March 27, 2010
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March 2010 From Songwriting Software Plus at www.SongwritingSoftware.com To
help your songwriting with a focus on the benefits of innovative software,
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Well I've had some more time to work on my own album project in the past few weeks and I'm still involved in my co-writing and co-producing project too with Daniel Avila and Carmen Batres but that's gotten to a smoother pace lately - more on that in a minute. And I hope you've had more time to work on your projects too. And speaking of working on (or playing hopefully :-)) with your music there are two sides to pop songs of course - the lyrics and the music - unless you're an instrumentalist only which is just as cool. If you do write lyrics though or work with a lyricist then this issue may be of interest as it focuses in on our two best selling lyric writing programs that have some great changes under foot. Anyway, check out the article below to find out more. Also, a new market page has been put up for our best selling digital audio workstation (also known as DAW) Mixcraft. If you need a great home recording software program for well under $100 I think you'll be quite impressed with all that Mixcraft offers. It's even won some great kudos from major music magazines. Click here to check out Mixcraft. Getting back to the Daniel Avila - Carmen Batres project, a first webisode documenting her life and recording efforts is up on youtube. If you've got about six minutes I think it's a fun watch and you'll get a closer look at this wonderful fifteen year old whom I'd classify as a cross between Kelly Clarkson and Selena. Click here for the video. See ya on the site or next month right here. Hope you have a great writing month!
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Your Dynamic Duo Lyric Writing Programs To Optimize Your Lyric Writing - Still Going Strong There are two enduring mainstay programs here at Songwriting Software Plus that continue to deliver great value in easing and optimizing your lyric writing efforts - Lyricist and MasterWriter. They've both been around for years and undergone a number of improving overhauls the most recent in the last year for MasterWriter and another one anticipated for Lyricist in the near future. Also, in addition to its recent upgrade, MasterWriter is now selling at a new, much lower price. Depending on your lyric writing needs and preferences you can usually find all you want in one or both programs - even in collaboration with each other. Let's take a look at the strengths of each of these programs and how they benefit your writing process. Even if you already own and use both you might be reminded of some features that you haven't tried out yet or if you own only one you might see how you can benefit by adding the other to your writing arsenal of tools. Lyricist - Lyric Assistant And Lead Sheet Creator Lyricist is our all time best selling lyric writing program because it covers the basics well - lyric writing and lead sheet creation. Get To The Point Fast - New York Style Get right down to business in a New York minute - with Lyricist you can quickly and easily start your lyric in one screen, Lyric View, and then simply click a tab and instantly load the same lyrics automatically to the Chord View. Then, either with guitar chord diagrams or chord shorthand, like a Cm7, type in your chords above your lyrics and you've got your lyrics ready to share and a chord style lead sheet ready to roll. This is why Lyricist makes a great central work horse program for song creation because it is set up to get right to it - lyrics and chords - but has the oft used tools ready right on the sidelines - like a spell checker, thesaurus and rhyming dictionary along with other handy helpers. It's essentially a word processor for songwriting and works pretty much as easily. Need It Nashville? If you need to go further with your chording Lyricist features the ability to switch between guitar, piano chord set ups and even the Nashville Number System if you need it. Using the Nashville Number System allows any musician oriented to that method to play your chord progression in any key without any of the chords having to be rewritten for each and every key change. But you can keep your chords written out and still transpose keys automatically in Lyricist if that's your preferred method - no sweat. Lyricist also has a song arranger panel that just shows your chords an no lyrics. Need It Silicon Valley? As much as Lyricist's heart is grounded in the tried and true basics of pop songwriting that have existed for years its head is in the digital age as well. For example you can email your songs from the program and accordingly do online collaboration. And though it's a Windows based program it can run on a Mac with a program like Parallels. Check out the full story on Lyricist by clicking here. Turbocharge Lyricist - Or Go Solo - With MasterWriter MasterWriter brings an extensive array of lyric writing tools to the table and some different musical tools than Lyricist thus making the combo of the two a sweet mix. Lyric It Up From the beginning, on the lyric writing side, MasterWriter has come with an extensive rhyming dictionary (100,000+) along with rhymed phrases, Roget's thesaurus, an alliteration dictionary and cultural references including clichés and topical buzz phrases. And the American Heritage Dictionary has been a mainstay of MasterWriter as well. Since then - all existing features were enhanced including a greatly expanded Sound-Alikes, (close rhymes). And two new reference dictionaries - Word Families and Parts Of Speech, were added - these two references open up a new world of possibilities for descriptive words and ideas and have many more related phrases than you'd ever find in a thesaurus. And the Bible was added, Old and New Testaments, both completely searchable for anyone needing a Biblical reference. Scratch And Groove On the music side of the program MasterWriter also continues with its recorder for scratch melodies or musical ideas and a large library of preprogrammed grooves. Got a quick melody idea - record it before you lose it. Load up the groove section and try out the various styles to get you writing in a particular style more easily or to simply stimulate a new direction for your song. Price Drop In an effort to make MasterWriter available to more songwriters it now comes with a lower price but is still the same powerful and greatly enhanced program. MasterWriter has been repriced to $199 US, just $179 though if you order it through Songwriting Software Plus. Check out the write up on Songwriting Software Plus' MasterWriter page.
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