This year’s Song Academy Young Songwriter competition attracted nearly 1,000 entries from aspiring young songwriters aged 8-18 across the world, both experienced young songwriters and those who’ve written their first song. The judges were extremely impressed with the originality, creativity & musical bravery of the songs. We interviewed each of the finalists to get to […]
PRESS RELEASE SAYS23 Star Judges include Fraser T Smith, Amy Wadge, Calum Scott, Plested, Miranda Cooper, GRACEY, Eg White, Jimmy Napes, Emily Phillips, Hannah V, Sodajerker, Sacha Skarbek, Dan Gillespie Sells, Janet Devlin & Simon Aldred. Drumroll please! The top 30 songs of the hotly contested Song Academy Young Songwriter 2023 competition, in its 13th year, have […]
At Song Academy we use interesting songwriting briefs for our aspiring young songwriters to spark ideas for new songs. Here are some ideas for starting new songs both starting with lyrics and starting with music. Ideas for starting lyrically Start from thinking about what’s important to you – certain people, social movements, events, activities, […]
Calling all young people who love music, singing & writing lyrics! Join our songwriting workshops during the Christmas holidays. It’s a perfect opportunity, in a condensed time frame, to write an original song with professional songwriters. Groups for beginner to advanced young songwriters aged 8-18. Get creative & express yourself! Our holiday songwriting workshops are […]
Never written a song before? Here are some easy steps to get started! STEP 1 Create a strong concept for your song & engaging title First work out what style of song you’d like to write. Listen to some songs in different genres to get a feel of what style of song and topics you […]
As a songwriter, learning how to record and produce your own songs is a great skill to have. Here are some examples of home studio setups, with 1 being the most simple and 5 being the most complex. Home Studio Setups The most simple – recording yourself performing your song using either the voice memo app […]
When we use rhyme in writing song lyrics, it helps to keep a rhyme scheme in mind. Rhyme helps give a song a sense of structure and make lines more memorable and catchy. You may have already studied rhyme schemes in school, but let’s do a quick recap. Look at the lines below: Twinkle twinkle […]
Can you turn a poem into a song? Poetry and songwriting are very closely connected – in fact, many songwriters have stated that they started out writing poems before they wrote songs, and those poems became the basis for their lyrics. So what do a poem and a song have in common? Both make use […]
The aim of our spotlights on different song genres is to make it easy for Music teachers to bring to life the different contemporary music styles. In addition, for English teachers to have the knowledge and a great instrumental track for pupils to write song lyrics in a style of music they choose. Soul originated […]
