Beginners Guide To Song Form Part 2 After receiving such great feedback from you guys, we’ve decided to continue the songwriting form series. Last time we touched on the AABA format using Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years” as an example, and today I want to focus on the most popular song structure-ABABCB. Understanding Song Structure Basics: ABABCB Song Form The ABABCB Song Form: The most common song form is the ABABCB form, which is a verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus song…. [Read More]

Inspirational songwriting, an interview with Angie Zawada Angie Zawada is a songwriter I have come to know quite well over the past year. We have produced two full productions together along with StudioPros’ production team. Both projects have been huge thought out productions with lush arrangements, full band instrumentation, full choral arrangements and an inspirational message for the world. She is an emotional songwriter- someone who finds time in her busy life as a 4th grade school teacher to spend… [Read More]

Studio Pros helps songwriters develop their sound. I first met Bill Simon in May of 2012. He was contacting me about general information on collaborating with Studio Pros and exactly how it works. Little did I know at the time, that we would continue a very strong production collaboration together throughout the year and he would prove to be the prolific songwriter that he is! Now with 23 full music productions complete with the Studio Pros team, Bill has proven… [Read More]

Pop-country production with Studio Pros. Meet Sophie Morgan. She is a young UK based singer songwriter with talent well beyond her late teen years. With influences ranging from Frank Sinatra to My Chemical Romance, she is a rising star to watch. Sophie contacted Studio Pros with an interest to record one of her more country/folk influenced songs and the results were outstanding. We took Sophie’s original piano vocal demo and transformed it into a pop-country hit. Incorporating her influences of… [Read More]

Luciana is a very talented artist.  From the get go, she had a clear vision for all the songs that she produced with StudioPros.  She acted very much as one of the producers on the project, which is the great part of working with StudioPros, you can be as involved as you would like or give complete control to us producers on the team here. For “Stardust”, you can clearly hear the European artist influences of Adele and Coldplay with… [Read More]

Chase Force is an eclectic Norwegian based singer/songwriter with a wide range of  influences from pop, rock, hip hop, indie, to folk. You can hear his influences shining through in his latest production with the Studio Pros team, “United in Scream”. The song is the perfect combination of live instrumentation of saxophone and flute establishing the hook, acoustic guitars, live electric bass and backing vocals with drum programming to give it the dance feel that moves the listener. “Blow The… [Read More]

Thinking his music career was over, Arizona-based artist Tony Perre used Studio Pros to get back in the game. “My experience with Studio Pros has allowed me to dream a little bit more about what I can actually accomplish as a musician,” says Tony Perre. “Studio Pros has allowed me to take all of my musical ideas and songs and get them out there. To me, having a very simple process with great musicians who basically do exactly as I… [Read More]

Using Studio Pros to breathe new life into some old songs, English Earl successfully proved to himself that he had what it takes to make great music. English Earl suspected he had some good songs on his hands, but he knew his productions just weren’t going to cut it against the high-quality recordings of today’s music industry. “I kind of wanted to resurrect my old pop songs and write a few new ones, I thought it would be a great… [Read More]

Native Californian and singer-songwriter Gary Henson’s music brings together a melting pot of varied rhythms and authentic experiences. Raised in L.A., Gary now lives in the foothills of the Sierras in Northern California, about 45 minutes northeast of Sacramento. A busy keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist, we recently caught up with him to talk about producing his latest song “Me And You” at Studio Pros. Check out Gary’s Song “Me And You”: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Studio Pros artist Eliza Kelley has been a professional musician for years, but not of the rock variety. With a master’s degree in French Horn performance from Boston University, she has been playing and teaching classical music for a living in her hometown of Atlanta, GA. “I play with the Greenville Symphony, and I play in Atlanta with the Atlanta Pops and the ballet and the opera,” she says. “Those gigs are very fun, but they’re also very serious, very… [Read More]