What Happened, Why, and Where the Music Business is Going Part II
In my last blog, we took a brief trip through the fifties and sixties and the events that drastically changed the music business for songwriters, publishers, artists and record companies. The main villain in this scenario was corporate thinking. Doing away with the single record, only signing singer/songwriters, and the cost associated with recording albums […]
What Happened, Why, and Where the Music Business is Going
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The Rules of the Road if you want to be a Hit Songwriter
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If you contribute to a musical track, should you be a co-writer on a song?
We partnered with the folks at Fictionary, ProWritingAid and other writing companies to provide you with the best Black Friday offers for writers. Whether you are outlining, writing, editing, marketing, or publishing, there is something for you. Most of these deals are for a limited time only (and some don’t begin until Black Friday or […]
What’s more important, the melody or the lyric?
Some people think melody rules and others think it’s the lyrics and there are strong arguments that support both beliefs. I’ve been a songwriter all of my life and I am privileged to have been able to do what I love most and to be successful at it. I would have to say that melody […]
Learning How to Write Songs
Learning how to write songs is not unlike learning how to play an instrument. The difference is, you have a teacher when you’re learning to play an instrument and you don’t have one when you’re learning to write songs. Almost anyone can learn to play an instrument, but not everyone can learn to write a […]
The Ten Commandments of Songwriting
See the Ten Commandments of Songwriting according to Barry DeVorzon, a Grammy winning songwriter and President of MasterWriter.
Can a melody created by artificial intelligence be copyrighted?
Damien Riehl and his partner Noah Rubin seem to think so. Damien Riehl is an attorney and self-described musician/songwriter and Noah Rubin is a programmer and self-described musician/songwriter. They created a program and an algorithm that they claim has written every melody possible. They further claim that since they put this vast amount of information […]
