One thing I think everyone is overlooking, is the fact that songs never used to be seperated out into elements like they are now. If you had someone who wrote lyrics but didn't write music, he or she paired up with someone who wrote music. You didn't have sites like this where people just wrote lyrics and said, "Okay, I have no melody or music...who out there wants to take a shot at this? AND I won't give you cowrite, even though you wrote the melody and music, (and quite possibly performed it) because I came up with the lyrical idea."

Sam, the song you and Heather wrote comes to mind. You and Heather Orwig wrote a song called "One Together" and asked Haze and I to demo it. Up until that point, it was NOT a song...it was words on paper. You had no melody or anything. Haze made up the melody and then musicated it, which, IMO automatically would make him a cowrite, but that's beside the point. THEN, I came into the studio and performed it. We were paid $100 (or less, can't remember) and THEN, and ONLY THEN, did you have a viable song. You could now take what we did, and shop it to a publisher who would pay for a better demo or, if he/she thought the work tape was good enough, could shop it to an artist.

So my suggestion to you is, find a musician to work with to put melody and music to your lyrics. In fact, that's my suggestion to ANYONE who writes lyrics but does not make up melodies or play an instrument and sing. It's not a song until it has all of those elements.

Last edited by Polly Hager; 09/26/10 01:40 AM.
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