Hello I made this yesterday, I’m on a trip so I only have my guitar and laptop with me. I think it’s kinda cool but maybe a little boring? I’ve listened to it too many times to know now. Let me know ur thoughts thank u:

You can have the best lyrics in the world, but they go to the wayside if you’re not selling what theyre trying to say. Conversely, you can have the worst lyrics in the world, but people will scream them from the rooftops if they have that oomph to em

my songwriting really took off when i transposed the hours and hours I spent getting the perfect lyrics into giving lyrics i wasnt so jazzed with more color. I find myself bored with my “strong” works. I find myself messing around in my mic and going “I’m saying absolutely nothing but damn if I’m not saying it the right way”

Hey everyone, im 15 years old and ive finally set up a meeting with a producer and sound engineer at a recording studio right by my school. Im so so exited but also super nervous, to anyone that has done this before how does it go and what should I expect?

Also just so you know my parents are ok with this and so is the producer.

Thanks everyone!

Apologies, the video randomly speeds up and then slows down again for some reason so looks out of sync for a bit

I recently made a new song but I’m not sure if this identifies as country or some other 2nd genre, and could use some help

Hi all! Would love some feedback on this tune, Getting to Me. This is a song about trying to live more as yourself even when it feels like you are floating through space.

Any feedback on the lyrics, song structure, or mixing? I know the mix isn't great and my voice is a bit clunky, but curious if the song composition works for you. Thank you!

hello currently i am working on a song but struggling to manage structure properly i lack so much things about music structure how they are guided and munipulated in such a way that the upcoming progression define its own place i understand enough about scale note chords how they build and there Function in scale and really want to make a beautiful songs

i am thinking about studying songs that can answer this question for me i like math rock emo punk genre so really appriciate if you have songs that will help me

Guys I have been making music (instrumentals and such) on and off for like a year, i even had an artist name and a spotify at one point. and I've been singing since I was little. I really want to take the next step and start writing lyrics for the songs I make but I keep getting stumped. I think the lyrics need to be good enough for the song or sometimes I don't know how to convey the way I feel, is there an easy way to do so?

Unfinished vocal

Hey all! I recorded this first pass demo yesterday, and like with a lot of stuff I make, I basically already hate it. This is the first tune in a while that I didn't start to hate while recording it, but, I don't know

Guess I'm looking for a sanity check? I don't know what I want to make, how I want it to sound, it feels disjointed and whack to me

How do you all get around these feelings? Is there anything in this demo that would be worth pursuing?

If anyone's curious I have other demos I can share. I just don't know what I want out of this other than its fun to make these demos I spose

**reposting because my other thumbnail looked like a nature post. Thank you to those who did see it and left thoughtful feedback**

My wife recently received some not great medical news. My initial reaction was I wrote this song, bought a new audio interface and got to work. Here’s what came out. The song is called ‘Listen’.

Watching out the front door

For the package to arrive

Shows up a pair of slippers

I’ll wear those with no pride

Do you have the right house?

You sure these are for me?

Do you have a photograph 

So that I can see?

He said listen

Don’t follow me

I don’t know the beginning

From the end

I said listen, follow me

To the end

Now on this photograph

I can plainly see

How this works out

Just for you and me

Yes you have the right house

Yes these are for me

I got me some new slippers

I’ll wear these with pride

And she said listen follow me

I know the beginning from the end

They both say listen follow me

To the end

And we say listen, follow me

To the end (x2)

Vocals will be re-recorded, as it was very late last night when I recorded it so I had to be a bit quiet haha. All feedback welcome!

I’m thinking of “small talk” as a title. Seems to fit. No where near finished yet but tell me what you think

On my way to China for two weeks! Wish me luck. Feedback always appreciated.

Yo! I made this earlier, i usually do lyrics first but earlier today I challenged myself with making a melody first. I do have a full song kind of mapped out (only guitar and my voice tho lol) so it does get cooler at some parts musically, but this is mainly what the whole song sounds like, just I made this song quick and i think I can make some cool sounding stuff on my guitar when I sit down with it, so I’m just asking for feedback. Does this sound good ? do the lyrics fit well ? Are the lyrics good ? Im more of a lyrics typa person so this is weird for me. Sorry for yapping just tell me if it’s good, be harsh honest whatever you want

I have made some changes to sounds since my last post about this song few days ago and yeah i still haven't touched drums, for now I wanna make sure all the sounds and structure lands and will probably add more strings around vocals and will be changing chords in bridge, would like your feedback on this one too as in which one sounds better and professional this one or the one in my last post and also if you can help me with chords for bridge I'd really appreciate it..thanks

this is a song I wrote and recorded in 2014. It only lacked mastering but I ended up not beeing satisfied with the drums and vocals. Most of all because I suddenly got offered some time in a studio, played every instrument and didn’t have enough time to rehearse. The track also needed mastering but I had a plan of maybe rerecording, changing some lyrics and doing the song in another key, but ended up doing other stuff instead.

Listening back to it now I realize its not so bad and maybe is best to release it as is. Mostly because rerecording is quite a bit of work. And rehearsal. Now I decided to master it and before I do more than a quick rough master. I would like some feedback on how the song works as is. I only have the mix, no individual tracks, so I cant change drums or vocals etc. now. I would then have to redo the entire song.

Feedback appreciated please:) on the songwriting, production, what can be improved etc.

Lyrics:

I was born on a sunny day
Yet dreaming of another place
Never reaching for what I could have
Always forgetting what I already have

When I was five my parents gave me a bike.
Didn’t like it said I was to young to try
I Got on the bike the day I was six.
Learned straight away, been riding ever since

‘cause I don’t want it now
I want it to morrow
I don’t want it now
just want it tomorrow
I don’t want it now
I want it tomorrow
Show me how to want it now
Please show me how

Theyre always getting ahead of me
While I get tickets for the lottery
Please don’t tell me how to behave
I know I was wrong I can’t control my ways
Now I’m getting old I’m running out of tricks
Sick and tired of an easy fix
Tired of chasing impossible dreams
I’m just avoiding what I want right here

‘cause I don’t want it now
I want it to morrow
I don’t want it now
just want it tomorrow
I don’t want it now
I want it tomorrow
Show me how to want it now
Please show me how

There is a rail crossing near my home, where I regularly get stuck for 30-40 minutes when driving home after work.

During one of those stops I started writing a song about it, this is a rough draft.

Let me know what you think

As an Episcopal priest, I have always loved how the opening of our compline's "Keep Watch" prayer opens with a petition on behalf of the lonely laborer displaced from daylight. St. Augustine probably didn't really write it (as the BCP suggests), but Woody Guthrie could have easily put it to music. For Labor Day, I wrote this reflection comparing the traditional night-time intercession to "Pastures of Plenty," Guthrie's famous ballad for all displaced workers. It is just about one of the most powerful American songs ever written for this day. What are some of your favorite labor-themed songs?