Songwriting: Resources
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The Craft and Business of
Songwriting
by John
Braheny | About the Author
| John Braheny is the co-founder/director
for the Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase, a
national non-profit service organization for
songwriters. He conducts seminars throughout the
U.S. and offers one-on-one consultations with
writers, writer/artists and businesses. He lives
in North Hollywood, California.
Discover
the
secrets
of
successful songwriting with this essential guide!
Cofounder of the Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase
John Braheny teaches you the craft of songwriting
while going behind the scenes of the music
business to reveal insider secrets that will make
your work stand out. Dozens of exercises, examples
and anecdotes from songwriters such as Vince Gill,
Sheryl Crow, TLC, Lenny Kravitz and Paul McCartney
will you show you how to: develop a songwriter's
consciousness; overcome barriers in the creative
process; write in all musical styles, and for film
and TV; and skillfully manage the business of
demos and contracts. This updated edition also
covers online opportunities for songwriters."A
practical street-level look at today's world of
songwriting ... Read and learn."- Diane Warren,
six-time ASCAP Songwriter of the Year with more
than 50 Top 10 hits
Music Write Songwriter Edition | by Voyetra
Description
MusicWrite
Songwriter
Edition is the perfect tool for anyone who wants
to compose and print professional-looking scores
right away. Use your MIDIkeyboard or mouse to
enter your music, then add lyrics, dynamics,
ties,triplets, orchestral markings, and more. Play
your piece back on yourcomputer or synthesizer and
then print out the parts.
With
MusicWrite Songwriter Edition, you can cut, copy,
and paste music into your score just like a word
processor. Play your music on a MIDI keyboardand
see it transcribed into notation on your PC
screen. Print your score,complete with your name,
song title, copyright information, and more, inany
Microsoft Windows font. Add chord names and guitar
symbols. The loop function lets you try different
ideas in real time by playing your song whilewhile
you are editing and entering notes. Use the symbol
palette to enter rests, clefs, chords, and more.
Add up to two lines of lyrics. MusicWrite supports
all of the common musical symbols, including
triplets, ties, and orchestral markings. When
finished, preview your score and hit print.
Singing for the Stars | Seth Riggs
A Complete Program for Training
Your Voice (Book & 2 CD's)
Product
Description:
What do
Michael Jackson, Anita Baker, Natalie Cole and
hundreds of other professionals have in common?
They all study voice with Hollywood’s leading
vocal coach, Seth Riggs. You can learn to sing
like the pros with this complete program for
training the voice.
The Songwriters Idea Book | Sheila Davis
40 Strategies to Excite Your
Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs,
and Keep Your Creative Flow
From
Book News, Inc.
Presuming
familiarity with the major music forms and the
basics of rhyme, rhythm, and plot development,
Davis offers sophisticated strategies to create
distinctive treatments of classic themes as well
as original song titles. Annotation copyright Book
News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Product
Description:
This book
reveals the inherent relationship between
personality type, brain function and writing
style. Includes 40 proven songwriting strategies -
guaranteed to spark songwriters' imaginations.
How to Write Songs on Guitar | Rikky Rooksby
A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting
Course
Guitarist:
"An
extremely
valuable
source
book for wannabe songwriters as well as a highly
readable journey of the popular song."
Product
Description:
Rikky
Rooksby helps you transform your guitar-playing
skills into creative songwriting techniques. Using
well-known songs as examples, plus lots of
easy-to-read graphics, he explains and
demonstrates how lyrics, melody, harmony, and
rhythm work in a song. Rikky's straightforward
style will have you up and writing on your guitar
with easeâ€"even if you never have before.
You'll
learn how to write words to melodies and vice
versa; how to understand, develop, and embellish a
melody; how chords create harmony; and how tempos
and time signatures differ. The book also analyzes
classic and unusual song structures and their
elementsâ€"from intros to bridges to
codasâ€"and discusses the benefits and
problems of writing songs on different kinds of
guitars.
Songwriting: Essential Guide
to Lyric Form and Structure | Pat Pattison
Product
Description:
Veteran
songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee
College of Music's best and brightest students how
to write truly great lyrics. Her helpful guide
contains essential information on lyric
structures, timing and placement, and exercises to
help everyone from beginners to seasoned
songwriters say things more effectively and gain a
better understanding of their craft. Features
examples of famous songs for study, including: Be
Still My Beating Heart * Can't Fight This Feeling
* It Was a Very Good Year * Tickle Me * and more
How to Write a Hit Song | Molly-Ann Leikin
The Complete Guide to Writing
and Marketing Chart-Topping Lyrics and Music
Guitarist:
"An
extremely
valuable
source
book for wannabe songwriters as well as a highly
readable journey of the popular song."
Product
Description:
Rikky
Rooksby helps you transform your guitar-playing
skills into creative songwriting techniques. Using
well-known songs as examples, plus lots of
easy-to-read graphics, he explains and
demonstrates how lyrics, melody, harmony, and
rhythm work in a song. Rikky's straightforward
style will have you up and writing on your guitar
with easeâ€"even if you never have before.
You'll
learn how to write words to melodies and vice
versa; how to understand, develop, and embellish a
melody; how chords create harmony; and how tempos
and time signatures differ. The book also analyzes
classic and unusual song structures and their
elementsâ€"from intros to bridges to
codasâ€"and discusses the benefits and
problems of writing songs on different kinds of
guitars.
Melody in Songwriting
Tools and Techniques for
Writing Hit Songs (Berklee Guide)
| by Jack Perricone
Product
Description:
Discover
songwriting techniques from the hit makers! This
comprehensive guide unlocks the secrets of hit
songs, examining them, and revealing why they
succeed. Learn to write memorable melodies and
discover the dynamic relationships between melody,
harmony, rhythm, and rhyme. Fine-tune your craft
and start writing hits!
Jack
Perricone is a great admirer (and practitioner!)
of the pop song, and in this book he outlines
successful strategies for songwriters to get back
IN the groove, or to break OUT of their writing
"ruts". Granted, this material may seem rather
"heady" at times, and less intuitive than we like
to think creativity is, but when you need a
jumpstart to get back on track, you'll be glad to
have this assortment of options at hand. Although
this book is nominally about Melody only, the
author includes all other song components as they
interact, and provides a fresh perspective and
analysis on how and why certain songs reach us and
connect with the public. There's as much respect
shown toward rock and blues songs as more
traditional pop, and a lot of very valuable stuff
for writers of ALL styles of songs.
Solo : Women
Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words - Marc Woodworth
Sarah
McLachlan:
"When I
sang and played I'd get completely lost in what I
was doing. During that time, I was no longer this
stupid, useless little ten-year-old who didn't
have any friends. I was someplace else, where none
of that could touch me."
Jewel:
"Fame
exists in other people's minds. I can't experience
my own fame at all but I experience it in other
people's eyes when I look at them and see that
they're scared."
Shawn
Colvin:
"Giving
up addiction was the springboard into adult
thinking. I realized that everything was a choice.
The world was an open book. Nothing was the same
after that."
Sheryl
Crow:
"I always
pictured myself as a loner off living like a Jack
Kerouac character or, worse, someone out of a
Charles Bukowski book, one of those
down-and-outers who works at a gas station and has
no one and no family."
Lucinda
Williams:
"I don't
want to offend anyone, but I like to push people's
buttons. While I want to appeal to people in all
walks of life, I also want to get a response, make
them think."
Writing Better Lyrics - by Pat Pattison
About
the Author
Pat
Pattison is a professor of music and songwriting
at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where
he developed the curriculum for their degree in
songwriting--the first of its kind anywhere. He
was a regular contributor to Home and Studio
Recording Magazine. He lives in North Hampton, New
Hampshire.
Product
Description:
Pattison
presents a unique, in-depth approach to the
process of lyric writing. Apprentice songwriters
will examine 17 extraordinary songs and learn the
distinct elements that make them so effective.
Pattison then presents more than 30 lyric-writing
exercises designed to help them achieve the same
results. From generating lyric ideas and managing
repetition to developing verses, it's all here.
Songwriters will:
* find
warm-up exercises that revolutionize songwriting
imagery
* use a
rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus to generate
ideas and find snappy rhymes
* create
meaningful metaphors and similes while avoiding
clichés
* develop
verses by using or by breaking conventional rules
*
experiment with point of view in every lyric to
make a song stand out
Songwriting: Essential Guide
to Lyric Form and Structure - Pat Pattison
Product
Description:
Veteran
songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee
College of Music's best and brightest students how
to write truly great lyrics. Her helpful guide
contains essential information on lyric
structures, timing and placement, and exercises to
help everyone from beginners to seasoned
songwriters say things more effectively and gain a
better understanding of their craft. Features
examples of famous songs for study, including: Be
Still My Beating Heart * Can't Fight This Feeling
* It Was a Very Good Year * Tickle Me * and more
The Complete Rhyming
Dictionary
- by Clement Wood
From the
Publisher
This
simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference
work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to
meet the needs of today's most demanding
wordsmiths. Included here are over 10,000 new
entries--over 60,000 in all, sight, vowel,
consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable
rhymes.
From the
Inside Flap
This
simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference
work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to
meet the needs of today's most demanding
wordsmiths. Included here are over 10,000 new
entries--over 60,000 in all, sight, vowel,
consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable
rhymes.
Songwriting: Essential Guide
to Lyric Form and Structure | by Pat Pattison
Tools and Techniques for Writing
Better Lyrics
Description:
Veteran
songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee
College of Music's best and brightest students how
to write truly great lyrics. Her helpful guide
contains essential information on lyric
structures, timing and placement, and exercises to
help everyone from beginners to seasoned
songwriters say things more effectively and gain a
better understanding of their craft. Features
examples of famous songs for study, including: Be
Still My Beating Heart * Can't Fight This Feeling
* It Was a Very Good Year * Tickle Me * and more.
Pat
Pattison has been teaching lyric song writing and
poetry at Berklee College of Music since 1975, and
has played an integral part in developing
Berklee's songwriting program, which was the first
complete songwriting degree program to be offered
anywhere, and is arguably the best in the world.
Among the many other vast contributions Pat makes
to the music industry, he also spends a lot of
time writing in Nashville, works for TV and film,
and does a ton of workshops and clinics all over
the world.
In the
forward of "Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric
Form and Structure" Pat indicates that "This is
not a general book on lyric writing...it's
specific purpose is to help you handle your lyric
structure more effectively."
This is
great because, instead of trying to deal with all
aspects of lyric writing in a diluted overview,
Pat instead, offers a very concentrated and
detailed discourse on the aspect of song craft
that seems to be most absent in most songwriters
background...the deliberate use of structure.
Music Publishing: A
Songwriter's Guide | Randy Poe
Description:
Music
Publishing: A Songwriter's Guide- revised 2nd
edition contains everything a songwriter needs to
know about the publishing industry. It has been
revised to contain information about new media
such as CD-ROM, the internet and sampling.
Complete Idiot's Guide to
Songwriting
Description:
Song has
been a part of people's culture since the
beginning. From classical and rock and roll to
country and jazz-- there are hundreds of thousands
of budding and established songwriters burning to
write the next great hit. The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Songwriting is the one-stop resource for
all inspiring songwriters to learn how much
musical training is needed, how to put together
the basics of a song for various popular genres,
how to tailor songs to different industries (TV
and film), how to get great ideas, where to find
collaborators, publishers and agents and how the
Internet is impacting the world of songwriting
Songwriters on Songwriting | Paul Zollo
Description:
An
expanded edition of a classic collection of
interviews with the greatest songwriters of our
time.
This
expanded fourth edition of Songwriters on
Songwriting includes ten new interviews--with
Alanis Morissette, Lenny Kravitz, Lou Reed, and
others. In these pages, sixty-two of the greatest
songwriters of our time go straight to the source
of the magic of songwriting by offering their
thoughts, feelings, and opinions on their art.
Representing almost every genre of popular music,
from blues to pop to rock, here are the figures
that have shaped American music as we know it.
Basic Music Theory: How to
Read, Write,and Understand Written Music - Jonathan Harnum
Description:
A
freindly, clearly explained primer for music
theory. From what is a staff to basic chord
progressions and everything in between, including
key signatures, scales, modes, and much more.
Each
chapter and section includes a comprehensive,
cross-referenced review, specially designed for
optimal memorization. In addition, practical use
exercises reinforce what is learned.
Book
contains a large glossary, index, blank staff
paper, and a piano keyboard which doubles as a
bookmark and is used with the reviews.
An
excellent and friendly book.
The Big Book of Staff Paper - Hal Leonard
Description:
This
1-1/4 inch.-thick edition is the ultimate book of
staff paper - perfect for students, teachers, or
any musician! It includes 512 perforated pages
with 12 staves per page, plus a helpful music
notation guide. 8-1/2 inch. x 11 inch..
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