MUC140 – Songwriting

Feedback can be a valuable tool in a songwriter’s toolbox. Especially for new writers, gathering advice from professional songwriters can give your song a big leg up. Most importantly, getting feedback on your songs is instrumental (pun intended) in helping you grow as a songwriter.

This is a monthly, virtual workshop where songwriters can receive professional, constructive feedback on an original song from mentors Pam Sheyne and Richard Harris.

If you have what you think is a great song, but you aren't sure if it's ready to be put out into the world, one step you can take is to have your song critiqued.

Musical performance is an organized presentation of musical sounds (and, arguably, controlled silences), usually for the entertainment, edification, or enrichment of listeners.

Here are four tips to help you understand what live audiences want and how you can deliver.

A demo (shortened from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs typically recorded for limited circulation or for reference use, rather than for general public release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas in a fixed format, such as cassette tape, compact disc, or digital audio files, and to thereby pass along those ideas to record labels, producers, or other artists.