Songcrafters’ Coloring Book: The Essential Guide to Effective and Successful Songwriting

Songcrafters’ Coloring Book is a groundbreaking approach to the art, craft, and business of songwriting. This is a book is about choices — your choices. The choices you make as a songwriter which cause your songs to get the reaction you hope for, or the one you don’t expect; The choices which determine whether your song sells a thousand copies, a million copies, or never goes beyond your studio shelf.

By looking at the individual components of songs, those choices become clear to y

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  1. 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Dense read but fantastic resource, March 31, 2011
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    Gregory Mohler (Atlanta, GA USA) –
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    Don’t let the title fool you- this book is bazonkers dense, with a few really difficult sections (which the author acknowledges up front). But he exhaustively covers the “craft” side of songwriting, with a lot of info on word choice and matching lyrical cadence to musical rhythm. He gives a lot of ideas and techniques for improving songwriting skills across the board. After reading this book, I realized why so many of my crappier songs didn’t really work, and it inspired me to go back, fix things, and start writing better. If you want to build your songwriting abilities, get this book. There’s very little fluff, all hearty skill-building crunch.

    I reluctantly deduct a star because some of the sections rely heavily on Meyers-Briggs, a personality-classification system that makes for some fun web-surveys but, in my opinion, is about as useful as astrology. M-B comes up in the book because the author is trying get across the idea that songwriters tend to be introverted and idea-based, while the listening public on average is extroverted and concrete-concept based. Leaving aside that he does all this in the acronym-happy M-B terminology, I found the use of M-B to be needlessly reductionist.

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  2. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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    Stay Inside the Lines?, January 6, 2010
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    Shaun A. Klopfenstein (Fremont, CA) –
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    Bill’s many years of experience as a songwriter shine through on every page of this book. His wry sense of humor and knowledge of his craft makes this book enjoyable and very readable whether you already have a passion for the art or if you are discovering or rediscovering a love for songwriting. The scope of his book is unparalleled, yet does not bog the reader down with jargon. A Coloring Book it may be, but Bill shows you the lines and encourages you to make informed choices whether to color inside or outside of them.

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  3. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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    Bill Pere has successfully written a “captivating” text book– a “must read”, April 9, 2010
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    C. Dahl (Boston, MA USA) –
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    I purchased Bill’s book online and was immediately impressed. What I found between the pages was a sense of reassurance that as a songwriter, I can do anything I want with my music and it won’t be “wrong” but that there are also choices to be made about my songs in order to craft them so that they are most appealing to the broadest possible audience. What Bill teaches is insight into this decision making process so that songwriters can make informed choices with an understanding of the expected outcome.

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