Now in its 2nd edition, How Music REALLY Works!: The Essential Handbook for Songwriters, Performers, and Music Students, is the classic "how-to" manual for anyone interested in playing, singing, or writing emotionally powerful music. The book focuses on specific techniques a player, vocalist, or songwriter can use to seize the attention of listeners and move them emotional Now in its 2nd edition, How Music REALLY Works!: The Essential Handbook for Songwriters, Performers, and Music Students, is the classic "how-to" manual for anyone interested in playing, singing, or writing emotionally powerful music. The book focuses on specific techniques a player, vocalist, or songwriter can use to seize the attention of listeners and move them emotionally. For the benefit of the majority of musicians (amateur and pro) who do not read music, the book contains no music notation. Instead it provides in-depth, visually-oriented, easy-to-understand (and humorous!) text and graphics covering every important aspect of music-making.
How Music Really Works: The Essential Handbook for Songwriters, Performers, and Music Students
Now in its 2nd edition, How Music REALLY Works!: The Essential Handbook for Songwriters, Performers, and Music Students, is the classic "how-to" manual for anyone interested in playing, singing, or writing emotionally powerful music. The book focuses on specific techniques a player, vocalist, or songwriter can use to seize the attention of listeners and move them emotional Now in its 2nd edition, How Music REALLY Works!: The Essential Handbook for Songwriters, Performers, and Music Students, is the classic "how-to" manual for anyone interested in playing, singing, or writing emotionally powerful music. The book focuses on specific techniques a player, vocalist, or songwriter can use to seize the attention of listeners and move them emotionally. For the benefit of the majority of musicians (amateur and pro) who do not read music, the book contains no music notation. Instead it provides in-depth, visually-oriented, easy-to-understand (and humorous!) text and graphics covering every important aspect of music-making.
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Stephen Souza –
This is a fantastic book with a a lot of invaluable information. There is NO music notation used at all in the book. I have had this book for many years now and still refer back to it. It's not only packed with valuable info, it also has a comical side at times. I liked learning to create Chase Charts to analyze songs. Like the tile says, How Music Really Works is The Essential Handbook For Songwriters, Performers, And Music Students. You can check out the First 6 Chapters of More than 400 Page This is a fantastic book with a a lot of invaluable information. There is NO music notation used at all in the book. I have had this book for many years now and still refer back to it. It's not only packed with valuable info, it also has a comical side at times. I liked learning to create Chase Charts to analyze songs. Like the tile says, How Music Really Works is The Essential Handbook For Songwriters, Performers, And Music Students. You can check out the First 6 Chapters of More than 400 Page at the original website for FREE! That's close to half the book for FREE.
David Moore –
Brilliantly helpful but the author strongly promotes atheist opinions and should keep these views out of a book like this in my opinion. There are approx. 7 billion people in the world and many people including myself have experienced spiritual encounters which blow this authors atheism apart. Nevertheless if you take the authors atheism as a poor mans intellectual only experience, his music teaching is brilliant.
TheBabooshka –
I first read this amazing book in 2014 and since then I still come back to it as a reference to improve my understand of music and songwriting! It's loaded with excellent examples using popular and successful songs to demonstrate how theory translates into emotional enjoyment of music and songwriting as both communication and an art. I feel that most beginners wanting to learn about chord progressions and how to write melodies should dedicate time to read this book before searching haphazardly o I first read this amazing book in 2014 and since then I still come back to it as a reference to improve my understand of music and songwriting! It's loaded with excellent examples using popular and successful songs to demonstrate how theory translates into emotional enjoyment of music and songwriting as both communication and an art. I feel that most beginners wanting to learn about chord progressions and how to write melodies should dedicate time to read this book before searching haphazardly on the internet or even Youtube. Youtube has been a great resource for me as a visual learner, but there still aren't videos that explain exactly how notes within a chord interact with neighboring notes and WHY they create certain effects. How Music Really Works is still the only book which explains that in accessible language how all that works. Once a musician or songwriter learns those fundamentals, all the doors open for them to make conscious creative decisions. The same goes for the lyric section of the book. I have yet to see other resources go into the psychology of how language affects lyric writing.
Kevin –
Best songwriting book I've ever seen, by far (and I've read a ton of them). It's really unfortunate that the publishing is so obscure/expensive. Best songwriting book I've ever seen, by far (and I've read a ton of them). It's really unfortunate that the publishing is so obscure/expensive.
roger clark –
an incredible wealth of information regarding music theory, composition, and songwriting. i can't believe this book isn't more well-known. an incredible wealth of information regarding music theory, composition, and songwriting. i can't believe this book isn't more well-known.
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