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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