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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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- Acknowledgments
- Foreword, by Jonathan Feist
- Preface
Part I. Lyrics
- Chapter 1. Your Favorite Songs
- Chapter 2. Lyric Augmenting Using Prosody
- Chapter 3. Songs Sections and Stories
- Chapter 4. The "Mozart Method" for Finding Titles
- Chapter 5. Manipulating Title/Hook Placement
- Chapter 6. Song Mapping in 2D
- Chapter 7. Song Mapping in 3D: But/Therefore
- Chapter 8. Connecting Emotions to the Story
- Chapter 9. Tempo and Its Emotional Effect
- Chapter 10. Rhythmic Density
- Chapter 11. A Process for Finding Rhymes
- Chapter 12. Imperfect Rhymes
- Chapter 13. Descriptions and Metaphors/Similes
- Chapter 14. Word Stress Matching Between Sections
- Chapter 15. Committing to a Point of View
- Chapter 16. Possessive Pronouns
Part II. Harmony
- Chapter 17. Harmonic Rhythm and Momentum
- Chapter 18. Modes and Chords
- Chapter 19. Alternative Chord Finder
- Chapter 20. Ornament Chords
- Chapter 21. Chord Permutations
- Chapter 22. Harmonic Substitution
- Chapter 23. Playing with Sus Chords
- Chapter 24. Approach Chords
- Chapter 25. Approaching the Approach Chords
Part III. Melody
- Chapter 26. The Melody Snippet
- Chapter 27. Downbeat Word Placement
- Chapter 28. Starting and Ending Notes
- Chapter 29. Modes and Melody
- Chapter 30. Melodic One-Upmanship
- Chapter 31. Melodic Holes
- Conclusion
- About the Author
Songwriting Breakthroughs - Strategies and Prompts for Writing Your Next Song
Songwriting Breakthroughs - Strategies and Prompts for Writing Your Next Song
SKU: 49-814048
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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- Acknowledgments
- Foreword, by Jonathan Feist
- Preface
Part I. Lyrics
- Chapter 1. Your Favorite Songs
- Chapter 2. Lyric Augmenting Using Prosody
- Chapter 3. Songs Sections and Stories
- Chapter 4. The "Mozart Method" for Finding Titles
- Chapter 5. Manipulating Title/Hook Placement
- Chapter 6. Song Mapping in 2D
- Chapter 7. Song Mapping in 3D: But/Therefore
- Chapter 8. Connecting Emotions to the Story
- Chapter 9. Tempo and Its Emotional Effect
- Chapter 10. Rhythmic Density
- Chapter 11. A Process for Finding Rhymes
- Chapter 12. Imperfect Rhymes
- Chapter 13. Descriptions and Metaphors/Similes
- Chapter 14. Word Stress Matching Between Sections
- Chapter 15. Committing to a Point of View
- Chapter 16. Possessive Pronouns
Part II. Harmony
- Chapter 17. Harmonic Rhythm and Momentum
- Chapter 18. Modes and Chords
- Chapter 19. Alternative Chord Finder
- Chapter 20. Ornament Chords
- Chapter 21. Chord Permutations
- Chapter 22. Harmonic Substitution
- Chapter 23. Playing with Sus Chords
- Chapter 24. Approach Chords
- Chapter 25. Approaching the Approach Chords
Part III. Melody
- Chapter 26. The Melody Snippet
- Chapter 27. Downbeat Word Placement
- Chapter 28. Starting and Ending Notes
- Chapter 29. Modes and Melody
- Chapter 30. Melodic One-Upmanship
- Chapter 31. Melodic Holes
- Conclusion
- About the Author
