A really good songwriting book...

I got and read this a few years ago and thought it was really good. If you like songwriting you might like it too. It is titled Tunesmith. It was written by Jimmy Webb a great songwriter.
 
http://www.amazon.com/TuneSmith-Inside-Songwriting-Jimmy-Webb/dp/0786884886/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300145451&sr=1-1
 
When I was looking up the link to the book I saw this but I have not checked it out... might be a good resource: http://www.tunesmith.net/forums/
 
Julien
 

marcos69


Thanks for the info. I'm always looking for good books like this, even though most of them end up on the bookshelf unread.

Untunesmith is not as unfunny as unfunny.

So you're saying a rhyming dictionary isn't enough?  Wow have I been misled!

(BTW - What rhymes with "orange" anyway?)

You don't need a book, but for most people, a bit of help is appreciated and needed to get them pointed in the right direction.

The rhyming dictionary has got to be one of the hardest things to use..... I hate those things.

I use Masterwriter now. You type in the word you want a rhyme to and it comes up with all the possibilities including phrases and secondary rhymes and imperfect rhymes. Some words have very few rhymes and other have 18 pages to choose from. To me that is so much easier than thumbing through a book.

I use it to store my songs in a logical way.... you can import the finished audio and link it to the lyrics.

I also love the Songuard feature for proving date of creation. Many of the libraries don't want copyrighted songs... for reasons that make perfect sense. They copyright them for me after I sign the song to them.

I also use it to find the many rhyming words that are available when I am writing.

I love that program. I recommend it to all writers, and now they have reduced the price so it's a very good deal. At the time I bought it, I got a 1/3rd discount as a BMI member, everyone now gets that same rate.

Very good Julien. I think you'll like it.

Master Writer also does regular updates.... more phrases and words.....I used it yesterday to search a word for a rhyme..... there were 7 pages of rhymes, then I did a phrase search for that same word...... wow, there were 38 pages of phrases for that word.