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Title: The Songwriting Sourcebook: How to Turn Chords Into Great Songs by Rikky Rooksby ISBN: 0-87930-749-8 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You love his approach or you hate it...
Comment: Rooksby has a style that is uniquely his own. He is kind of analyzing the melodic structure that is the basis of any song... Rooskby's approach is probably more like that of John Lennon than George Harrison. If that is your approach to music you will find new perspectives with this book.
I found it helped me not only with guitar and rock, but it also gave a new perspective for composing dance music (although that isn't this books direction)
Rating: 1
Summary: Can't learn what can't be taught
Comment: Ideal purchase for anybody dumb enough to think that good songwriting can be taught in, or learned from, a book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book, great GarageBand Companion
Comment: If you're using Apple's new (and wonderful) GarageBand, buy this (equally wonderful) book.
Rooksby shows virtually every set of chord changes imaginable, explaining when and how you might use them to create your own music. So instead of thrashing around trying to get something that sounds right, you can read Rooksby and understand-and immediately try out-the ideas behind chord changes.
With a program like GarageBand, you can, for example, insert a set of loops (like piano, bass, guitar, drums, etc); you then break these loops into bars and transpose each bar so that the loops create a backing of chord changes for a song. (GarageBand makes this about a 10-second task.) Then plug in your guitar or midi keyboard and go nuts playing lead. You'll have a rock solid and very patient backup group behind you.
The Roman numeral notation Rooksby uses (and other musical pros also use ) is no longer a bunch of abstractions but real music. And not only is the book's content solid, the writing is clear as a Mile Davis solo. A great job, all around.
If you're a musician who doesn't use GarageBand, buy this book anyway if you have the slightest interest in writing songs.
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Title: How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course by Rikky Rooksby ISBN: 0879306114 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Chord Master: How to Choose and Play the Right Guitar Chords by Rikky Rooksby ISBN: 0879307668 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Melody in Songwriting: Tools and Techniques for Writing Hit Songs by Jack Perricone ISBN: 063400638X Publisher: Berklee Press Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Inside Classic Rock Tracks: Songwriting and Recording Secrets of 100+ Great Songs by Rikky Rooksby ISBN: 0879306548 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Chord Progressions for Songwriters by Richard J. Scott ISBN: 0595263844 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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