Song Collaborating – Your Words, My Music, Our Hit Song

Songwriting Tips by Molly-Ann Leikin

It is discouraging to have the special gift to write great lyrics – stacks of them – but not have any music. No matter how good your work on the words, you simply can't sing them or ever hear them on the radio without a tune. Nobody can. Ever. And it can't just be any tune – it has to be a great melody – the music has to be instantly sing-alongable, original and a hit.

So it's beyond exciting to find the right person to finally set your words to music.

Maybe that person is me!

I work by consultation, so if you're a client and send me some of your lyrics with a view to collaboration consideration, if the magic happens and the rhythm of your words suggest a melody, and I find myself suddenly singing to your lyric, I know we're both home – your words have sung the music and the rhythm to me.

Unless I feel my melody can combine with your words to make us a hit song, I do not accept the commission. But if I get goosebumps, I am on it, all day, every day, making absolutely sure our finished song is strong enough to realistically compete in the marketplace. There's no point otherwise. And once our song is finished, and our demo made, I stop at nothing to get us a meaningful record.

A number one country song earns $250,000.00 a week, every week it's number one, plus $250,000.00 a year, every year thereafter, for your whole life plus 70 years. Pretty nice payday? It's even more for a pop.adult contemporary hit.

Would you like to collaborate with me? View my Services here.

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