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SONGWRITING STRATEGIES

A 360-Degree Approach; Berklee Guide
Mark Simos
SONGWRITING STRATEGIES
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Edition: Paperback Book

Description: 224 Pages

Write songs starting from any direction: melody, lyric, harmony, rhythm, or idea. This book will help you expand your range and flexibility as a songwriter. Discussions, hands-on exercises, and notated examples will help you hone your craft. This creatively liberating approach supports the overall integrity of emotion and meaning in your songs. It will help you become more productive, versatile, and innovative in your songwriting.

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”

Endorsements:

“Mark Simos is a remarkable songwriter. He's one of those rare people who knows what words sound good together, and his lyrics are just as unique as his melodies. I never stop being amazed at his songs, and I'm never surprised that I love another one.” – Alison Krauss

 
“Songwriting Strategies is an important and valuable book for songwriters, because its approach is to stimulate creativity without prescribing it. Mark Simos provides practical, usable methods to aid the songwriting process, but always shows an understanding that the purpose of a song is to communicate-musically and emotionally. There is no single template for writing a song and this book doesn't try to provide one: rather, it helps songwriters to think of creativity as a complicated journey, and one that can be navigated more easily with the right guide. This book is that guide.” – Joe Bennett, Songwriting Masters Degree Faculty, Bath Spa University, UK

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