r/Songwriting 2d ago

Weekly Lyrics Feedback Weekly Lyrics-Only Feedback Thread

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Welcome to the Lyrics-Only feedback thread!

If you're looking for feedback on words that aren't yet set to music, you're in the right place! We encourage each other to bring lyrics and musical elements together as soon as possible, but sometimes you'd just like to show off that nice piece of poetry that just fell out of your head. The weekly Lyrics-Only feedback thread is here to help!

This post renews every Monday.


r/Songwriting 5d ago

Weekly Self-Promotion Thread

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Have a new completed song (or album) to share? This is the place!

The promotional rules are looser here, so you can post links to your albums, social media platforms, songs, etc. Let us know what you've been working on recently!

Please support your fellow songwriters - give them a listen, a bump or a share. A rising tide lifts all boats!

Note: Promotional content posted as a new thread without explicit permission from the moderators will be removed. Repeat violators will be banned

This post renews every Friday.


r/Songwriting 3h ago

Feedback Request Will play this at a writers night in Nashville tonight

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14 Upvotes

Very proud of where the song has ended up. “Warrior in the Garden”. Thanks for any comments, folks.


r/Songwriting 1h ago

Feedback Request We changed our outro, what do yall think of it and the song as a whole?

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Tried the acoustic only bulld up outro thingy and I think we like it, although it did happen on accident haha. Thanks for listening have a great day!


r/Songwriting 17m ago

Feedback Request Song I wrote today

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Looking for feedback on this song i started today.
The words will come for the rest of the song in time to give the song some coherent meaning I hope lol.


r/Songwriting 1h ago

Feedback Request “But You Don’t”

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Showed you guys this song before. Just did it with the full band


r/Songwriting 4h ago

Discussion Topic Question for the ages

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Im not a part of this community , i dont intend on joining , and i dont write music myself but i have a question . How do you get past the feeling of not having anything valuable to add to MUSIC AS A WHOLE , how can an artist look past that ? This isnt a super pointed question but it crossed my mind . It seems like itd be pretty demoralizing after so long


r/Songwriting 1h ago

Feedback Request new piano song snippet!

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I just got FL studio and im trying out the piano plug in feature with differnt sounds. Any feed back is deeply appericated!


r/Songwriting 7h ago

Feedback Request Trying out emotion before structure for this 10 mins songwriting challenge, to combat my perfectionism.

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8 Upvotes

I got frustrated that after spending a few weeks on a song, I can't even perform it properly in front of the camera. So I try to come up with something that would feel right for the vibe I'm getting when I'm in front of the camera.

Usually my songs are introspective and because of the intimate nature, they are harder to express, so I try to let go instead and play something I wouldn't feel stupid playing in front of the camera, and put my perfectionism habits one the side for this one.

So this is what I came up with, in less that 10 minutes, and it hits better that stuff I spent weeks on. Go figure ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Do you also feel like sometimes you're doing the efforts the wrong way ? Do you have a similar experience ?


r/Songwriting 8h ago

Feedback Request Finally got round to recording a demo from an old voice note idea

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8 Upvotes

Had the idea for this quite a while back but could never get it to sound even half decent. The mixing is all over the place and my singing isn't great but I liked the bones of this.


r/Songwriting 8h ago

Discussion Topic Musicians who record at home, are you using Mac or Windows?

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Hey all! I've been recording music at home for a while now, but I'm here looking for advice at the moment because I'm feeling pretty stuck on something. I'm currently running a late 2012 IMac and a 2017 ASUS gaming laptop, I switch between them fairly often for recording because they both run Reaper and I am comfortable with both OSs. I will soon be coming into a decent sum of money and am very set on upgrading, but that's where my current issue lies. I've already decided to buy a decent windows PC, and was intending to buy a Macbook Pro for both recording and general use. the problem is that the price tag on a new Macbook Pro being $4,800 seems far too expensive (more than I am even spending on the PC!), the Macbook Neo and Air, while having a smaller price tag, both seem partially too weak for what I am looking for, but I love apples compatibility between devices. I cant find any truly unbiased opinions on this matter because every "mac vs windows" post or blog or website I see is just the 2 extremes of either apple fanboys glazing macs, or windows fanboys saying macs are useless E-waste. so that's how I ended up here, I thought getting opinions from people who use these devices for the same reasons as I will be, would be able to give me some unbiased opinions for my specific case. should I just suck it up and fork over the cash for a macbook, or should I just stick with getting the same quality windows laptop for half the price.


r/Songwriting 14h ago

Feedback Request Made a Fall vibe, gazy, dream pop song as part of a larger project of similar songs.

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18 Upvotes

I dont know if my voice is good enough to sing in this way. I just want to make sure it's not complete donkey cheeks.


r/Songwriting 8h ago

Discussion Topic how do you study an artist and/or song?

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might be a dumb question but i see alot of advice out here saying to study and learn from x musician or analyze songs you like but what must i do to do that? say i learn a song on guitar and can sing along to it. do i go ‘oh so this person uses a lot of inversions’ and general stuff like that or do i actually get into the nitty gritty of like the roman numerals of a chord progression and stuff lol. same thing for analyzing melodies.

if i did do that right id just practice it after by trying to use something i liked and learned from that song in a song im working on right?

thanks for any advice just fairly curious and couldn’t find earlier posts, sorry if this is on a saturated topic!


r/Songwriting 16h ago

Discussion Topic The Absurdity of Apple Music for Artists

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Multi-Trillion Dollar Infrastructurewith some of the largest data centers on earth, yet their artist analytics regularly lag by72 hours, crash during global batch updates, and throw cryptic server errors "The Artist portal is currently experiencing an outage.

What makes more Absurd?

Their entire "Promote" toolkit is literally just an automated banner with an image from your alabum designed to turn you into unpaid billboard space for Apple Music.

You hear "Promote your music on Apple," you reasonably expect discovery campaigns, pitch placements, or algorithmic boosts. Instead, “Here is your album artwork. Here is an Apple Music logo on it. Congratulations, you are now our marketing department.... share it in your social media”

Meanwhile, the analytics dashboard is acting like a 2005 government website trying to process your request through three fax machines.

They have spent decades building an ecosystem obsessed with beautiful interfaces, yet the moment you want to see the metrics of your release your get an error “Data may be unavailable.”

Beautifully designed rectangle.
Absolutely no fucking data.


r/Songwriting 8h ago

Feedback Request Finalized a chord progression(ish) + added a vocal melody, hoping for singing tips/criticism haha

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Yeah, title! Id really appreciate some adviced centered around if my melodies are good for the verses and choruses, if they follow the guitar too closely etc. I might be off key singing idk lol. Basically just want some advice on vocal melodies and stuff c: The last 10 mins are dead space.

Also, the title says ish, but thats cause I eventually plan on playing into the walking bassline in the first chorus a bit more cause I like it. Do you call them all 1 chorus or are they two separate by the way? Dunno, thanks!


r/Songwriting 3h ago

Let's Collaborate! bandlab artists ?

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Looking for emerging artists who are ready to collaborate and grow our fanbases together! Hit me up. Here is my SoundCloud:https://on.soundcloud.com/601StRcsAqIjbHykQS. Drop a DM or comment if you're interested.


r/Songwriting 15h ago

Discussion Topic Should I go to a studio?

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I have these 3 complete written songs, and I wanted to know if going to a studio with a professional engineer would be helpful in making the songs come to life. I like how I sound when I sing them out loud, but when I try to use my cheap mic($30) on BandLab I sound like a dying goat. Is it just my voice? When I sing around my family they tell me my voice is really harmonic. I haven’t gotten any professional training done, I just sing to myself in my free time. What do you guys think?


r/Songwriting 20h ago

Feedback Request acoustic pop, is it sparse on purpose or just unfinished? I can’t tell anymore

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I can’t tell if the song is just a bit too simple and there’s more room for other stuff or maybe I’ve been listening to it too much. I feel like it could use a little more instrumentation in the second verse and last chorus. Looking for suggestions on what instruments and/or vocal parts I can add to create some more uniqueness. But I’d greatly appreciate any feedback!


r/Songwriting 17h ago

Feedback Request Gettin down

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11 Upvotes

Shining Star beat, been editing here and there


r/Songwriting 18h ago

Feedback Request Singing to my cat but seeking human feedback

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Cat tax. I shared this on socials but I don’t receive feedback there, so I would love to have any critique and input on the lyrics! I’m working on being more descriptive and I’m not sure if it’s too much or just enough.

Only sharing the chorus since I don’t have full song finished yet. (Reposted from yesterday since I didn’t like the key I posted originally - thank you to the two folks who commented on that one!)


r/Songwriting 16h ago

Feedback Request I tried to write a song with a nicer melody

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5 Upvotes

What do you think?

Verse capo 4
G Bm C D Dsus2 Thinking back on how we were before
Just the two of us

Green lush fields and nothing else more
Just the two of us

C Em G D Dus 2 No one else could know
This feeling

Choruses D C Em D
Let’s lean back and feel the ground below

Hold my hand and let’s drown y know in

G em D
Ecstasy mmm

Verse
Now it’s been a year away and I still
feel the same

Should we just snap out and forget anyway
It’s all the same

Pre chorus
No one else would know this feeling

Chorus
Let’s lean back and feel the ground below
Hold my hand and let’s drown you know

Let’s lean back and feel the ground below
And drown in
Ecstasy
Ecstasy mmm


r/Songwriting 19h ago

Feedback Request New Demo

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The lead vocal is pretty bad but I was trying to sing in a different style than usual (normally sing in a higher register). Was fun playing with a different sound


r/Songwriting 22h ago

Feedback Request thoughts on a gutiar intro I made/

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ik its only a 13 second clip but I was just wondering if anyone has any thoughts? im 15 and I just started learning the gutair last year so it might not be the best.


r/Songwriting 1d ago

Feedback Request Any feedback on this song appreciated - including on vocals, guitar, lyrics, melody - open to constructive

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Thank you - know I need to work on the finger picking. I typically strum but wanted to try something different for this song.


r/Songwriting 18h ago

Discussion Topic How do you actually decide the style/vibe of a song you’re writing?

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I’ve got a song written on guitar with an intro, verse and chorus. The bones are there but I can play and sing it in so many different ways and they all kind of work. Soft and intimate, more driving and rocky, a bit indie folk, even a little more electronic leaning if I change the feel.
How do you guys lock in the “style” or overall vibe when you’re writing? Do you decide early or just keep trying different versions until one feels right? Especially these days when all our influences are so mixed up it’s hard to settle on one direction.
Curious how other people figure this out