Songwriting

Songwriting Start To Finish

Songwriting is an art and a skill that can require input to complete lyric writing, orchestrate, develop themes, hooks, bridges record and finish your project.

Song Co-writing

Working with a song idea can require outside input. If you have a lyric or a lyric with just a vocal track I can work with your ideas to develop verses, bridges choruses, harmonies and all the surrounding bed tracks to make it into a song. I have included an example of just that: one of my young students artists came to me with lyrics and an smartphone vocal with no instrumentation at all that we developed first into piano segments. Once she was happy with what I had come up with I developed full band bed tracks with an intro, verses, a chorus with a catchy hook melody, a bridge and ending. This will show you the process of not only how I work, but how I worked to develop a song that represents the feeling that you had when you originally wrote the lyrics and the original melody.

Recording

If your song is ready to record my studio is a 18 channel studio recording at 24 bit 96khz with digital effects to mix down and prepare for any medium.

Orchestrating

As a skilled arranger and orchestrator familiar with all styles of music I can help develop music for your ideas.

Video

Once your song is finished a video should be shot so it can be released on social media for exposure. This is now the way music is marketed. Period. Your song could take off and/or could be noticed by an artist looking for new material for their upcoming album project.

Protection

I am a member of the Songwriters Association of Canada. It only costs $50/yr to join, then $15 registration and $5/song to register it for protection in the SOCAN songwriters vault. You can also copywrite it with the Government of Canada for another $50.

Songwriting Co-writing Example

This song came to me from my piano/vocal student Elizabeth Studt early last summer. She was 16 and had been taking piano lessons since she was 12 but had only been taking vocal lessons for a short time. She literally slipped a page of lyrics on my desktop and emailed me this song with no backup from a smartphone. I am going to show you every step so you can see how it was put together. Here's the original lyrics and the voice clip.