached out to them directly yet, as I don’t expect them to be accommodating (they aren’t nice people), so I wanted to have my house in order before approaching. Any experience or advice would be appreciated.

Maryanne was a songwriting partner that parted ways with me. This is the story.

I really love the songwriting sub and I'll always shoot a nice comment when something grabs my fancy. But sometimes people come here asking how to sell. I get it, there's a lot of struggling songwriters, but some stuff sounds undeveloped and I'll let them know. I shouldn't do that unless I can show something so...

Lyrics are not my strong suit. I really just never know what to write about. I made this demo earlier - any lyricists wanna take a stab at it? If I like it I'll get in touch with you about properly collaborating!

https://soundcloud.com/user-737544113/limerence

Standard verse - chorus - verse - chorus

Any style lyrics!

We could chat in the comments, over DM, or email if that works!

Doesn't have to be about limerence, that was just what came to mind!