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 with author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.

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