How to Write a Hit Song: The Complete Guide to Writing and Marketing Chart-Topping Lyrics & Music
(Book). How to Write a Hit Song is the only complete guide to composing lyrics and music and getting your songs on the air. It covers everything aspiring songwriters must know to be successful, from creating memorable lyrics, composing the melody, and crafting song structure to collaborating, finding a publisher, and recording a song. This revised edition includes a new section on marketing your music on the Internet.
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a book that promises much but doesn’t deliver,
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|Not worth very much,
I have to say in all honesty that this book was one of the worst books on the subject I have ever read. The title itself is very misleading. One would expect a book that would teach one the mechanics of songwriting. However, it does nothing of the sort. What it does convey is nothing but a few tips by a person that thinks she is an expert because she had a song with Placido Domingo three million years ago. For instance, she mentions the importance of having a compelling title, which seems a bit obvious to me and something one could have found in any book on songwriting (in no more than a paragraph’s length). She talks about what she considers to be important in a title BUT NOT HOW TO WRITE A GOOD TITLE. It would seem as if she wrote this book solely to legitimize herself as an expert, and as a result, begin to charge people for consultation services.
This book does NOT in the least cover:
1. Harmony
2. Melody construction
3. Lyric writing (with the exception of a couple tips like not having to rhyme on the last word)
Let me recommend a few books that you will be better equipped with:
On writing Melodies:
1. Melody in Songwriting, by Pat Perricone
2. The Songwriter’s Workshop: Melody, by Jimmy Kachulis
3. Writing Music For Hit Songs by Jai Josefs
4. Exercises in melody-writing, by Percy Goetschius (Excellent)
5. Composing Music, by William Russo
Harmony:
1. Writing Music For Hit Songs, by Jai Josefs
2. Composing Music, by William Russo
3. The Chord Scale Theory and Jazz Harmony by Barrie Nettles (although it says Jazz, the Harmony of Popular music is extremely similar to that of Jazz)
Lyrics:
1. Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison (The master of Lyric writing. The teacher of John Mayer and Diana Krall among others)
Business of Songwriting:
2. This Business of Songwriting by Jason Blume
P.S. This book was written 10 years ago and is completely out of date using examples such as, “My Addidas,” by Run DMC which no one will probably know of this generation.
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|How to write a hit song is short and to the point! Just get it!!!!!!,
The book is organized very well by chapters as follows:
1. Song structure
2.The melody
3. Rhyming
4. The all important title
5.Collaborationg
6.Making time to write
7.Stimulating creativity
8.Overcoming writing Blocks
9.Publishing your songs
10.Making money in the meantime
11.Seasons
12.Music on the internet
THis is the newest addition. It is the 4th edition and I especially like the chapters about marketing your songs. This was a great help, becuase most musicians do not have a clue what to do with their songs and who to send them to.
Buy this book… it is a great resource for all singer songwriters!
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