Songwriting category: 158 books

This book presents a complete methodology for learning how chord progressions work and how to apply these principles to your own creative endeavours.Any chord progression can be seen as a combination of tonic, dominant and subdominant chords.We employ 12 frequently used combinations which we call...

Four years ago the author of this book issued a slender volume of cricket songs. Seven of these are now reprinted; the rest are new. The cricket ball, for the most part, is spoken of as a female. Once or twice the neuter gender is used. Varium et mutabile semper femina. It is hoped...

The book is a collection of poetry and songs I have written over the years. And if you were to read between the lines, you will get an in-depth look at how my life wentall my ups and downs, all my curves and turns, and from being a worldly person to being a saved person. Some of these works are more than forty years old.

(Music Instruction). The hardest song you will ever write is your first. This book is designed to help you accomplish that goal. We're not going to jot down just any song, but one that you are proud of, one that gives you the confidence and the process required to write your second song, your third...

Have you ever wanted to write song lyrics but didn't know where to begin? Did you think it might be too hard? This book will gently guide you through the process of writing your first lyric. Written in an encouraging tone, it will nudge you past the obstacles that might have stopped you before, and...

I was born in January the year of 1934 to Dave, Ethel Ashby Estep. The first of their children of four. My father was a coal miner and was killed in a roof rock fall in 1942. My mother remarried a few years later and had a total of nine children. My mother was a God loving woman and had a lot to do...

(Bass Recorded Versions). A must-have for any bass player! This outstanding 200-song collection features note-for-note bass transcriptions with tab, straight from the original recordings. All styles of music are represented in this massive compilation. Includes: All Apologies * All Shook Up * Another...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Our matching folio to Slipknot's eponymous major label debut features these Des Moines masked marauders at their mega-aggro best! Includes photos and note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 14 songs: Diluted * Eeyore * Eyeless * Liberate * Me Inside * No Life * Only One...

(Easy Guitar). Now even novices can play Black Sabbath with this collection of 18 easier arrangements of their classics in notes and tab. Includes: Black Sabbath * Children of the Grave * Death Mask * Electric Funeral * Fairies Wear Boots * Iron Man * N.I.B. * Paranoid * Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath * Snowblind * Sweet Leaf * War Pigs * and more.

This collection includes a broad variety of poems, rhymes, and stream of conciousness ramblings. Included are songs from obscure music ensembles including FastForward,Cousin Boom, Great Caesar's Ghost, and the legendary tinyHUGE.It is the only complete collection of lyrics from a catalog that spans decades....

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies...

In the second decade of the new millennium it’s apparent that the song writing benchmarks established by these three men at virtually (and remarkably) the same time in history, are still the gold standard by which all that followed is judged. Almost every aspect of the modern songwriter’s art is...

If you are a songwriter yourself, answering all or any of these questions regularly, will undoubtedly put you in the perfect headspace to write songs and perhaps leave you contemplating what comes next for you as a songwriter. If you are like me and you regularly interview songwriters on panels etc....

(Bass Recorded Versions). 16 of Aerosmith's hardest-rocking classics transcribed note-for-note with tablature for bass: Back in the Saddle * Big Ten Inch Record * Come Together * Deuces Are Wild * Dream On * Dude (Looks Like a Lady) * Eat the Rich * Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees) * Janie's...