The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook: A Radical Guide to Cutting Loose, Overcoming Blocks & Writing the Best Songs of Your Life - Softcover

Karl Coryat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879308796 ISBN 13: 9780879308797

Publisher: Backbeat, 2006

Synopsis

Stop pulling out your hair and crumpling up paper    The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook  blasts away your   
  mental roadblocks so you can tap into your deepest creative resources. Whether you're a total novice or a seasoned    
  pro, whether you're a pencil-and-paper songwriter or a gearhead with way too much recording equipment, whether you    
  just want to go further as a songwriter or throw out everything and start over,  The Frustrated Songwriter's          
  Handbook  will revolutionize the way you write music. It outlines a radical new system   Immersion Music Method       
  designed to help you smash through creative block, become recklessly prolific, and make quantum leaps in your         
  musical and compositional skills. Bursting with mind-blowing tips and games and tales from the trenches of extreme    
  songwriting,  The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook  will show you how to summon those elusive moments of              
  inspiration on command, resulting in rogue creativity and fulfillment you never dreamed possible. You'll learn how    
  to: * Confront and slay your biggest songwriting phobias * Roll over procrastination like an armored tank * Form a    
  self-motivated group of composer friends (a "songwriter lodge") * Concoct new musical styles like a mad scientist *   
  Use technology to supercharge your creativity                                                                        

About this title

Synopsis:

"The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook" lays out a concrete method, called Immersion Composition, for any songwriting musician/composer who experiences creative block. The method forces a musician to actively engage his/her creativity by writing as much music as possible in a set time period. In doing so, the reader will find that those elusive moments of inspiration can actually be summoned on command, resulting in creative productivity and fulfillment the reader never dreamed possible. The book also lays out the framework for forming a group of like-minded songwriters (a "lodge"), presents dozens of tips and games for making the most out of an Immersion Composition session, and shows how to sort through the results of a session and expand/revise the best ideas into finished, polished songs.

About the Author:

Coryat is senior editor of Bass Player.

About this edition

• Publisher: Backbeat
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0879308796
• ISBN 13: 9780879308797
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144