Songwriters, Meet Your New BFF

Fact you may not know about me: As a teen, I dabbled with songwriting.

… Then I quickly realized that judging other people’s songs is much easier than writing hits of my own, and I decided to focus on the business side of the industry.

Nonetheless, my brief foray into the songwriting world led to the discovery of MasterWriter, one of the most useful tools a songwriter can have at their disposal. And as I was looking at the MasterWriter icon on my desktop the other day, the thought occurred to me that some of our readers may not be aware of the program and would do themselves a world of good by becoming familiarized with it, especially now that version 2.0 is out.

Offering a number of trememdously helpful and unique features, MasterWriter provides songwriters with virtually everything they need in a single program. Its rhyming dictionary identifies perfect rhymes, sound-alikes, and pop-culture rhymes. Additionally, rather than only providing you with single-word rhymes for a word, it also offers a “Rhymed-Phrases” feature, thereby providing you with phrases that rhyme with a word. Rhyming aside, if you simply want to find a phrase that includes a particular word, its “Phrases” feature has you covered. Furthermore, its “Pop Culture” feature offers a vast list of American and World Culture items (these can be used for inspiration) and the program now offers a handy new feature (in version 2.0) called “Word Families” (essentially a thesaurus on steroids).

The above is just a quick overview of the most notable features offered by MasterWriter to give you an idea of what it’s all about. As you can probably tell, the results offered by the program are far more extensive than what you would get in the average rhyming dictionary or by using other songwriting tools. This can inspire new song ideas, help solve writer’s block, and take songs you’re working on in directions that you wouldn’t have otherwise thought of. For a full list of features and to get a better understanding of how the program works, visit www.masterwriter.com and watch the short product demo. You can also check out the thorough review Geek.com did of MasterWriter 2.0 here: www.geek.com/articles/music/lyricists-score-a-hit-with-masterwriter-20-20090423/

Happy writing.