Serve The Song

Songwriting Tips for DIY Musicians

Serve The Song is a blog about the craft of songwriting, music production, and online music promotion.  Anyone who has picked up the writer’s bug should find something they can relate to here.  For those non-musicians with a love for consuming and appreciating music, Serve The Song is an interesting window into the behind the scenes ideas of working songwriters.

This blog is also about the online songwriting community. It’s a place where songwriters and DIY music producers can come to share ideas, tips and insights into their style of song craft.  Each article and video is intended to be just the beginning of a larger conversation on any given topic related to our music careers.

This is an open blog to anyone who wishes to submit a guest post.  For more info, visit the Write For Us page.

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About Mary Shaw

Serve The Song publisher Mary Shaw is a singer-songwriter and corporate refugee returning to the music business after a multi-year hiatus. Since 1985, Mary’s sold a few thousand records, won some songwriting contests, and written music for advertising and music libraries. Mary’s goal for Serve The Song is to help people take their songs to the next level.

Listen to some of Mary’s music:

Falling (signed to a Film/TV music library)
Mountain Angel (Winner of the American Lung Association Clean Air Songwriting Contest)
Love’s Still There (semi-finalist at Kerrville Folk Festival)

Disclosures and Relationships

  • Serve The Song is owned and operated by Shaw Media Group.
  • Shaw Media Group is owned and operated by me, Mary Shaw.
  • At times there will be ads with affiliate links throughout this blog. All of these are products I personally endorse.
  • In some posts I will insert affiliate links to products I endorse.
  • I am an affiliate for Zzounds.
  • I am an affiliate for Jamorama.
  • I am an affiliate for Amazon and have read and recommend all the songwriting/music production books featured in the sidebar.
  • Content of guest posts is the responsibility of the respective authors.