Songwriting Strategies: A 360-Degree Approach (Music: Songwriting)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087639151X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book will help you expand your range and flexibility as a songwriter. It will help you become more productive, versatile, and innovative in your songwriting. Discussions, hands-on exercises, and notated examples will help you hone your craft. Write songs starting from any direction: melody, lyric, harmony, rhythm, or idea. This creatively liberating approach supports the overall integrity of emotion and meaning in your songs. You will learn to: * Discover more ideas for songs song seeds and capture them in their most powerful and usable form * Overcome writer's block by having many more pathways through the writing process * Develop strong song structures by working independently with melody, lyrics, harmony, and rhythm * Write songs more easily, guided by your well-tuned "songwriter's compass". (Berklee Guide)
A must-have on the well-read songwriters' bookshelf! --Bonnie Hayes, Songwriter (Bonnie Raitt, Cher, Bette Midler); Chair of Songwriting, Berklee College of Music"Songwriting Strategies reads like a novel I can't put down. --Alison Krauss, Multiple GRAMMY® Award-Winning ArtistThis book outlines a wholly original approach to songwriting one I've never seen taught in any workshop or read about in any blog, though many established and pro writers use it. --Patty Larkin, Songwriter, Artist/Guitarist . It's the book I wish I'd had when I was coming up. Mark Simos has journeyed deep into the myth and abyss of songwriting, traveling 360 degrees to demystify the craft of songwriting while still embracing the spirit and joy of the art. He's one of those rare people who knows what words sound good together, and his lyrics are just as unique as his melodies. It's a great read and a beautiful book.
Fresh Insights and Language for Song Crafting Simos' thorough approach to songwriting is unlike most other songwriting books as he takes the craft to new technical depths with fresh insights and language in his "360º Approach." This is a book for those willing to invest their time to learn excellent strategies "from stem to stern" in the real craftsmanship of songs - very well done and a fine addition to the already state-of-the art . "many useful things, I have also many a time been" according to s_lyhne. This must be the most comprehensive account on songwriting theory out there. But it is not so much the amount of information, tools and techniques that makes this book a gem -- it is the framework in which this information is organized. Simos' compass model of songwriting is just so elegant and usable. I have been studying songwriting theory for a few years now in hope of a more effective song. Shopper said the best thing about the book is in the fact that. This book is worth more than its selling price and certainly more than the books that specialize in providing laundry lists of random tips and tricks. Instead, this helps you create a full model of how to approach all aspects of songwriting in a systematic way and improve and develop in each of the facets either at once or one by one. Going through the first chapters I found myself nodding a l
. Mark Simos, associate professor in songwriting at Berklee College of Music, is a renowned songwriter, composer and tunesmith, teacher and writer. Over four-plus decades, Mark's songs and tunes from imaginary countries have stretched musical boundaries with innovative melodies and harmonies and intricately crafted lyrics, br