About
Hello and welcome to The Twitter Songwriting Community!
This is a community of songwriters both professional and amateur from those just starting out to those who have been in the business for years.
The community is here to share tips and tricks about songwriting and for you to ask songwriting related questions and get them answered by other members of the community. Each day we also give out a link to a community member’s song and ask for comments from the rest of the community (#Song4Comment). We also run occasional songwriting exercises.
The whole thing runs on Twitter. This blog site is just a support site of our Twitter activities. The community is run by @RavenousRaven.
To become a member of the community, all you have to do is to follow @RavenousRaven on Twitter – then just get stuck in and start taking part! Read below to find out more.
Glad to have you on board – we look forward to your input.
RR
Here’s how The Twitter Songwriting Community works:
- Our Twitter username is @RavenousRaven.
- Our Twitter profile can be found at http://twitter.com/RavenousRaven where you can see all of our previous tweets.
- If you send us a songwriting tip on Twitter (via @reply or Direct Message DM) we will retweet (RT) it out to the community (i.e. our followers).
- If you send us a songwriting question, we will also RT it. If people answer this question then we will RT their answers so that you can see them.
- Each day we send out a songwriting tip of our own on Twitter (which will start #Songwriting Tip)
- Our recent daily tips can also be found on the homepage of our blog (http://RavenousRaven.com)
#Song4Comment:
- Each day we also send out a link to that day’s #Song4Comment – a community member’s song which has been submitted by them for critique by the rest of the community
- The current #Song4Comment can also be found at the top of our blog homepage
- We encourage you to send in comments on the daily #Song4Comment – doing this regularly will help your own songwriting. You will get to learn what works and what doesn’t work
- To comment on the current day’s #Song4Comment just send your comment to @RavenousRaven on Twitter (via @reply or DM)
- All comments we get on that day’s song are RT’ed to all.
- If you do a Twitter search for #Song4Comment (<–click here) then you will be able to see the original messages we sent out containing the links to the songs as well as everyone’s comments.
Submitting your own song to #Song4Comment:
- Go to MusicXray.com, create an MusicXray for your song and submit it to us here: RavenousRaven Dropbox. Please read our bio on the dropbox page first before submitting – it will give you instructions that you need to follow.
- More info about MusicXrays can be found on our blog here
Other points to note:
- We are obviously not on Twitter all the time as we have our own songwriting to do! We do aim to check & retweet messages at least several times a day.
- Any tweets received during the night UK time will be retweeted first thing in the morning UK time.
- If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact us on Twitter!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
- Question: Why do you keep on repeating the same daily tip and #Song4Comment? Answer: We have followers from all over the world in every continent and many different time zones. In order for them all to get the opportunity to see the daily tip and #Song4Comment we repeat them 4 times during the day at roughly 6 hour intervals. We feel that this is about the right amount of repetition without getting annoying for everyone else. If we feel that the #Song4Comment messages have got lost amongst a lot of other messages or if not many comments have come in for that song, we may repeat the #Song4Comment message a few more times.
Thanks,
RavenousRaven (RR)
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I would like my song “Vanilla” to be a #Song4Comment.
Thanks… I love the postings.
- mjw
When you post your song will you give it away?
Great concept, and appreciate what you’re doing for the music community!
Can’t but agree with megaphone! Thank you RavenousRaven…
Great idea! Will definitely contribute.
Some people don’t consider there to be much actual ‘songwriting’ happening in the hip hop genre.. Are all styles welcome?
Thanks, Damon
Thank you for inviting me to become a part of this community. This site is extremely useful..
Thanks Seriouspoems
I believe this system can benefit the community of writers and myself greatly. Thanks, check out http://www.myspace.com/dennydistel and also my songs on http://www.musicxray.com where I have also submitted a song to yo. Thanks again, Denny D
Hi Damon,
Yes we actively encourage all styles and genres – welcome aboard!
RR
Great concept and I will contribute as much as I can. I actually started a new site about songwriting but I will contribute here as well. http://writeyoursong.blogspot.com it’s just a site for tips and tricks. I will advertise this community on that site.
Hard to keep within the 140 limit. So people, don’t be too offended if comments might seem off the cuff. Hard love is still love.
really good idea, thanks
All songwriters have a look here http://www.burnsong.org
International song contest! with a prize of a weeks residential song-school in the Scottish countryside and an amazing concert in Edinburgh!
thanx for following me hope we can get a lot possative out of the adds
I love this group! As a vocal trainer and songwriter, I have a lot to offer the group as I’m sure you all have a lot to offer me! Terrific!
http://www.SingLikeYouSpeak.com is a membership website full of video lessons and practice tips, discussions and recordings interviews with major music biz folks. Check it out!
For all NYC songwriters: Singing For Songwriters, an 8-wk class 9/14@7-8:30pm midtown http://www.vocalpowertools.com/blog/singing-for-songwriters-class-begins-sept-14-7-830/
RR, I saw your Tweet about taking a break to consider your options, and I certainly understand. I’ve been critiquing other people’s poems & manuscripts for years, and I really enjoy the work and like to help. However, this became so time-consuming, I had little time for my own writing. My solution was to charge below-standard fees for critiques then, once or twice a day, Tweet quick tips or insights about writing on Twitter. I also join discussions on LinkedIn & Facebook when I can and post articles about writing in all genres on my website, which, of course, are free. Don’t know if this would work for you. I just know that I look forward to your Tweets on song-writing. Thanks!
Hi Ravenous,
Great community you have here, I’d be honored to have my song
” Any Way That You Are ” considered for Song4comment.
Please listen at http://www.digitalrodeo.com/njstuckeysongwriter
Be well Ravenous and thanks for all you do for songwriting.
Cheers,
NJ
@RavenousRaven
RR … I think you have done a great job here, I am just getting started with similar endeavor in my neck of the woods –so cal. I am within weeks of launching my website/blog –a collaboration with another songwriter soon to be working on a project with Hal Leonard– and have similar motivations to yours in lauching it -will feature original material on audio players on the site-,only I also intend to represent some of the artist featured (my goal to sell original material and/or songwriting services not necessarily the artists’ performance persay -and this is as my time allows). I am by day a marketing/advertising executive with a talent for writing music. Hollywood is right down the street and I don’t see why we can’t get a piece of it –mostly for TV and film and commercials. So I will personally be pushing this thing. How can I help you and/or how can we work togther? Kathleen
My god!! I love it!
GREAT IDEA!
Hi,
PLEASE can you give me a quick mail at this address (or the one listed on the website).
Would love to chat to you a little bit about some partnership ideas I have with a product we’re launching next month.
Send me a mail so I’ve got your address and I’ll give you more details / a call, for you to have a look at.
Warm regards,
Chris Cox
Hey – great idea. I’m afraid i just deleted my twitter account (need to find sometime to write songs) but if you ever have the time I’m trawling through all 211 of the Beatles’ songs to pull out songwriting tips and ideas
http://beatlessongwriting.blogspot.com/2009/12/hard-days-write-why-beatles-songwriting.html