![]() ![]() Lyricist, Virtual Studio Systems. Software for creating lyric sheets and chord charts. ![]() Includes word lists that can useful in finding rhymes. One of many online tools (and apps) for naming chords based on a guitar fingering, or finding a fingering based on a chord name, in standard tuning or any alternate tuning.Ĭrossword Solver. Website and apps for finding near rhymes.Ĭhorderator. The classic guide to clear and concise writing. White, The Elements of Style , Allyn and Bacon. Thoughtful guide full of exercises for creative writers. Pat Schneider, Writing Alone and with Others, Oxford. A funny, smart, and encouraging book by a novelist and nonfiction writer. An intense and poetic exploration of the creative process.Īnne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life , Anchor. Literary guidesĪnnie Dillard, The Writing Life , Harper Perennial. New in 2016: a follow-up volume, More Songwriters on Songwriting. Massive collection of craft-oriented interviews. Paul Zollo, Songwriters On Songwriting, Da Capo. Interviews with James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Dave Matthews, and more. Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Rock Troubadours, Stringletter. The sequel, Rise Again Songbook (published in 2015), adds nearly 1,200 more songs, including some more recent pop. Lyrics and chords to 1,200 songs, from folk ballads to '70s rock. Peter Blood and Annie Patterson, eds., Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Sourcebook , Hal Leonard. A deep dive into one songwriter’s process. Jimmy Webb, Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting, Hyperion. The frontman of Wilco lays out his philosophy of creativity and offers guidance and exercises for getting started in songwriting. ![]() Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song, Dutton Books. Detailed theory-based instruction on melody, harmony, rhythm, and chord progressions. Rikky Rooksby, How to Write Songs on Guitar , Backbeat Books. Multimedia guide with tab and video (includes guitar-specific presentations of some of the material in The Complete Singer-Songwriter). Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Songwriting Basics for Guitarists, Stringletter. Authoritative handbook on the lyrical craft. Pat Pattison, Writing Better Lyrics , Writer’s Digest Books. Commercial, pop-oriented approach to writing songs. Robin Frederick, Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting and Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film and TV, Taxi Music Books. Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way, Jeremy P. ![]()
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