Ever since she was little girl in Poland, student Debora Ferrante has dreamt of a life in music. Currently she’s finishing her studies and working as a restaurant server. Despite her busy schedule, she works hard to make time for her music. She began songwriting a couple of years ago, putting her experiences onto paper. When asked where her inspiration comes from, she said” my music always mirrors what’s in my head. It could be a memory, an emotion or… [Read More]

StudioPros gives new life to a Latin-Rock inspired song. Rob McCurdy is a retired IT Professional, now full-time songwriter whose life motto is to “live life to the fullest” in every way possible. Having been serious about writing songs for 50+ years, he has now used StudioPros to polish up his records and achieve a more professional and creative sound within his music. His featured song “She Drives Me Wild” tells his own personal story of a wistful fleeting romance… [Read More]

StudioPros Country Song Contest winner Kurt Hunter shares “Old Guitar” final master We wanted to share with you the before and after of Kurt Hunter’s winning StudioPros Country Contest song, “Old Guitar”. Kurt is such a talented songwriter and was a true pleasure to work with throughout this country music production. The StudioPros production team chose to go with a live country band feel including live drums, bass, electric guitar, piano as well as some tastefully placed pedal steel. Kurt… [Read More]

First Annual StudioPros Pop Songwriting Contest Winners Over 300 talented pop songwriters submitted to StudioPros first annual pop songwriting contest in just 2 weeks time. Wow! Well done everyone. Thanks for your enthusiasm. I have to say, there were so many great submissions that we had a really hard time making a final decision. If you submitted a song and you didn’t win, please don’t get discouraged. Keep on writing! We still want to help you professionally produce your song… [Read More]

Communication. The root of a lot of sessions that go wrong as well as relationships in general not working out comes down to this word COMMUNICATION. After years of working on productions in all styles, languages with different personalities, I thought I’d throw together a quick blog on what I have seen WORKS. Keep it short. Musicians in general don’t like to read. I have seen clients write paragraphs upon paragraphs of changes that they’d like to have made. What… [Read More]

First things first, HAPPY FRIDAY. TGIF! I wanted to share with you a really fun project I’ve recently wrapped up here at StudioPros in collaboration with my client Thierry Kauffman. Thierry lives in France. To me, it’s just amazing how we can get so much done and collaborate on a project like this from halfway around the world. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, MUSIC IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE that brings us all together. Thierry has good melody… [Read More]

Tips for A Great Co-writing Session The Situation: You’ve spent countless nights humming into your voice memos. You’ve scribbled dozens of ideas into the notepad on the bedside table after 2AM. But now, after spending most of your songwriting journey alone, other people want to come in and crash your party. If you’re a notoriously awkward collaborator, haven’t done it enough, or have never written with anyone before, here are a few tips for a smooth co-writing session. Songwriting With A… [Read More]

You’ve written a great song. You have a strong melody, lyrics, the musical structure is set and you have a vision for the production. The next step is finding the right team of musicians, engineers and producers to help you bring your vision to life. As an independent artist you come across a lot of decisions that can make or break your career in the industry of songwriting and pitching your songs to film and tv. Decisions such as: What… [Read More]

First Annual StudioPros Country Songwriting Contest Winners The StudioPros producers are beyond excited at all the wonderful country songwriting contest submissions that we received. What started out as a fun contest, turned into such an outpouring of well crafted country songs that we had to sort through. We had over 500 submissions to the contest! Making the final decisions on the winners was a difficult decision to make, but we LOVE the songs we chose. Stay tuned as we will… [Read More]

Have you written a chord progression and have ideas for the perfect instrumental track but are falling short in the songwriting department when it comes to lyrics, melody and singing? We can help! StudioPros topline service is something we’ve recently introduced and has been proven to help songwriters take their projects to the next level. The Best Way To Finish Your Partial Recordings. Whether you are stuck with a partial recording, or just have the instrumental and no lyrics or… [Read More]