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Tell us about your project in a few lines: the consultation is free and without obligation.
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Giovanni Casali, editorial coordinator, will reply.
Want to get a sense of how we write first? Read a few excerpts.
You have a beat, an idea, a story to tell. The right words take craft: a metre that lands, rhymes that sound natural, a hook that stays in the head after one listen. We write the words, you bring the voice.
A single track over the beat you have already chosen, or a whole project: EP, album, concept album with a thread running through it. Any genre.
The lyrics reach you split bar by bar, marked with where each section comes in over your beat. You take them straight into the booth, no reworking needed.
You have put something down and you want it brought up to standard. We keep your substance and rebuild the form: metre, rhyme, hook. It stays your track, and it sounds the way it should.
If you have changed beat and the lyrics no longer fit, we cut them to the new tempo.
Your track in another language: Italian, English, French, German or Spanish, with the metre intact and the rhymes in place.
Translating a song means making sense, stress and rhyme all work at once. It is a craft of its own, and it is ours. If you want to be heard beyond your own market, this is where it starts.
The three bios you get asked for every time, written properly: the long one for journalists, the short one for the night’s line-up, and the 150-character one for Spotify and social.
It is the calling card that travels instead of you, and almost nobody has had it properly written.
When you approach a venue, a festival, a label, a press officer or a playlist curator, the first thing they ask for is your press kit. We write the whole thing:
The photos and videos are yours. The words are ours.
Press releases for a single release. Liner notes and booklet texts. Anthems, jingles and lyrics for companies, towns and events. A critical read of your own lyrics, with a written report telling you what works and what to work on.
On delivery the rights pass entirely to you. You can register them in your own name with a collecting society, record them, publish them, assign them to a label. They go out under your name, yours alone.
Confidentiality is total, and it is written into the contract.
Every project has its own quote: a single verse and an album are two different jobs. Tell us what you have in mind and we come back with a figure and a date.
If you want a sense of it now, the starting figures are here: how much does it cost to have a song written.
Do you write the music as well, or only the words?
Our craft is the written word. We deliver lyrics ready to sing, cut to the metre of your beat and split bar by bar, marked with where each section comes in. You bring the voice, in a studio or at home.
How much does it cost to have a song written?
It depends on the project: a single verse and an album are two different jobs. Tell us in a couple of lines what you have in mind and we come back with a figure and a date. The first exchange is free and without obligation.
Do the lyrics become mine? Can I register them in my own name?
Yes. On delivery the rights pass entirely to you: you can register the track in your own name as sole author of the lyrics, record it, publish it and assign it to a label. It goes out under your name, yours alone, and confidentiality is written into the contract.
Do you translate songs into other languages?
Yes, into Italian, English, French, German and Spanish, with the metre intact and the rhymes in place. It is a different job from translating ordinary text, because sense, stress and rhyme all have to work at once.
What do you need to start?
Your beat, if you have already chosen one, and half an hour of your time for the brief: where you come from, how you speak, what you want to say. That is the step that makes the difference between your lyrics and any lyrics.
Tell us about your project in a few lines: the consultation is free and without obligation.
info@dualpenbooks.com
Giovanni Casali, editorial coordinator, will reply.
Want to get a sense of how we write first? Read a few excerpts.