Song Contest Score Card
February 4th, 2010 by Lior ShamirThree months ago, we launched the Song Contest and Critique Status Manager.
For the first time, when you entered one of our song contests or purchased a song critique, you had total control over your entry and insight into the review process.
No other song contest provides this kind of data, security and functionality to view, edit and store your most valuable assets: your songs.
Now, I want to take things one step further. And I need your help.
When you receive your Final Status (i.e. Winner, Finalist, Runner Up, Not Selected), I want to include a Score Card.
At the moment, we don’t have a standardized method for “scoring” entries. I want to change that.
What are the individual elements of a song that you think we should score?
February 5th, 2010 at 8:10 am
1. Originality in lyrics
2. Craftsmanship
3. Universal / Marketable
February 5th, 2010 at 11:40 am
1.Memorabillaty
2.Will the public spend their last dime on the soneg or a sandwich.
3.A danceable beat.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
MELODY
ARRANGEMENT
LYRICS
COMMERCIAL APPEAL
STORY TELLING
USE OF INSTRUMENTATION
AND SOUNDS
February 5th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Does the lyric fit with the music,
both in meter and emotion ?
February 5th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
1 Impact on the heart (Did it make you laugh or cry)
2 Song structure (Does it match the songs message)
3 Melody (Is it beautiful or fun)
February 5th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
1. Fit to genre
2. Groove
3. melody
4. lyrics
5. chord progression
February 5th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
I think that each lyric should be read and then be given a “score” not only for the way it’s been written, but by the story behind it. My lyrics are mainly based on truth and I try to make them relate to as many people as I can… given their past experiences and mine combined. That way I am communicating to them through this, and their memories and emotions are felt through my lyric. Lyrics these days have no meaning or emotion… This should change! I am only 17 years old, but I understand and have a good mind about lyrics. I don’t enter my lyrics into competitions because we have to pay, and because I’m from Wales in Britain, far from America.. I have been offered a song writing contract with Nashville, but I didn’t go through with it because of most competitions don’t actually read the lyrics properly and the “Winners” haven’t even wrote a lyric that actually mean a thing.. in my opinion. I’ve gone a bit off the subject but….
February 6th, 2010 at 1:25 am
I want you to include a score card on my entries,
Thank you
February 6th, 2010 at 9:05 am
The Melody, the Arrangement, and Lyrics, is very important when it comes to writing a song. You have to know what you can singing about and people have to be able to relate and understand the meaning of your song.
A song must have a message or tell a story as well as having the vocal talent to present it.
With that in mind as a example:
The Finalist and The Runner Up is very important because between the two, One will be the Winner.
The Score Card may or can look like this:
1. Score: 100 points ( WINNER)
2. Score: 90 points (Finalist)
3. Score: 80 points (Runner Up)
4. Anything below 80 points falls below(NOT SELECTED)
This is just a idea!!
February 7th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Beware this kind of folly. Putting quantative values to an inherently qualitative art form will always fail.
You start proliferating terrible, ill-thought statements like “lyrics must tell a story” – tell that to John Lennon (I Am The Walrus).
“…as well as having the vocal talent to present it” Bob Dylan, Ian Brown anyone??
Any rules or guideline for what make music/songs good will always be contradicted by something that is clearly AWESOME precisely BECAUSE it breaks these arbitrary codes of good. It’s how evolution works.
Best advice: Get a several people to rate the song on the ONE factor alone that matters….how much do I like it?….then tally an average score.
March 8th, 2010 at 10:07 am
originality of vocal and composition, dynamics, arrangement, lyrics, performance.