The Songwriting Sourcebook

Author: Jim Roberts, Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781617800337
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
(Book). Complementing Rikky Rooksby's bestselling How to Write Songs on Guitar (00330574), this easy-to-use reference book will teach you how to write better songs. It analyzes important issues including writing harmonies, melodies and lyrics, and how to improve your songs by redrafting. The reference section includes sequences from a variety of diverse songs, outlining 20 songwriting moments, recommended listening for songwriters, and quotes about songwriting from professional songwriters. The enclosed CD features examples of chords, chord progressions and harmonies featured in the book, with a case history illustrating how to develop a song.

The Songwriting Sourcebook

Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Reference
ISBN: 9780879309596
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Fully updated and expanded edition"--Cover.

How to Write Chord Sequences

Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493067885
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Originally published in 2003, the revised and updated third edition of The Songwriting Sourcebook is the third entry in Rikky Rooksby's bestselling How to Write Songs series. This easy-to-use book will help you write better songs by explaining the art of writing effective chord sequences. It shows: • How three and four chords can lay the foundation for a simple song, and how to move on to progressions using five and six chords • How to give your chord sequences additional color by adding chords that are not strictly in key, including blues chords • How to write chord sequences for songs in minor keys as well as major keys, and how to take progressions into new territories by changing key • How to fine-tune the color of your chords by understanding the emotional potential of sevenths, sixths and ninths All examples come with easy-to-read guitar chord boxes, and the accompanying tracks feature original recordings that illustrate key points made in the book.

Money Chords

Author: Richard J. Scott
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595010394
Category : Armonía
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Money Chords is a comprehensive reference book of popular chord progressions. It identifies the eighty most popular chord progressions that have been used time and again to write hit songs and twelve tools to create them. The book is the result of the compilation and analysis of a representative sampling of over two thousand popular chord progressions that took several years to compile. Chord progressions are categorized both chronologically and by progression type. Chronological listings identify progression types common to a specific time period and the evolution of various progression types. Progression type listings compare how the best songwriters and performers have utilized similar chord progressions. Money Chords is intended to be a songwriter’s tool box to help stimulate the creation of many more great songs in the new millenium.

How to Write Songs on Keyboards

Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879308629
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
(Book). This book helps both keyboard and guitar players to find and develop interesting chords and chord sequences on a keyboard, and then use them to write their own songs. Rather than trying to teach intricate pieces of music, the book breaks things down into a simpler style and concentrates on basic chords and ideas, starting with a simple three-chord song and gradually adding more complex structures. A visual system that virtually eliminates the use of standard music notation allows guitarists who are used to using guitar tablature to feel totally at home. Songwriting issues are also analyzed, including key changes and writing songs in minor keys. The straightforward style of this book will have musicians writing on a keyboard with ease even if they never have before.

The Songwriting Sourcebook

Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879307493
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Teaches aspiring songwriters the logic behind the creation of effective chord changes for any section of a song whether intro, verse, bridge, or chorus.

Engaging Musical Practices

Author: Suzanne Louise Burton
Publisher: R&L Education
ISBN: 1607094371
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music presents numerous ways to engage adolescents in active music making that is relevant to their lives so that they may be more apt to continue their involvement with music as a lifetime endeavor.

The Songwriter's Ultimate Toolbox

Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Backbeat Books
ISBN: 9781617130007
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 672

Book Description
(Book). The bestselling How to Write Songs on Guitar shows you tips and tricks by classic songwriters, from Bob Dylan to the Beatles to Tori Amos. The Songwriting Sourcebook shows you how to turn chords into great songs and compliments How to Write Songs on Guitar . How to Write Songs in Altered Guitar Tunings is the latest installment from Rikky Rooksby and is the only book that explains how to write songs with altered tunings.

Bruce Springsteen

Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879308360
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
"Bruce Springsteen" is the first volume of an exciting new series from bestselling author Rikky Rooksby. Each book in the series selects songs that span an artist's career and reveals the techniques behind his or her best work.

The Songwriter's Idea Book

Author: Sheila Davis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440322694
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
In her first two books, Sheila Davis classified the major song forms and enduring principles that have been honored for decades by America's foremost songwriters. Those books have become required reading in music courses from NYU to UCLA. In The Songwriters Idea Book, Davis goes one step further, giving you 40 strategies for designing distinctive songs. You'll break new ground in your own songwriting by learning about the inherent relationship between language style, personality type and the brain. • You'll go, step by step, through the creative process as you activate, incubate, separate and discriminate. • You'll learn to use the whole-brain techniques of imaging, brainstorming and clustering. • You'll expand your skilled use of figurative language with paragrams, metonyms, synecdoche and antonomasia. • You'll be challenged to design metaphors, form symbols, make puns and coin words. • And, you'll learn how to prevent writer's block, increase your productivity and maintain your creative flow. Over 100 successful student lyrics from pop, country, cabaret, and theater serve as role-models to illustrate the "whole-brain" songwriting process.