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Summary: Excellent Songwriting Guide
Review: After reading "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Songwriting" I wanted to pick up a pen or go to a piano and write. The author, Joel Hirschhorn, made me feel I could compose a hit. He also has great chapters on record production, as well as helpful lists on who to contact when you want to sell your songs.
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Summary: Here are the musical keys to your songwriting success.
Review: Do you have a secret desire to write songs? Do you have snippets of your songs tucked away in drawers? Do you have some finished lyrics in a neat notebook? Have you put some of your tunes down on tape? Have you actually sold some of your songs? If you answered "yes" to any or all of these questions, then this is the book for you. Joel Hirschhorn's songwriting mastery sings off every page. This is concentrated stuff! Just add your creativity and you are on your way to the top of the charts.
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Summary: Fooled this idiot
Review: I bought this excellent book after my therapist encouraged me to explore my creative side after my wife left me and I lost my job. I may be "quite frankly an insupportable liability to the business" and an "utterly lamentable" bedfellow, but thanks to Citron's tremendous guide I'm tapping a rich vein of material and banging out some fine blues numbers. Soon I plan on getting involved in a whisky-fuelled knife fight in a flop-house in Mississippi for messing with someone's woman.
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Summary: A Fun Book About Songwriting
Review: I don't usually write reviews on books, however, "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Songwriting" is exceptionally well written, making it easy and enjoyable reading. It's very informative, as well as being funny and you don't feel as though you are being lectured to, as is the case with other books that have been written on this subject. It is obvious that the writer is extremely knowledgeable about his craft. With his credentials, which include his experiences in New York's Brill Building, Broadway and Hollywood, along with the hits he has written for such popular and diverse artists such as Elvis Presley, Maureen McGovern and many others. I feel perfectly comfortable in recommending this book to family and friends.
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Summary: Even Idiots make mistakes... but they shouldn't.
Review: I found a glaring factual mistake in the book. I intend to contact the publisher directly to correct the wrong. If the authors let this mistake go out with the copyedited and fact-checked manuscript, how many other errors are within the pages? ...
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Summary: Insights and Education
Review: I'm a songwriter, and I was lucky enough to stumble onto a really helpful, educational book. Not only does it tell how to write a song in detail, it offers tremendous tips on how to sell it. I've been recommending this to all my friends. Best of all, it's written by a pro who succeeded himself, so I feel the information is tryly reliable!
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Summary: Too general
Review: I've been reading and studying a number of different books on songwriting. I got ideas from reading this book, but there isn't enough "meat" to get me real excited. It doesn't take long to read it. If you really want to learn the art and craft of writing music or lyrics, this is a poor book.
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Summary: Too general
Review: I've been reading and studying a number of different books on songwriting. I got ideas from reading this book, but there isn't enough "meat" to get me real excited. It doesn't take long to read it. If you really want to learn the art and craft of writing music or lyrics, this is a poor book.
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Summary: comes packed with hints and helpful insights
Review: So you know how to come up with a song, and you're no idiot - but you're confused by the challenges of rhyming, steady logical beats, and all the elements which translate lyric to music. It's time for the updated second edition of Joel Hirschhorn's Idiot's Guide To Songwriting: a 'bible' to developing lyrics and melodies which go together. From analyzing the elements of a song to understanding dynamic lyric elements and writing for specific musical genres, this comes packed with hints and helpful insights.
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Summary: Insights and Education
Review: This is nothing more than a bad autobiography of the author. A general "name-dropping, let me brag about my accomplishments and never tell you anything about how to accomplish the same things yourself" book. I could have gotten better advice on songwriting from my 9 year old!
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