1000 Songwriting Ideas

It all starts with an idea! From melodies to lyrics, great songs need great ideas to spark the creative energy that will help you write your next big hit. 1000 Songwriting Ideas is a handy book of creative exercises that stop writer's block and turn your imagination into a powerful songwriting machine. The book offers a thousand concepts to ponder as starting points for lyric and melody writing, along with some of the most provocative and inspirational examples you may encounter anywhere. These proven exercises move the lyrical self, stir the melodic soul, and give you the power to be the creative songwriter you've always wanted to be.

This book is a compilation of all three 'Song Ideas' books by Songwriter Rick Wicker and it's being offered to you at a discounted price. There are 4,400 song ideas/titles/phrases and hooklines to stimulate the user's imagination in unexpected ways. They are designed to jumpstart the creative writing process by providing titles, phrases and starting points with strong development potential. The initial phase of writing is addressed from the perspective that verses and choruses follow and support a strong central idea. Starting off with an interesting turn of phrase or a catchy title can give focus to your writing. This book is not a step-by-step guide to songwriting. HookBooks such as this one are used by many successful songwriters. The benefit to you is greater creativity which can help take your writing to the next level. It may provide just what you're looking for if you experience occasional "Writer's Block".

Stuck? Blocked? Short of inspiration? Don't be - get writing instead. The Ultimate Book of Song Starters is the game-changing compilation of 501 powerful, creative and varied ideas for writing new songs in any genre or style. The starters include song prompt-style idea starters to get you inspired by new situations and concepts. They include word starters to help you find interesting new titles. They include chord starters and rhythm starters to stimulate inventive grooves and catchy melodies. There are also plenty of interesting miscellaneous starters that will get you thinking about songwriting in new and fresh ways. If you're ready to step out of your comfort zone or feel like you're spending too long thinking up song ideas instead of writing - you don't have to sit around waiting for inspiration to hit you. Dive into The Ultimate Book of Song Starters and never be short of an exciting new song idea again.

The classic collection of candid interviews with the greatest songwriters of our time, including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Patti Smith, Paul Simon, Tom Petty, and dozens more This expanded fourth edition of Songwriters on Songwriting includes ten new interviews--with Alanis Morissette, Lenny Kravitz, Lou Reed, and others. In these pages, sixty-two of the greatest songwriters of our time go straight to the source of the magic of songwriting by offering their thoughts, feelings, and opinions on their art. Representing almost every genre of popular music, from blues to pop to rock, here are the figures that have shaped American music as we know it.

Music is a universal language, and John Braheny speaks it eloquently as he helps prepare us for our big musical break--by teaching us the craft of songwriting and revealing secrets of the music business. Includes anecdotes, exercises, and examples from dozens of songwriters, such as Harry Chapin, Paul McCartney, and many others.

In her first two books, Sheila Davis classified the major song forms and enduring principles that have been honored for decades by America's foremost songwriters. Those books have become required reading in music courses from NYU to UCLA. In The Songwriters Idea Book, Davis goes one step further, giving you 40 strategies for designing distinctive songs. You'll break new ground in your own songwriting by learning about the inherent relationship between language style, personality type and the brain. • You'll go, step by step, through the creative process as you activate, incubate, separate and discriminate. • You'll learn to use the whole-brain techniques of imaging, brainstorming and clustering. • You'll expand your skilled use of figurative language with paragrams, metonyms, synecdoche and antonomasia. • You'll be challenged to design metaphors, form symbols, make puns and coin words. • And, you'll learn how to prevent writer's block, increase your productivity and maintain your creative flow. Over 100 successful student lyrics from pop, country, cabaret, and theater serve as role-models to illustrate the "whole-brain" songwriting process.

Whether you are new to songwriting or have written hundreds of songs, "The Songwriter's Journal" should be within arm's reach whenever the mood to write a new tune strikes. It is packed with the fuel you need to ignite the imagination and provides you with more ideas than you could ever hope to write about. With hundreds of entries designed specifically to spark the muse within, the book should reside on every songwriter's bookshelf or desk. It includes songwriting exercises, chord progressions for new songs, word association exercises, ideas to write new songs about, note sequences for new songs, power words to include in your lyrics, items that belong in every songwriter's toolkit and much more.

Thousands of people have already found inspiration in Lisa Aschmann's 500 Songwriting Ideas, a best-selling book with huge ideas about how to write better songs. Now, the book returns to print with 250 more ideas and a bonus CD of music that puts Aschmann's great ideas into practice! You'll find suggestions for outrageous places to discover new song ideas, visualization techniques to open up trains of thought, and motivational support to get you through those rough spots. 750 Songwriting Ideas contains everything you need to keep your songwriting juices flowing so that you can be as creative - and successful - as you can be. 1-931140-32-4 February Lisa Aschmann is a Nashville-based songwriter, performer and author. She has released four CDs on her own label, Nashville Geographic, and continues to write, perform and collaborate on many ongoing musical projects.

Songwriter/Author Rick Wicker presents an invaluable collection of 3,000 Titles, Phrases, Hooklines and Starting Points to inspire songwriters, lyricists and poets. The concept behind this book is to create an emotional stirring that leads the reader into a creative state of writing and a place of interpersonal perspectives. It is meant to be used as a first step reference guide to assist you on your unique journey of self expression. The words and ideas that are included can help writers looking to break through periods of Writers Block. This book is not a step-by-step guide to songwriting. It addresses the initial phase of song/lyric writing from which the writer can glean inspiration. The titles and phrases are listed in alpha-numeric order with space provided after each for you to write down your thoughts and build on the themes within the phrases. Even the casual reader will find their imagination stimulated in unexpected ways. The benefit to you is increased creativity.

Your greatest desire is for your original songs to be recorded, released, and broadcast. But do you have a realistic plan to make this dream your reality? Author and hit tunesmith Rand Bishop draws from 40 years of on-the-job experience while visiting with some of the most-honored song crafters of the last five decades, unveiling a long-term strategy for building a career composing hit songs. The lessons, essays, quotations, and profiles in this book reveal how a Song Dog becomes Top Dog.