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Songwriting Breakthroughs

Strategies and Promps for Writing Your Next Song

Turbo-charge your songwriting process! These exercises and explorations will help you develop compelling ideas for song construction, and then manipulate and shape these ideas into emotionally captivating songs. You will find ways to troubleshoot your song's problem spots and learn to make lyric, harmonic, and melodic choices that bolster your own style. From innovative approaches for generating creative ideas to new ways of understanding and using advanced music theory concepts, this book will help you make your songs more expressive, meaningful, and personal. Whatever your musical style or experience level, this book will help you to write more, better songs.

You will learn to:

* Align your lyrics, harmony, and melody to support each other and maximize your song's emotional impact.

* Eliminate writer's block, effortlessly find new ideas, and create even when you are not feeling inspired.

* Structure your songs so that their story and meaning are riveting.

* Utilize your own favorite songs as a launching pad for your own unique style and innovations.

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Fun Fact:

This book purposefully has the same amount of pages as keys on a piano - 88!

The Singer-Songwriter’s Guide
to Recording in the Home Studio

Record songs in your own home studio! Today's smart singer-songwriter needs to be able to record high quality demo recordings. Whatever your budget, living arrangement, or technological aptitude, this book will help you acquire songwriter-appropriate home studio gear and use it effectively. You will understand the key concepts about how the recording process works, and how to get the best sound possible out of whatever equipment you own and whatever style of music you produce. This book makes recording easy so you can spend your effeorts thinking about creatieve songwriting and performing, rather than struggling with technology.