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Songstuff Is 10 Years Old Today!

First online on 29th November 2000, the first 10 years has flown by. It's a decade that has seen massive changes in the music industry with the rise in music downloads and a global recession. It's also been a decade that's been one of the most innovative regarding changes in the way artists engage with fans, with the way music is marketed and sold, and lets not forget within the music itself. Not only that but music has become a far more interactive, multimedia experience. Music videos are

john

Musicians are 3 times More Likely to Suffer from Depression

In a recent study conducted by the University of Westminster, it has been found that there is crisis in mental health within the U.K. music industry that is at alarming levels. The study, “Can Music Make You Sick” was commissioned by Help Musicians UK. It looks at how having a career in the music industry impacts upon the mental health of musicians.   2,211 musicians took part in the study. Researchers Sally-Anne Gross and Dr. George Musgrave revealed that 71.1% of musicians have suffe

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Summer Meeting Cancelled

Due to a variety of reasons we have taken the decision to cancel the site Summer Meeting, scheduled for 22nd to 24th August 2008. There were too few actual Songstuffers who were going to attend and svereal who were uncertain. This on it's own makes the event unviable in the form it was going to take place. We will learn from this experience by consulting with members so that if we consider further events we can take that into account. One possibility that has been suggested is the

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The Pentatonic Scale And The Human Brain.

The Pentatonic Scale is something that almost every musician would have learnt in their early days. No matter the genre, the Pentatonic Scale proves to be a very powerful tool in improvising solos. Even though less is known about how the human brain interprets music, it's been observed that it responds to recognizable patterns such as the Pentatonic quite instinctively. Jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin demonstrated this theory at the World Science Festival in 2009 when he participated in a talk

Mahesh

Youtube Subscription Service - Launch Iminent, Warnings Of Takedowns

YouTube have confirmed that the launch of their new subscription service is very close, but at the same time they are in the process of removing some of the biggest indie label acts. YouTube and several indie labels have failed to agree on the royalty terms covering the new YouTube subscription service. These terms are in addition to the terms already covering its free service. Here we go. Again. The payment dispute between YouTube and indie labels is threatening acts like Adele a

john

Announcing Songstuff's Brand New Chat-box System!

Hello Fellow Songstuffers! We hope that your quarantine during this pandemic has been productive and peaceful. We’ve been working away to bring you a better forum experience, more free content, and some exciting products!   To start with, Team Songstuff is happy to introduce to our forum community the brand new and advanced chatbox system.     The addition of this ‘social media’esque tool opens up to our members a vast range of uses and advantages from organi

Mahesh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Get Involved and grow your fan following through Songstuff Independent Music Stage!

We’re proud to have served the indie music community through Songstuff for 20 years now.     Our main domain songstuff.com has been a hub for independent musicians and aspiring music professionals to expand their knowledge and experience through articles, tutorials, educational content, and an extremely diverse and huge forum community. But we believe we can do a lot more!     Introducing....   Songstuff Independent Music Stage is a brand new i

Mahesh in 2020

Lyrics Challenge Ballad #1 WInner - Amy Abernathy

"You Rocked The Country" by Amy Abernathy, @ames1212   Amy's piece was selected as the closest to the initial challenge brief. Well done Amy and congratulations!   Read Amy's entry and an interview with her by following the link below: Ballad Challenge #1 Winner Amy Abernathy   To everyone else who took part, many many thanks for getting involved. There were some great lyrics contributed, covering a range of genres. It was great to see your lyrics evolve, tryi

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New Article - Fan Engagement

Fan Engagement Keeping it fresh while engaging your fans isn't straight forwards. At least that's the what many artists tell us. They start a band blog and pretty quickly run out of interesting things to say. They write the odd interesting post, but most posts are boring as hell, or barely related to their band and their music. More common still is their blog just dries up. So what could they do? Have no fear Songstuffers! We've collected 15 excellent ideas to help you engage your fans

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Stop And Listen!

The world has become such a busy place. Deadlines, schedules, priorities, it's never ending. In such a time, we tend to overlook things that would have made the biggest difference in our lives. Washington Post conducted an experiment that went on to prove this very point. It was in January 2007 when Joshua Bell , a violinist, performed a few classical pieces on the Washington D.C Subway as he stood there, incognito. Most of the passersby hurried on without noticing the rare event that

Mahesh

Music Collaboration On Songstuff

Collaborate on Songstuff, bringing lyricists, songwriters, musicians, recording engineers, and producers covering many styles of music. Come along and take part! Join our general Collaboration Group and keep up to date with collaboration projects, create your own collaboration group. Each group provides you: your own forum your own web pages your own communication tools to allow you to easily communicate with your chosen collaborators!

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Weekly Playlist!

Hi everybody!   Yesterday a new Soundcloud playlist was published! In the first part of the track different tracks in "modern" vibe were included (rock, dark-pop, electronica, progressive metal, etc...) , whilst in the second half you'll be able to find more folky/country/singer-sonwriter tasting songs,  together with a couple of very nice electronic and ambient tracks.   This week, forum members @Steve Mueske, @SteveA and @Mahesh were included!   I hope you can enj

Michan

New Article - A New Perspective On Writing Lyrics

A New Perspective on Writing Lyrics Starting to write a song can be a tricky business. This article explores approaching the song with the big picture in mind armed with a clear idea of what the song is trying to say, and where it is going. This can all be achieved by asking yourself three key questions when writing a song Read the article now.... A New Perspective on Writing Lyrics Comments Please leave a comment! => Please leave Anthony some comment

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Songstuff Channel Trailer

The Songstuff Channel on YouTube     Help us to help independent artists, songwriters and musicians!   Please subscribe to our channel, and please share our post and/or trailer in case you know any musicians that would be interested in our community or benefit from our site, and of course like and comment on the trailer!

john in 2022

New Article - Song Building Blocks

Song Building Blocks Songs use a number of common sections. These sections are the building blocks of songs. When discussing song form these sections are assigned letters as labels, but you will be more familiar with their names such as verse, chorus and bridge. This article looks at the common sections, what defines them, and how those sections work together to form a working, popular song. Read "Song Building Blocks" now. Comments Please leave some comments an

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New Article - Amphitheatres

High Pass Filters Are amphitheatres the original high pass filters? Graeme Young takes a look at ampitheatres, psychoacoustics and digital signal processing to complete the link from ancient Greek amphitheatres thrrough to modern day recording and live performance. Ampitheaters Graeme's Site Crew Profile Graeme's Community Profile

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20 Reasons Why Music Forums Are Better For Songwriters, Bands And Producers Than Other Social Media

Modern social media is not ideal for many uses. This is especially true for bands and artists. From individual posts being missed and content you are interested in being buried beneath a pile of posts that you are not interested in, through a lack of people with suitable knowledge and skills, to not being able to find a vital piece of information posted 2 weeks ago and the lack of moderation making communicating frustrating, there's a long list of the shortcomings of modern social media.  

john in 2023

A Guide To Song Forms – AAA Song Form

Following up on the previous blog post about song form overview, let us dive deeper into one of the most basic songforms used in popular music - strophic songform.   The strophic song form may also be referred to as the "AAA" songform or the One-Part songform. This means to say that the various sections of the song would follow a common theme or structure throughout. Many classical songs from the 17th century follow this structure though t

Mahesh

Roflcopter - New Staff Member!

Rob Hoogers (board member Roflcopter) has joined the site staff as a designer and developer. He brings a lot of experience with web technology and a very creative mind to the role. As such Rob will be producing some tutorials on making videos, plus the development of some excellent free tools/services that we hope to provide in the near future. You can find out more about Rob Here: Roflcopter Please join me in welcoming him to his new role! (apologies to Rob and everyone else

john

New Moderators

Please join me in welcoming 3 new moderators to our boards! Long term Songstuff forum members Lazz, Chokai and FinnArild have all taken on moderation of specific critique categories: Lazz - Jazz Chokai - Electronica FinnArild - Rock and Metal Each of these board members brings a lot of experience to the boards. Each is involved in running a record label and each of them are still very active musicians with albums available on and offline.

john

How To Restring Your Guitar

Knowing how to restring your guitar is a very very important skill to learn when starting out as a guitarist. Budding musicians sometimes neglect the maintenance part of the learning and head straight to the playing. A sign of a true guitarist maybe seen in the way he handles and takes care of his/her instrument.    Guitar strings need to be replaced periodically especially if you perform regularly on stage. Though some may find that state

Mahesh

Donna Dahl Joins Songstuff Writers

Please welcome Donna Dahl as a new contributer to our drumming sub-site. Donna is drummer and a singer/songwriter. In recent times she has returned to the study of her first love, drums. Dahl is currently involved in teaching drums, recording and composing, appearing live most often as a singing drummer and singer/songwriter with Thorny Swale, a blend of Twin Cities and Wisconsin players. Dahl sings regularly with the St. Augustine Latin Mass Choir of South St. Paul, Mn and is a member of M

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Featured Artist - Dave Bradley

Dave Bradley is a science journalist by day, but by night he's Cambridge's most wannabe singer-songwriter rockstar. Dave has played guitar for four decades or thereabouts and writes and performs acoustic and electric in a range of styles and has been likened to a range of artists, including Glenn Tilbrook, David Bowie and James Taylor, which is very flattering to him, of course, but he really is just a Geordie chancer with a loud shirt and six string...   Click through and support!

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