Songwriting Basics for Guitarists
Everything you need to get started writing your own songs or to take your songwriting craft to the next level—from “pre-writing” tips and tricks for generating ideas that can serve as the basis for new songs, to making the most of your guitar as a writing tool, to strategies for changing the chords, feel, tonality, and time signatures of existing songs to develop ideas for new songs of your own. Includes chapters on essential major- and minor-key progressions and blues/rock changes, as well as exercises, resources, charts, and advice from songwriting specialists such as Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and others. Plus over 65 minutes of video!
Includes:
- Start Writing Songs
- Unlocking I-IV-V Chord Progressions
- Free Writing
- Writing Songs With a Guitar
- 21 Songwriting Tips from the Masters
- Major-Key Progressions
- Minor-Key Progressions
- Blues / Rock Changes
- Simple Chord Substitutions
- Rewriting Other Songs
- How to Write a Bridge
