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.

Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure

Author: Pat Pattison
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476867534
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
(Berklee Guide). Veteran songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest students how to write truly great lyrics. His 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 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 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.

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.

Song Writing

Author: Stephen Citron
Publisher: Amadeus Press
ISBN: 9780879101374
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Which do you write first, the music or the lyrics? How can you give a song a country sound? How can you make your lyrics "sing?" What is the simplest way to protect a copyright? Song Writing answers these and other questions on the art of musical composition. Musical examples throughout.