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Songwriting Challenges
Independent songwriters and music producers really miss out on the advantages gained by artists and songwriters through the songwriter and artist development activities within record labels and music publishers.
Within these activities songwriters, performers, artists and even producers will gain experience making them into more rounded artists, songwriters etc. They may collaborate, through songwriting camps, workshops or songwriting dates, or similar. The immediate aim might be to write a song or songs, and record a working demo for the song, but exposure to working with other writers, or writing towards certain songwriting goals will stretch the writer. Through this they are likely to be exposed to new writing techniques and ideas, different perspectives and often a lot of experience from sometimes a number of songwriters at a time. While “songwriting by committee” might not be everyone’s choice as authentic songwriting, it is a great way to accelerate writing skills. The same is true for producers, dancing a whole bunch of creative activities that labels and publishers might want to add to their client’s skills.
Indie have no such thing. While critique helps with this, it is mostly small, limited collaborations.
Cue our challenges. We try to vary challenges, the skills being tested and developed, the level of collaboration involved, the level to which the challenge might be taken, the breadth and focus of the aims and goals. They intentionally stretch those who participate. Challenges are just that. A challenge. They are fun, but they can be quite broad reaching
So come along, participate. Basic membership of Songstuff is free (currently, at the time of posting, all membership is free…. but we are soon introducing a paid subscription level on top of the free subscription) and challenge participation is free.
In challenges you primarily compete against yourself. We do sometimes introduce an element of competition, for fun and low level reward. Prizes, if they are offered, are not what this is about.
The more challenges you take part in, the more people we get to participate, the better…
We hope to see you there!
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