Comments on: Song Contest Score Card

By: Shaked

Shaked — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:07:55 +0000

originality of vocal and composition, dynamics, arrangement, lyrics, performance.

By: Numsig

Numsig — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:00:55 +0000

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.

By: Gene Stewart

Gene Stewart — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:05:44 +0000

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!!

By: Richard Steubinger

Richard Steubinger — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:25:17 +0000

I want you to include a score card on my entries,

Thank you

By: Victoria Hanks

Victoria Hanks — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:37:07 +0000

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….

By: Russell Blalack

Russell Blalack — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:58:55 +0000

1. Fit to genre
2. Groove
3. melody
4. lyrics
5. chord progression

By: Doug Mathis

Doug Mathis — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:41:30 +0000

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)

By: bob wright

bob wright — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:33:18 +0000

Does the lyric fit with the music,
both in meter and emotion ?

By: l perry

l perry — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:11:47 +0000

MELODY
ARRANGEMENT
LYRICS
COMMERCIAL APPEAL
STORY TELLING
USE OF INSTRUMENTATION
AND SOUNDS

By: BigRonLoveR'Mozart

BigRonLoveR'Mozart — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:40:24 +0000

1.Memorabillaty

2.Will the public spend their last dime on the soneg or a sandwich.

3.A danceable beat.