To support music creators we've created a community on Discord to help find collaborators, get feedback on songs and get advice. The community is open to all, whether you're starting out on your creation journey or a veteran music creator. It's a space to share your aspirations, gain knowledge and connect with like minded individuals. You may also find some songwriting challenges to get involved in.
Rules
As with all community spaces there are rules to follow, our community team makes sure that these are enforced. The Session Studio community is and always will be a safe place for everyone.
🙏Respect each other, we're all friends here
🙏Use appropriate names and avatars for your profile
🚫Do not share extreme, violent, graphic or adult content
🚫Do not spam the channels
🚫Do not promote or sell products and services
Channels
With Discord you split topics into different channels, this makes it much easier to get involved in conversations and find helpful information. Below are some of the channels and topics that we offer. This list will not be exhaustive with other channels being added. The channels are split into sections information, general chat, competitions, collaboration and feedback, songwriting, production, art work and beats, and support and information. There are also voice channels for general, songwriting and production.
If you ever have any suggestions for channels we should add, please let us know in the community. A member of the community team will contact you.
Information
Announcements
Find out what's going on in the community and with Session Studio in this channel.
Rules
Exactly as you'd think, the rules for the community.
Links
Links to our social channels and Session Studio.
Roles
Choose roles such as producer or songwriter that sit on your profile within the community. When it comes to collaborations this makes it easier for you to all indentify each others skills.
Music Industry
Find the latest information from around the world about the music industry!
General Chat
Welcome To The Community
Introduce yourself to the rest of the community and say hi! Share some information on your music creation journey and get welcomed by the rest of the community.
General
For talking about anything you feel like! You can talk to other music creators about anything that's on your mind, this could be music or anything else that interests you.
Competitions and Opportunities
SongDrop Competition
You can ask questions about our global song competition that runs each month as well as check out the latest information on prizes and guest judges. You can also find more information on our website here
SongDrop Winners
A quick way to look up the previous winners of SongDrop.
Challenges
Sometimes there will be community specific challenges, such as write a song with a new collaborator or only use two instruments. This channel is for announcing the challenge and for entries to be posted using a Session Studio share link.
Feature on Social Posts
Post your Session Studio share links for a chance to feature on one of our social media posts. If it's not a share link you won't be considered and your post will be removed after 24 hours if it's not corrected.
If your song is chosen, you will be contacted for a downloadable version and the credit information so we can credit all collaborators in the post.
Collaboration And Feedback
Find Collaborators
You can create a post to look for collaborators from within the community. If you're looking for a vocalist, producer, mixer or anyone else to help you complete your project post in here. Make sure you give links to your previous work, or the work in progress. Be clear on what collaboration you're after to make it easier to find people to work with.
Song Feedback
You can share Session Studio share links of your projects into this channel to get feedback from the community. All feedback must be constructive and helpful to the music creator posting.
Share Your Music
Want to get your music in front of people? Share it in the share your music channel where you can post links to Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube or from anywhere else. If you have an album, EP or single launch speak to us about setting up an event to support it.
Songwriting
Songwriting Chat
General chat about songwriting, talk about your process share advice and get to know each other.
Songwriting Help
Stuck trying to figure out a melody, or don't know how to get started? Put a post in this channel to get some words of wisdom from the community.
Lyric Clinic
Get support on your lyric writing and share what you've been work on using a Session Studio PDF of your lyrics.
Talk about the art of lyric writing and the different techniques you use.
Production
Music Production Chat
General chat about music production, talk about your process share advice and get to know each other.
Production Help
Stuck on how to get a certain sound, what plug-in you need to use? Put a post in this channel to get some words of wisdom from the community.
Remix Roulette
See what everyone has been creating using each others stems! Apply to enter into the remix roulette in this channel and listen to what people have created. There will be listening sessions held periodically.
The rules are simple;
Names are paired together at random.
When paired share your stems for a song with each other.
Songs will be played during a listening session.
Be in with a chance of your remix being shared on Session Studio's social channels.
Support And Suggestions
Support
Need help using Session Studio? This is the channel for you, get help and advice from other users as well as the community team.
Community Suggestions
If you have ideas for events that could be run, would like help writing a song or just think we need extra channels, post your ideas here!
Polls
As simple as it sounds, in this channel we will post polls for you to vote on things, such as which feature you would like to see added to Session Studio.
Feature Feedback
Do you have an idea for new features for Session Studio? Think something can be improved? Then post your thoughts in the feature requests channel, all posts are fed back to the product team to feed into the roadmap.