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How to Write Songs on Keyboards: A Complete Course to Help You Write Better Songs [With CD]

How to Write Songs on Keyboards: A Complete Course to Help You Write Better Songs [With CD]

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rikky RooksbyPublish date:2005-10-01
Language:EnglishPublisher:Backbeat BooksISBN-13:9780879308629ISBN-10:879308621UPC:9780879308629Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Instruction & Study, Musical InstrumentsBook Topic:Songwriting, Piano & KeyboardSize:11.10 x 8.60 x 0.65 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCPGFBVZW6
This book helps both keyboard and guitar players to find and develop interesting chords and chord sequences on a keyboard, and then use them to write their own songs. Rather than trying to teach intricate pieces of music, the book breaks things down into a simpler style and concentrates on basic chords and ideas, starting with a simple three-chord song and gradually adding more complex structures. A visual system that virtually eliminates the use of standard music notation allows guitarists who are used to using guitar tablature to feel totally at home. Songwriting issues are also analyzed, including key changes and writing songs in minor keys. The straightforward style of this book will have musicians writing on a keyboard with ease - even if they never have before. All 90 examples are recorded and accessed online for download or streaming.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Backbeat BooksISBN-13:9780879308629ISBN-10:879308621UPC:9780879308629Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Instruction & Study, Musical InstrumentsBook Topic:Songwriting, Piano & KeyboardSize:11.10 x 8.60 x 0.65 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCPGFBVZW6
Rooksby, Rikky: - Rikky Rooksby is a guitar teacher, songwriter/composer, and writer on popular music. He is the author of How to Write Songs on Guitar (2000, revised edition 2009), Inside Classic Rock Tracks (2001), Riffs (2002, revised edition 2010), The Songwriting Sourcebook (2003, revised edition 2011), Chord Master (2004, revised edition 2016), Melody (2004), Songwriting Secrets: Bruce Springsteen (2005), How to Write Songs on Keyboards (2005), Lyrics (2006), Arranging Songs (2007), How to Write Songs in Altered Guitar Tunings (2010), and Songs and Solos (2014). He has also written fourteen Fastforward guitar tutors and arranged over three dozen chord songbooks, including The Complete Beatles. He has written entries on rock musicians for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and published interviews, reviews, and transcriptions in many UK music magazines. He is a member of the Society of Authors, Sibelius One, and the Vaughan Williams Society
Publisher: Backbeat Books

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