Righting Wrongs in Writing Songs

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Introduction Chapter 1: We Don't Know What We're Trying to Achieve
Chapter 2: We Don't Know Why We Are Writing
Chapter 3: We Don't Present Our Songs as Effectively as Possible
Chapter 4: We're Not Sure What Our Melody Is All About
Chapter 5: Notes Fall Out of Our Heads Without Us Thinking About Them
Chapter 6: Rhythms Fall Out of Our Heads Without Us Thinking About Them
Chapter 7: We're Not Sure What We're Trying to Say
Chapter 8: We Take Too Long to Say Too Little
Chapter 9: We Don't Take Meter and Rhyme Seriously Enough
Chapter 10: We Don't Think About How to Grow a Lyric
Chapter 11: We Don't Think About How We Grow Our Melodic Ideas
Chapter 12: We Write Chords Without Understanding Them
Chapter 13: We Don't Think About How We Use Chords
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This book gives both aspiring and seasoned songwriters a powerful new approach to writing songs, focusing on common obstacles in the songwriting process and techniques to help songwriters overcome them. Each chapter goes to the root of a specific songwriting problem and provides exercises to help readers over the hurdles and put their new skills to work. Topics include writing approach, purpose, structure, melodic significance and construction, basic music theory, word meaning, word design and arrangement, chords, and how they are all pieced together. Along the way, a song is created to act as a case study and a demonstration of what each exercise can result in. The lessons are fun, informal, and include fresh suggestions and exercises born out of the author's experience in teaching songwriting at the college level. The book's companion website provides audio clips to accompany the relevant exercises and examples presented in the book.
This book is able to cover all of the major aspects of songwriting while keeping everything entertaining and enlightening. It really doesn't matter what level of a song writer that you are . . . I very highly recommend it.
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

EAN: 0082039535319
UPC: 082039535319

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