Six Steps to Songwriting Success: The Comprehensive Guide to Writing and Marketing Hit Songs
Drawing on his experience as a hit-making songwriter and song writing instructor, Jason Blume presents an easy to understand, step-by-step approach to mastering those key elements consistently found in hit songs. Incorporating inspiring anecdotes, effective exercises, and common sense checklists for self-evaluation, 6 Steps to Songwriting Success provides a concise analysis of the six steps essential to song writing success – developing successful song structures, writing effective lyrics, compo
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|A complete A to Z guide!,
Highly reccommended!
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|Good advice on writing better lyrics but not much else…..,
Jokes aside, this book has really good advice on song structure and writing better lyrics. It contains a lot of information that can help you turn an average song into a really good one. Cynics might suggest that this book is all about writing generic radio play, but Jason Blume’s advice is really about writing effective lyrics. The only real reason for buying this book should be the information on lyric writing. It also contains a detailed explanation of how the music industry operates, which is useful but, the rest of the book is fairly poor.
Where this book fails is in it’s explanation on writing better music. It contains a whole section on melody that essentially boils down to general tips on varying the melody, and contains almost no musical theory. By his own admission, Jason Blume is not really strong on musical theory, and it shows (he completely ignores chords – kind of a big deal!). If you want a good book on writing better melodies try “Melody: How to Write Great Tunes” by Rick Rooksby (ISBN: 0879308192) as it actually explains the musical theory behind writing melodies in great detail.
This book also contains a fairly long section on recording demos that is fairly poor. The book ends with chapter aimed at motivating you to keep trying until you make your big break.
In summation, there are probably less then 100 pages of useful information in this book, and all of it focuses on song structure and lyric writing. The rest of this book is covered in much more useful detail elsewhere. If you want to improve the structure and lyrics of your songs this book is definitely worth the price, otherwise I would pass.
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