How to Write a Hit Song: Fifth Revised and Updated Edition

(Book). Covering all the essentials of craft and marketing for launching and sustaining a long, successful writing career, this cutting-edge revision contains an exclusive interview with Oscar-winning songwriter Melissa Etheridge “I Need to Wake Up” and shows you, step by step, how to write a hit song.(Book). Covering all the essentials of craft and marketing for launching and sustaining a long, successful writing career, this cutting-edge revision contains an exclusive interview with Oscar-

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  1. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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    good information but.., June 26, 2012
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    The Remedy (Salt Lake City) –

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    The book does a good job at explaining how to write catchy music. I’ll give her that. If you’re wanting a good guideline for songwriting then I would recommend this book.

    Where I don’t like the book, is she has references to her website so you can listen to certain songs as examples of what she’s explaining.. There was no such songs on her website. I felt like this letdown really took a lot away from the learning experience I’m supposed to have.

    Regardless of the missing lesson helps on her webpage, I listened to some of the music that she has posted as her own and frankly it’s not “hit song” material by a long shot. Bad lyrics, boring singing, boring music. That really turned me off. If this gal is as great as she claims, then why is her personal compositions so below average?

    While I did get a great deal of information about music writing, I was a bit disappointed in the interactive website and definitely turned off by the music she had posted there. It’s hard to take a person seriously on a subject, when they themselves are sounding a bit below par.

    Her website is songmd.com. Head there and check out her songs, then check out her “awards” for her music she’s written. They are most definitely not HITS. Maybe if you’re 50 years old? I didn’t know any of the artists, so I decided to check out what exactly their hit songs were.. yeah, great for really really really old time jammers. None of her songs appear to be hits off the albums, only songs included in the album.

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  2. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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    Awesome book. Inspiring., December 31, 2008
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    Julius Ruth “best band” (Nashville, TN) –

    This review is from: How to Write a Hit Song, 5th Edition (Paperback)
    Awesome book. Learned tons. Inspiring. My band mates and I read all the other books out there on marketing bands/songs to the REAL music biz. This book is the best one, hands down. Read the other book Mollie Leikin wrote, too. “How To Be A Hit Songwriter”. Also amazing.

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  3. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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    Entertaining and enlightening, July 5, 2011
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    Brian K. Miller “Greyhawk” (Wooster, Ohio, USA) –
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    Molly-Ann Leiken presents an insider’s look at the challenging and rapidly changing role of a professional songwriter. When someone with a house full of gold and platinum records sits down and says, “This is how I did it!” the rest of us are blessed to listen and learn.

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