Songwriting - A Complete Guide to the Craft Revised and Updated Edition

Songwriting - A Complete Guide to the Craft Revised and Updated Edition

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by - Michael Aczon

Songwriting: A Complete Guide to the Craft is both a comprehensive course for beginning and experienced songwriters and a rich source of new ideas, inspiration, and tricks of the trade for those who have already achieved professional standing. This fresh new edition not only contains all of the original volume's cogent advice on how to write the always-popular genres – the country song, the ballad, and the love song – but has been revised to include:

Examples of hard rock, acid, heavy metal, bubblegum, hip-hop, salsa, rap, gangsta, reggae, ska, soul, and many other of today's most recorded styles
Finding a song concept, distilling the hook, choosing a form, adding harmony, and selecting rhythm
An appendix telling how to copyright, computerize, notate, record, and sell your song
Full glossary of musical and songwriting terms, an explanation of rap-speak with a useful section on rhyme for rap songs, many musical examples of well-known songs, and a complete index

Unlike other books, Songwriting emphasizes the art – without being arty – and technique of creating a song.

For the novice, Stephen Citron goes step-by-step through the writing of a song presupposing no prior knowledge of notation, harmony, rhythmic values, or rhyme. For the more experienced songwriter, Songwriting will serve as a one-stop reference and as an endless source of fresh ideas.

EAN: 9780879103576

Stock#: 43387
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Pub. Code: HL00332715
UPC: 884088153694
ISBN: 0879103574
Subject: Songwriting
Pages: 356
Weight (lbs): 2.00
Dimensions: 6 x 9 in.
Year: © 2008
List: 19.95
Sale: $17.95

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