A lot of digital marketers have a social media speciality. Mine’s Instagram. I LOVE INSTAGRAM. Whether my timeline is filled with my friends looking BOMB in selfies; perfectly curated aesthetic travel bloggers or pictures of my favourite musicians/actors chilling in their widely expensive homes, I just love it! It does have its downsides though, filters,Continue reading “Making Your Instagram”
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Brand Voice: What it is and How to Make One
Before we can create our social media pages, there are a few things to that we need to consider first. First of all we need to decide on our brand voice. So… what is a Brand Voice? A brand voice is how you want to sound to your audience. The way you word your captions,Continue reading “Brand Voice: What it is and How to Make One”
The Importance of Colour: Creating an Brand
Hey everyone! In these next few blog posts we are going to be covering all sorts to things to help you build your brand as a musician/ music business, create and online presence and keep your fans interested in what you have to say. Starting with the basics: Colour Want to build a website orContinue reading “The Importance of Colour: Creating an Brand”
Garage Band Basics
Surprise!! I have a bonus songwriting article for you, but this time it’s a little different. Now that we’ve covered the building blocks of lyric writing, I’ll be going through how to create a basic backing track on Garage Band. If you’re not an apple user, I’m sorry but you wont have access to thisContinue reading “Garage Band Basics”
Bridge-ing the Gap
The final piece of our songwriting journey takes us to the bridge (which is also known as the middle 8). So what is a bridge? A bridge is a few bars of music that is normally present after the 2nd chorus, before the 3rd (and sometimes 4th). It provides contrast to the rest of theContinue reading “Bridge-ing the Gap”
Pre-Chorus Practices
While not every song uses a Pre-Chorus, they are without a doubt a key component in popular song structures. So What Even Is a Pre-Chorus? Pre-Choruses (like its name suggests) sits in between the verses and the chorus in your song writing structure. It is often two to four lines long however could even goContinue reading “Pre-Chorus Practices”
Creating a Chorus
The Next Step Now that we’ve spoken about Verses, its time to move onto the next (and arguably most important) part of the song structure- the Chorus! Almost all genres of songwriting have the use of a chorus in common, from Jazz to Rock and Roll. They are often the most melodically catchy part ofContinue reading “Creating a Chorus”
What is a Verse?
Sounds like Songwriting 101 right? But when you think about it, what actually is a verse? What does it do? What is its purpose? Sure we all know that a verse is a piece of music that goes before and after a chorus (or is it?), is the same each time (or is it?) andContinue reading “What is a Verse?”
Popular Songwriting Themes
Struggling to think of ideas for your next song? When you’re listening to the radio, you start to notice that a lot of songs seems to have the same themes. Why not use one of these themes to write your own? I have scoured the internet (as well as listening to hours and hours ofContinue reading “Popular Songwriting Themes”
Shape of You
Writing The Top Song of the Decade 2020 New Year has been and gone (here’s to finally making it past January!) and with it, we welcome in a new decade. Without a doubt, one of the most successful popular musicians of the past year was Ed Sheeran. From his third studio album Divide, Shape ofContinue reading “Shape of You”