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    MusesMuse  |  MusesMuse Homepage:  Songwriting Tips & Tools  |  Links Directory  over 5,000 links songwriting-related  | Muse's Muse Message Boards  |  The Songwriter's Store  |  Music Reviews | Message Board | Artist Spotlights | Web Ring | For Beginners | For Pros | Press Releases | Featured Tool | Featured Book | Songwriter's Toolkit  |  Music Industry Q&A  |  Columnist Menu  |  Find Music-related Software @ SharewareMusicMachine   | REAL ANSWERS TO REAL QUESTIONS, An eBook About Copyright & Publishing  | Musicians Junction - Find collaborators   |  Online Thesaurus & Rhyming Dictionary   |  Club Connection - Clubs to play in around the world   | handy reference guide for beginning songwriters  |
     

    Li'l Hank's Guide For Songwriters  |  About Li'l Hank's Guide  |  Home Page  Li'l Hanks Guide  |  Tales of the Road Warrior  |  Making Your Live Show Your Own  |   Marketing Tips for Indie Artists from Tim Sweeney  |  PRESENTING YOUR DEMO by John Braheney  |   Inspiration Point  |  Open Mic and Showcase Guide  |  The Law Man  |   musical instruction tapes, CD roms and videos  |  Musical Instruments & Accessories  |  Bookstore  |  PRACTICE SAFE SONGWRITING ! (or Thou Shalt Cover Thyself -The Paper Trail)  |  About Music Publishing  |  Links and Resource Page  |  Webrings  |
     

    Notes On Songwriting  |  How To Write A Song  |  "Robin Frederick has composed and produced over 500 songs for record albums and television series. She is a former Director of A&R for Rhino Records and a recording artist with releases on Virgin/Higher Octave Records and Sound Experience Music. The information in this article is from Robin's workshop "You Can Write Hit Songs."   |
     

    SongwritersHelper  |  SongwritersHelper:  Home Page  |  Many helpful articles  |  Song Writing|  Lyrics&Music  |  Song Writing Books  |  Demos and Recording  |  Songwriting Organizations  |  Marketing and Promotion  |  Performing and Evaluations  |  Sheet Music Online  |
     

    Google Directory  |  Songwriting Tips  | 15 reviewd sites  |
     

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    MakeHits  |  Professional guide to making and producing Hit Records  |  Hit Songwriting  |  Recording deals  |  Publishing deals  |   Performing  |
     

    WritingSongs.com  |  Writing  & rewriting melodies  |  Tension and release  |  Recording your songs  |  Songwriting books  | Using real audio  |
     

    ProAudioMusic  |  Songwriting Basics  |  songform explained  |
     

    Jason Blume.com  |  This page will contain different songwriting tips every few weeks  |
     

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    Irene's Songwriting Tips  |  Tips, tricks and info on the craft  &  business of writing songs  |
     

    Kismana  |  Many songwriting tips and articles  |
     

    The Freedom Exchange  |  The Online Songwriters Workshop  |  Written by Dan Monk  |  Thank you for visiting the Freedom Exchange, Dan Gray's online workshop for songwriters. Primarily a songwriters forum showcasing songwriters and their lyrics you can also post your finished songs in our 'All About the Music' forum. Give and receive help on rhyming, meter, chord construction and all aspects of song creation.  |
     

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    Murphy's Laws of Songwriting  |  Ralph Murphy: veteran songwrite r/publisher /producer  |  instructor for NSAI's Song Camps  |
     

    Rhyming Dictionary  |  RhymeZone  |  Type in a word below to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions  |
     

    ASCAP  |  Tips for Facilitating Composer Requests to Set Poetry or Prose to Music  |
     

    Casa.org  |  Songwriting Tips  |  By Sean Altman  -  Former member and founder of Rockapella  |
     

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    MusesMuse  |  The Golden Rules Of Songwriting by David Schindle  |
     

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    WritingSongs  |  What do I do with my songs?  |  Tension release  |
     

    HarmonyCentral  |  New E-Book Reveals the Secrets of Songwriting  |  Analyzing hit songs over the decades to develop basic songwriting principles, Pantomime Music Publications new title is sold as a downloadable e-book
     

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    Ken Hil  |  Songwriting Techniques  l  By: Ken Hill  |  Foundation of Music  |  essay about creating a song  |
     

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    Easy-Song-Writing  |  "The purpose of this website is to provide tools and tips to help you write that first HIT song ..... welcome to Easy-Song-Writing .com"  |   Would you like to write your own songs and hear them playing on the radio?  |  We want to share songwriting secrets with you that could set your musical career on a new path.  |
     

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        * A Good Melody is Like Sex  -   by Michael Anderson
        * Assonance, Alliteration & Payoff Lines       by Jason Blume
        * Choosing a Form   -   by John Braheny
        * Chorus Construction   -   by John Braheny
        * Clichés  -  by John Braheny
        * Developing Successful Song Stuctures  -  By Jason Blume
        * Have a Good Laugh on Me       by Michael Laskow
        * Hooks   -   by John Braheny
        * Janis Ian: Breaking Silence       by Lydia Hutchinson
        * Learning Where the Money Comes From       a two-part article by Jason Blume
        * Pre-Choruses & Bridges  -   by Jason Blume
        * (Ralph) Murphy's Laws: A Look at the #1 Songs of 2002       by Ralph Murphy
        * Rewriting Lyrics  -  by Jason Blume
        * Rewriting: Your Essential Tool Kit  -  by John Braheny
        * Road Rally 2003 Hit Songwriters Panel       Q&A with five hit songwriters
        * Road Rally 2004 Success Stories Panel       Q&A with five successful TAXI members
        * Sarah McLachlan Finds her Walden Pond       by Bill DeMain
        * Shawn Colvin: Born To Be Telling Her Story       by Lydia Hutchinson    *
        * Song Dynamics: Getting Their Attention   -   by John Braheny
        * Song Construction:  Repetition  -  by John Braheny
        * Stairway to Your First Cut  -  a two-part article by Jerry Vandiver and Gracie Hollombe
        * Steve Seskin Shares Secrets       Rally 2002: Moderated by Michael Laskow
        * TAXI Links: Songwriter Associations       an organized list of associations
        * Ten Tips for Building Stronger Songs   -   by Peter & Pat Luboff
        * The Basic Forms  -  a two-part article  -  by John Braheny
        * The Importance of Contrast   -  by Jai Josefs
        * The Song That Changed the World       by Kenny Kerner
        * Types of Songwriter Agreements       by Jeffrey & Todd Brabec
        * Visualizing a Hit  -  by Jason Blume

    From Lyrical Line  |  19 More Songwriting Tips  |  By Ken Hill   |
     

    LyricPro  |  The Twelve Steps To Competitive Songwriting  |
     

    BerkleeShares  |  Songwriting & Arranging  |  dlownloadable lessons  |
     

    MusicBooksPlus  |  The Craft and Business of Songwriting, Second Edition
     

    LyricalLine  |  Music Business: 19 More Songwriting Tips © 2003 By Ken Hill
     

    EasySongWriting  |  Songwriting tips and articles
     

    Musical Theory For Songwriters  |  Scales, chords and variations  |  Also, links and webrings for songwriters  |
     

    Paramount Group  |  Nashville songwriting service and songwriter management company  |  Provides a service overview, audio samples and contact information  |  "If you're ready...... to do something great with your songwriting or learn about songwriting – even if you write lyrics, but not music -- you're finally in the right place at the right time."  |
     

    SongStuff  |  "SongCraft.FishStoryMusic.com is an online community dedicated to helping the singer/songwriter develop his or her craft and career. We are here to serve the songwriting community by providing resources that enable us as artists to find our voice, hone our skills and make smart decisions, enabling us to continue doing what we love"  |

    SongCraft.FishStoryMusic  |  The SF Community Message Board  |  The SF Bookstore  |  SFJukeBox  |  SFNews  |  Public Library  |  Blue Pages Directory  |
     

    Cyberfret: Music Composition
     

    Upcoming.org  |   Media in transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
     

    MediaWebSource  |  Songwriting Articles  |  Music Industry Resources including the government copyright website, band promotion sites, publishing companies, record company web sites  |
     

    Every Song Tells A Story…|  But Does It Need To Be An Abstract Novel? / Musicdish

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    Songwriting Essential Guide to Rhyming

    88 Songwriting Wrongs & How to Right Them:Concrete Ways to Improve Your Songwriting and Make Your Songs More Marketable

    The Craft and Business of Songwriting, Second Edition

    How to Write Songs on Guitar  |  A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course

    The Songwriting Sourcebook  |  How to Turn Chords Into Great Songs

    Songwriting for Dummies

    The Craft of Lyric Writing

    The Songwriter's Workshop: Melody

    You've Written A Song, So Now What?

    Fretboard Logic SE  |  The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning + Chords Scales and Arpeggios Complete (The Fretboard Logic Guitar Method Parts  I

    Hearing and Writing Music  |  Professional Training for Today's Musician (2nd Edition)

    The Songwriters Idea Book: 40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow

    Songwriters on Songwriting

    2005 Song Writer's Market

    Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting

    Rock Troubadours:  Conversations on the Art and Craft of Songwriting with Jerry Garcia, Ani DiFranco, Dave Matthews, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, and More

    FastTrack Lead Singer Method - Book 1

    The Craft and Business of Songwriting (2nd Edition)

    Melody in Songwriting  |  Tools and Techniques for Writing Hit Songs (Berklee Guide)

    The Songwriting Sourcebook  |  How to Turn Chords Into Great Songs

    6 Steps to Songwriting Success  |  The Comprehensive Guide to Writing and Marketing Hit Songs

    Writing the Broadway Musical

    Computer Music  |  The Complete Guide For Mac And Pc - Includes Cd-Rom

    How to Write Songs on Guitar: |   A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course


     
     
     
     
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    The Craft and Business of Songwriting

    by John Braheny  |  About the Author  |  John Braheny is the co-founder/director for the Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase, a national non-profit service organization for songwriters. He conducts seminars throughout the U.S. and offers one-on-one consultations with writers, writer/artists and businesses. He lives in North Hollywood, California.

        Discover the secrets of successful songwriting with this essential guide! Cofounder of the Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase John Braheny teaches you the craft of songwriting while going behind the scenes of the music business to reveal insider secrets that will make your work stand out. Dozens of exercises, examples and anecdotes from songwriters such as Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, TLC, Lenny Kravitz and Paul McCartney will you show you how to: develop a songwriter's consciousness; overcome barriers in the creative process; write in all musical styles, and for film and TV; and skillfully manage the business of demos and contracts. This updated edition also covers online opportunities for songwriters."A practical street-level look at today's world of songwriting ... Read and learn."- Diane Warren, six-time ASCAP Songwriter of the Year with more than 50 Top 10 hits
     
     
     

    Music Write Songwriter Edition  |  by Voyetra

    Description
    MusicWrite Songwriter Edition is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to compose and print professional-looking scores right away. Use your MIDIkeyboard or mouse to enter your music, then add lyrics, dynamics, ties,triplets, orchestral markings, and more. Play your piece back on yourcomputer or synthesizer and then print out the parts.

    With MusicWrite Songwriter Edition, you can cut, copy, and paste music into your score just like a word processor. Play your music on a MIDI keyboardand see it transcribed into notation on your PC screen. Print your score,complete with your name, song title, copyright information, and more, inany Microsoft Windows font. Add chord names and guitar symbols. The loop function lets you try different ideas in real time by playing your song whilewhile you are editing and entering notes. Use the symbol palette to enter rests, clefs, chords, and more. Add up to two lines of lyrics. MusicWrite supports all of the common musical symbols, including triplets, ties, and orchestral markings. When finished, preview your score and hit print.
     
     
     

    Singing for the Stars  |  Seth Riggs

    A Complete Program for Training Your Voice (Book & 2 CD's)

    Product Description:
    What do Michael Jackson, Anita Baker, Natalie Cole and hundreds of other professionals have in common? They all study voice with Hollywood’s leading vocal coach, Seth Riggs. You can learn to sing like the pros with this complete program for training the voice.
     
     
     

    The Songwriters Idea Book  |  Sheila Davis

     

    40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow

    From Book News, Inc.
    Presuming familiarity with the major music forms and the basics of rhyme, rhythm, and plot development, Davis offers sophisticated strategies to create distinctive treatments of classic themes as well as original song titles. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

    Product Description:
    This book reveals the inherent relationship between personality type, brain function and writing style. Includes 40 proven songwriting strategies - guaranteed to spark songwriters' imaginations.
     
     
     
     

    How to Write Songs on Guitar  |  Rikky Rooksby

    A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course

    Guitarist:  "An extremely valuable source book for wannabe songwriters as well as a highly readable journey of the popular song."

    Product Description:
    Rikky Rooksby helps you transform your guitar-playing skills into creative songwriting techniques. Using well-known songs as examples, plus lots of easy-to-read graphics, he explains and demonstrates how lyrics, melody, harmony, and rhythm work in a song. Rikky's straightforward style will have you up and writing on your guitar with easeâ€"even if you never have before.

    You'll learn how to write words to melodies and vice versa; how to understand, develop, and embellish a melody; how chords create harmony; and how tempos and time signatures differ. The book also analyzes classic and unusual song structures and their elementsâ€"from intros to bridges to codasâ€"and discusses the benefits and problems of writing songs on different kinds of guitars.
     
     
     
     

    Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure  |  Pat Pattison

    Product Description:
    Veteran songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest students how to write truly great lyrics. Her helpful guide contains essential information on lyric structures, timing and placement, and exercises to help everyone from beginners to seasoned songwriters say things more effectively and gain a better understanding of their craft. Features examples of famous songs for study, including: Be Still My Beating Heart * Can't Fight This Feeling * It Was a Very Good Year * Tickle Me * and more
     
     
     
     

    How to Write a Hit Song  |  Molly-Ann Leikin

    The Complete Guide to Writing and Marketing Chart-Topping Lyrics and Music

    Guitarist:  "An extremely valuable source book for wannabe songwriters as well as a highly readable journey of the popular song."

    Product Description:
    Rikky Rooksby helps you transform your guitar-playing skills into creative songwriting techniques. Using well-known songs as examples, plus lots of easy-to-read graphics, he explains and demonstrates how lyrics, melody, harmony, and rhythm work in a song. Rikky's straightforward style will have you up and writing on your guitar with easeâ€"even if you never have before.

    You'll learn how to write words to melodies and vice versa; how to understand, develop, and embellish a melody; how chords create harmony; and how tempos and time signatures differ. The book also analyzes classic and unusual song structures and their elementsâ€"from intros to bridges to codasâ€"and discusses the benefits and problems of writing songs on different kinds of guitars.
     
     
     
     

    Melody in Songwriting

     Tools and Techniques for Writing Hit Songs (Berklee Guide)  |  by Jack Perricone

    Product Description:
    Discover songwriting techniques from the hit makers! This comprehensive guide unlocks the secrets of hit songs, examining them, and revealing why they succeed. Learn to write memorable melodies and discover the dynamic relationships between melody, harmony, rhythm, and rhyme. Fine-tune your craft and start writing hits!

    Jack Perricone is a great admirer (and practitioner!) of the pop song, and in this book he outlines successful strategies for songwriters to get back IN the groove, or to break OUT of their writing "ruts". Granted, this material may seem rather "heady" at times, and less intuitive than we like to think creativity is, but when you need a jumpstart to get back on track, you'll be glad to have this assortment of options at hand. Although this book is nominally about Melody only, the author includes all other song components as they interact, and provides a fresh perspective and analysis on how and why certain songs reach us and connect with the public. There's as much respect shown toward rock and blues songs as more traditional pop, and a lot of very valuable stuff for writers of ALL styles of songs.
     
     
     
     

    Solo : Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words  -  Marc Woodworth

    Sarah McLachlan:
    "When I sang and played I'd get completely lost in what I was doing. During that time, I was no longer this stupid, useless little ten-year-old who didn't have any friends. I was someplace else, where none of that could touch me."

    Jewel:
    "Fame exists in other people's minds. I can't experience my own fame at all but I experience it in other people's eyes when I look at them and see that they're scared."

    Shawn Colvin:
    "Giving up addiction was the springboard into adult thinking. I realized that everything was a choice. The world was an open book. Nothing was the same after that."

    Sheryl Crow:
    "I always pictured myself as a loner off living like a Jack Kerouac character or, worse, someone out of a Charles Bukowski book, one of those down-and-outers who works at a gas station and has no one and no family."

    Lucinda Williams:
    "I don't want to offend anyone, but I like to push people's buttons. While I want to appeal to people in all walks of life, I also want to get a response, make them think."
     
     
     
     

    Writing Better Lyrics  -  by Pat Pattison

     

    About the Author
    Pat Pattison is a professor of music and songwriting at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he developed the curriculum for their degree in songwriting--the first of its kind anywhere. He was a regular contributor to Home and Studio Recording Magazine. He lives in North Hampton, New Hampshire.

    Product Description:
    Pattison presents a unique, in-depth approach to the process of lyric writing. Apprentice songwriters will examine 17 extraordinary songs and learn the distinct elements that make them so effective. Pattison then presents more than 30 lyric-writing exercises designed to help them achieve the same results. From generating lyric ideas and managing repetition to developing verses, it's all here. Songwriters will:

    * find warm-up exercises that revolutionize songwriting imagery
    * use a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus to generate ideas and find snappy rhymes
    * create meaningful metaphors and similes while avoiding clichés
    * develop verses by using or by breaking conventional rules
    * experiment with point of view in every lyric to make a song stand out
     
     
     
     

    Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure  -   Pat Pattison

    Product Description:
    Veteran songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest students how to write truly great lyrics. Her helpful guide contains essential information on lyric structures, timing and placement, and exercises to help everyone from beginners to seasoned songwriters say things more effectively and gain a better understanding of their craft. Features examples of famous songs for study, including: Be Still My Beating Heart * Can't Fight This Feeling * It Was a Very Good Year * Tickle Me * and more
     
     
     
     

    The Complete Rhyming Dictionary  -  by Clement Wood

    From the Publisher
    This simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to meet the needs of today's most demanding wordsmiths. Included here are over 10,000 new entries--over 60,000 in all, sight, vowel, consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes.

    From the Inside Flap
    This simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to meet the needs of today's most demanding wordsmiths. Included here are over 10,000 new entries--over 60,000 in all, sight, vowel, consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes.
     
     
     
     

    Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure  | by Pat Pattison

    Tools and Techniques for Writing Better Lyrics

    Description:
    Veteran songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest students how to write truly great lyrics. Her helpful guide contains essential information on lyric structures, timing and placement, and exercises to help everyone from beginners to seasoned songwriters say things more effectively and gain a better understanding of their craft. Features examples of famous songs for study, including: Be Still My Beating Heart * Can't Fight This Feeling * It Was a Very Good Year * Tickle Me * and more.

    Pat Pattison has been teaching lyric song writing and poetry at Berklee College of Music since 1975, and has played an integral part in developing Berklee's songwriting program, which was the first complete songwriting degree program to be offered anywhere, and is arguably the best in the world. Among the many other vast contributions Pat makes to the music industry, he also spends a lot of time writing in Nashville, works for TV and film, and does a ton of workshops and clinics all over the world.

    In the forward of "Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure" Pat indicates that "This is not a general book on lyric writing...it's specific purpose is to help you handle your lyric structure more effectively."

    This is great because, instead of trying to deal with all aspects of lyric writing in a diluted overview, Pat instead, offers a very concentrated and detailed discourse on the aspect of song craft that seems to be most absent in most songwriters background...the deliberate use of structure.
     
     
     
     

    Music Publishing: A Songwriter's Guide  |  Randy Poe

    Description:
    Music Publishing: A Songwriter'