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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.
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Rikky Rooksby is a composer, songwriter, guitar teacher and writer. He is the author of Backbeat's best-selling How To Write Songs series, and many other books about popular music
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The chord sequence of a song supports and colours the melody (and the words). Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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You love his approach or you hate it...,
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This review is from: The Songwriting Sourcebook: How to Turn Chords into Great Songs (Paperback)
Rooksby has a style that is uniquely his own. He is kind of analyzing the melodic structure that is the basis of any song... Rooskby's approach is probably more like that of John Lennon than George Harrison. If that is your approach to music you will find new perspectives with this book.I found it helped me not only with guitar and rock, but it also gave a new perspective for composing dance music (although that isn't this books direction)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Great book, great GarageBand Companion,
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This review is from: The Songwriting Sourcebook: How to Turn Chords into Great Songs (Paperback)
If you're using Apple's new (and wonderful) GarageBand, buy this (equally wonderful) book. Rooksby shows virtually every set of chord changes imaginable, explaining when and how you might use them to create your own music. So instead of thrashing around trying to get something that sounds right, you can read Rooksby and understand-and immediately try out-the ideas behind chord changes. With a program like GarageBand, you can, for example, insert a set of loops (like piano, bass, guitar, drums, etc); you then break these loops into bars and transpose each bar so that the loops create a backing of chord changes for a song. (GarageBand makes this about a 10-second task.) Then plug in your guitar or midi keyboard and go nuts playing lead. You'll have a rock solid and very patient backup group behind you. The Roman numeral notation Rooksby uses (and other musical pros also use ) is no longer a bunch of abstractions but real music. And not only is the book's content solid, the writing is clear as a Mile Davis solo. A great job, all around. If you're a musician who doesn't use GarageBand, buy this book anyway if you have the slightest interest in writing songs.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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you need to own ALL of rikky rooksby's books.,
By Chris "the most passionate music/film fan alive." (Philly suburbs, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Songwriting Sourcebook: How to Turn Chords into Great Songs (Paperback)
i can't praise rikky's books enough. i have all of them (at least the ones that are still in print). he knows his stuff. get this book, and its companion "how to write songs on guitar", and you're well on your way to making great music. he cites The Smiths and other great bands, in all of his books. now any author who uses the Smiths as an example of songwriting technique is aces in my book. seriously, the amount of knowledge you will get from his books (this one especially) is priceless. you'll never get writer's block again. GET HIS BOOKS. no others come close. -skip from the band beauty's confusion
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