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.

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.

Arranging Songs

Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879308964
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Offers advice for aspiring songwriters and artists on how to transform a song into a musical arrangement for either a single instrument or a group.

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.

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.

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.

How to Write Songs on Guitar

Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879306113
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Explains how to create songs to be played on guitar, including advice on such basics of songwriting as structure, rhythm, melody, and lyrics.

How to Write Songs in Altered Guitar Tunings

Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Backbeat Books
ISBN: 9780879309534
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Accompanying CD contains 44 tracks of chord sequences demonstrating use of each tuning.

Popular Lyric Writing

Author: Andrea Stolpe
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
ISBN: 9780876390870
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Hit-songwriter/educator Andrea Stolpe shares her ten-step songwriting process that will help you craft lyrics that communicate heart to heart with your audience. She advises on how to: streamline and accelerate your writing process; use lyric structures and techniques at the heart of countless hit songs; write even when you're not inspired; and more.

Whatever It Takes

Author: Stephen Stohn
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459740009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
This book will change the way you think about success. Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion. Stohn, who has been at the heart of the entertainment industry for over forty years, shares a lifetime of experience and unique insights into how dreams are turned into reality. “Whatever It Takes” — both a mantra and Degrassi’s theme song — has been heard millions of times all over the world. It embodies a philosophy of struggle and self-belief leading to accomplishment, as well as the story of an exploring mind, an adventurous pursuit of experience, ringing failures, and the willingness to see things in a different way.