They say a craftsman begins by acquiring a basic set of tools and skills and spends the rest of his creative life refining and developing his art. Songwriting is no different. You can count on the fingers of your left hand the number of ...
Author: Casey Kelly
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 9780241884782
Category: Music
Page: 240
View: 282
Now newbie songwriters can learn the craft - and sing their own praises online. Beginning songwriters can hit the right note by starting out with the basics in this guide, including: ? How to create melodies. ? How to create many different harmonies. ? Techniques using deliberate rhythm and stylistic changes. ? How to enable one's songwriting to grow and evolve. ? How to deal with songwriter's block. ? The best places to upload one's work for maximum exposure and opportunities.
'The Art of Songwriting' is a comprehensive guide to life, art and making great songs.It's not about chasing a hit song.
Author: Ed Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 0998130206
Category: Popular music
Page: 192
View: 606
'The Art of Songwriting' is a comprehensive guide to life, art and making great songs.It's not about chasing a hit song. It's not about theories that are interesting but no use filling the blank page. And most of all -- it's not just about the craft of songwriting.It's about how to create, think and live like a songwriter. It's about being resilient, innovative and passionate about what you make. It's about how artists can change the world -- and why they should.
Now newbie songwriters can learn the craft - and sing their own praises online. Beginning songwriters can hit the right note by starting out with the basics in this guide, including: ? How to create melodies.
Author: Casey Kelly
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781101543375
Category: Music
Page: 240
View: 982
Now newbie songwriters can learn the craft - and sing their own praises online. Beginning songwriters can hit the right note by starting out with the basics in this guide, including: ? How to create melodies. ? How to create many different harmonies. ? Techniques using deliberate rhythm and stylistic changes. ? How to enable one's songwriting to grow and evolve. ? How to deal with songwriter's block. ? The best places to upload one's work for maximum exposure and opportunities.
From the legendary pop artist who has given the American songbook an unparalleled number of unforgettable hits comes the definitive guide for aspiring songwriters.
Author: Jimmy Webb
Publisher: Hyperion Books
ISBN: UOM:39015043784548
Category: Music
Page: 458
View: 530
From the legendary pop artist who has given the American songbook an unparalleled number of unforgettable hits comes the definitive guide for aspiring songwriters.
This essential guide tackles that question, alongside many others, taking songwriters through all the developmental phases and commercial experiences along the way in order to inspire and encourage the reader to find their own voice and ...
Author: Andrew West
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781472528117
Category: Music
Page: 272
View: 217
How do you turn songwriting talent into a professional career? This essential guide tackles that question, alongside many others, taking songwriters through all the developmental phases and commercial experiences along the way in order to inspire and encourage the reader to find their own voice and write successfully within their chosen genre. Collating the best-available expertise with fresh ideas about the industry, Andrew West equips the reader with what every productive songwriter needs to know: how to write communicative songs that express meaning and convey individuality; how to develop songs into records; how the writer can function as a marketer and seller of original work; how domestic and international markets operate; and how to act and interact meaningfully within the culture of those market. Armed with this knowledge, the songwriter is able to engage creatively and financially to make the most of their potential.
Author Jennifer MacKay focuses on songwriting from a craft standpoint.
Author: Jennifer MacKay
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781420511277
Category: Young Adult Nonfiction
Page: 112
View: 557
Author Jennifer MacKay focuses on songwriting from a craft standpoint. Because the lyrics themselves are only one part of songwriting, she also covers melody, tempo, and rhythm, and explains how this can differ between genres. A few key influential singers and songwriters are discussed along with the general craft.
This book skipped all those boring essentials and have kept everything to the point, so you can easily & instantly apply the knowledge you learn from the book, into your practical life.
Author: Dara Bowden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9798713169664
Category:
Page: 28
View: 259
The art of songwriting combines many skills. In terms of music, a songwriter or a songwriting team must tackle song structure, melody, harmony, rhythm, and instrumentation. Beyond these musical components, songwriters must also tackle lyric writing. While there's no unifying secret to writing great lyrics, developing a writing process can keep you focused from the first line to the last. The book has purposefully been designed for those who want to learn how to write a song but don't know where to start from. It literally packs everything there is to know about writing a great song, from its structure to its thought process, nothing essential is left out. This book skipped all those boring essentials and have kept everything to the point, so you can easily & instantly apply the knowledge you learn from the book, into your practical life.
If pop is an art (and to a large extent, it is the art of songwriting), it must be conceded to Gainsbourg that it has a very different relation to apprenticeship than that imposed upon a musician educated in scored music.
Author: Agnes Gayraud
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781913029609
Category: Philosophy
Page: 456
View: 783
A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths. In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognized as a modern, technologically mediated art form to rank alongside cinema and photography. In a thoroughgoing engagement with Adorno's fierce critique of "standardized light popular music," Dialectic of Pop tracks the transformations of the pop form and its audience over the course of the twentieth century, from Hillbilly to Beyoncé, from Lead Belly to Drake. Inseparable from the materiality of its technical media, indifferent and intractable to the perspectives of high culture, pop subverts notions of authenticity and inauthenticity, original and copy, aura and commodity, medium and message. Gayraud demonstrates that, far from being the artless and trivial mass-produced pabulum denigrated by Adorno, pop is a rich, self-reflexive artform that recognises its own contradictions, incorporates its own productive negativity, and often flourishes by thinking "against itself." Dialectic of Pop sings the praises of pop as a constitutively impure form resulting from the encounter between industrial production and the human predilection for song, and diagnoses the prospects for twenty-first century pop as it continues to adapt to ever-changing technological mediations.
At some point in time I realized that not all my songwriting was necessarily Art. I had, like many, found the ability to write songs to my own formula, write within a strict timeline, and deliver appropriately.
Author: Gilli Moon
Publisher: Warrior Girl Music
ISBN: 9780957990609
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 130
View: 639
A professional artist and motivational speaker offers artists who have chosen the professional path advice, encouragement, and some hard truths. (Careers/ Jobs)