ISAIAH BARKER //
THE SONGBIRD APP
Isaiah Barker is both a worship leader and a chord chart writing process easier, but nothing be able to organize those ideas with different,
worship songwriter. He wrote one of the songs satisfied my needs at the time. It wasn’t until custom tags. Coming in our next major update.
on my favorite For All Seasons Clarity record eight or nine years later that, out of frustration even. When I heard he had been working on with the lack of a “perfect” product, I set out [WM] For me, what I would want is a way to
an App for Songwriters for the last two years to make my own. Two years later, Songbird is easily record audio demos. You have taken this
called Songbird, I knew it was time to sit down finally here. a step further with your app having the ability to
with him.
trim, loop, import and export audio. How does
[WM] Your app sports some pretty cool
[WM] Isaiah, you are a worship songwriter features… tell us about how a songwriter can
yourself, and you have also collaborated with organize their content?
this all work on the app?
[Isaiah] This is one of those features that is
others when writing worship songs. When did
coming in the next major release (by the end of
you see a need for this new Songbird App and [Isaiah] Organization is very important to 2019) that I am most excited about. Some of
how did you go about transitioning from a good me. Songbird has a super clean and easy- us songwriters don’t play an instrument when
idea to an actual full-fledged product? to-navigate interface with a few ways to stay we write, or we like to focus on the lyrics and
organized. You can currently create individual not have to worry about the instrumentation.
[Isaiah] I began to see the need for a product songs that store specific information per song A powerful way these audio features can be
like Songbird back when I was in high school. such as the writers, key, tempo, and content in used is in a situation where you record a chord
I was the kid with drumsticks in my back the Word Bank. You can also organize those progression, trim the front and back of that clip,
pocket and guitar picks in my front pocket, individual songs into albums. and place the clip on a loop. Now you can let
carrying around this 2-inch binder filled with
the chord progression play on loop while you
lyrics and chords charts I was writing. I tried We are excited to roll out the ability to keep your focus on the lyrics and melody. You could
to find various ways to digitize and make the songs separated from your ideas, which you’ll also loop a clip that you import in, say from a
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