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Title: 88 Songwriting Wrongs & How to Right Them: Concrete Ways to Improve Your Songwriting and Make Your Songs More Marketable by Pat Luboff, Pete Luboff ISBN: 0-89879-508-7 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Credibility Lacking
Comment: Some decent information in here, but most of it is common sense. The deceptive title doesn't help matters, either. "88 Songwriting Wrongs" implies 88 specific items to help your songwriting, but you don't get 88, unless you consider items such as "Don't Send Songs By Certified Mail" or "Don't Send Songs To A Company Without A Specific Person's Name" as invaluable songwriting tips. (Yes, those are 2 of your 88 songwriting wrongs.)
When the authors do address specific songwriting mistakes, they do provide some good information, but there is a definite "The more you know about music theory, the worse you're going to do as a songwriter" attitude...there's a definite bias against formal music training, as if the authors feel the need to defend their own lack of training, and attack it as a negative quality in the songwriting world. (Tip #28 is where they really lose all credibility.) It would be one thing if this was Lennon/McCartney writing this book, or Taupin/Elton John...but the authors themselves have only a couple of minor songwriting credits themselves (one for Patty LaBelle, of which they remind you about on every other page, seemingly.)
The book is not a total waste, but it's certainly not the be-all and end-all in songwriting aides. You'll learn more about songwriting by studying the actual masters than by reading this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Can't say enough good things about this book
Comment: First off the style in which it was written is really cute. It was lighthearted and extremely fun to read. My favorite thing about it was the little stories it had. Things I never knew, that really inspired me. I liked reading about how famous songs were rejected over and over before getting signed and recorded. If you're feeling rejection or dispair, this book will definitely pick you up. It contains great information on writing lyrics. If only it had some more info on the music part of songwriting. The stories are funny and entertaining and the information is really good. I think this book is absolutely mandatory for any songwriter! I don't give many 5 stars but this book gets 5 easily!
Rating: 4
Summary: equally good and bad
Comment: well, this book is good in how it shows you some of the basic mechanics of songwriting. so this book is good if you are looking to be a songwriter. if you are an artist, it will probably be both seductive and repulsive at the same time. so get it, read it, take the parts you like and use it. and as for the rest, well, you know the saying... love thy enemy.
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Title: 6 Steps to Songwriting Success: Comprehensive Guide to Writing and Marketing Hit Songs by Jason Blume ISBN: 0823084221 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Craft and Business of Songwriting (2nd Edition) by John Braheny ISBN: 1582970858 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Melody in Songwriting : Tools and Techniques for Writing Hit Songs by Jack Perricone ISBN: 063400638X Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison ISBN: 1582970645 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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