How do I know whether
'Successful Songwriting'
would be of benefit to me?

Once you complete this home study course book you would breeze through a questionnaire like this. Successful Songwriting is a comprehensive course in Songwriting that will have you confidently writing your own songs in days. Guaranteed!

...It's not a matter of memorizing every type of chord progression but understanding the patterns and being able to choose what chords or progressions could occur next...

    If you want to learn how to improve your songwriting skills, you can't afford to miss this valuable information!

 These secrets aren't over-complicated theories that take countless numbers of hours to learn ... they are simple, easy-to-understand principles that every musician should know and utilize!

If you're like most musicians you want to write songs that'll get people's attention. Write meaningful lyrics, catchy melodies supported by interesting harmonies.

When you begin studying Successful Songwriting course, you'll learn how to develop a good strong lyric with a winning story line. You'll also be given strategies for freeing up your creativity and getting started on writing lyrics.

When I first started writing I found it difficult. What will I write about? What's a catchy title that will get people's attention? The internal critic in me had started to make itself known. Successful Songwriting will show you how to unlock your right brain processes, unleashing your creative mind without the censorship that usually limits creativity.

Successful Songwriting will also teach you how to write interesting chord progressions. Maybe you haven't attended courses in music theory. You may be struggling to create interesting chord progressions. Have you found yourself playing chord progressions over and over again, looking for the elusive next chord? Have you tried to find it by randomly playing chords hoping to find the right one? It's a bit like trying to win a lottery.

Don't get me wrong many great songs have been written with the simplest of chord progressions. But, it's great to have the knowledge at your finger tips to make the right choices.

Successful Songwriting, will take you systematically through all the harmonic techniques you'll need to write good songs. We don't give you heaps of music theory, voice leading rules or music notation to learn. We show you in a straight forward and logical way. It's as easy as following a rhythm guitar part.

I've found musicians at all levels can easily relate to this method of teaching accompaniment writing. Increase the range of your harmonic pallet and the sky's the limit. You'll very soon be writing interesting and exciting progressions for your songs.

By subscribing to my newsletter you'll regularly receive analyses of successful pop songs. Before long you'll have a library of quality musical examples to study. In this way you'll be getting lessons from all the great songwriters, as well as receiving ongoing reinforcement of all the techniques you'll learn in the Successful Songwriting course.

Thanks, you will see by the course content's list below that it covers all the topics necessary for develop sound songwriting skills.

Glenn Ray

Title
Begin With a Title
Finding a Title
Recurring Title
Hook Title

Developing a story plan and how to turn it into a memorable song.

Planning Your Lyric
What to Write About
Story Plan

Developing Good Lyric Writing Techniques

The effects and characteristics of the syllabic structure of the lyric and that ties in with the rhyme scheme. The power of the rhyming scheme. How does the rhyme scheme effect the flow of a song.

Framework of a Song Lyric
Counting Syllables
Accent and Rhythm
Write Words You Can Sing
Writing a Complete Idea for Each Line
Logical Connection of Lines
Recurring Rhyme Patterns
Writing to the Title
Consolidating a Single Idea

Further Lyric Writing Techniques

The role of emotion in songwriting, how your choice of words affects the perception of your song. The skill of matching words to the music. The use of right brain techniques to free up your creativity and overcome writers block.

Specific Lyric Writing Techniques
Opening Lines
The Language of Songs - Songs or Poems?
Emotive Words and Phrases
Hyperbole
Imagery
Personalization
Key Words and Links
Appeal to the Senses
Alliteration
Suitability of Words and Music
What Comes First - Words or Music
A Practical Approach to Lyric Writing
Right Brain Techniques for Songwriting

Accompaniment Writing for Songs
- An Introduction

We begin by covering the chords in the major key and minor keys, how the chords are constructed, and the various strengths of a progression when moving from one chord to another within a key. You are also shown a simple process for understanding the strengths of chord progressions, so you will know what are strong progressions and what are weak progressions. Also how to transpose songs from one key to another.

Chords in C Major
Know your Chord Changes - Part 1
Know your Chord Changes - Part 2
Writing Accompaniments in Keys other than C Major
Transposition - Sing it in Another Key
Chords in the Minor Key

The various types of phrase endings. Some endings a more final and deliberate some are not. Know what these progressions are and how to use them effectively.

Phrase Endings for Songs
- in the Major Keys
- in the Minor Keys

The Dominant Seventh Chord

Using secondary seventh chords within the key to add more color to your chord progressions, creating more interest in your harmonic progressions.

Secondary Seventh Chords
- in the Major Key
- in the Minor Key

Starting progressions with chords other than the tonic, chords more removed from the key center. How to create and use harmonic riffs, a very popular technique used in popular song writing.

Songs Beginning on Chords other than the Tonic
Writing Harmonic Riffs
Writing a Complete Accompaniment

Varying Your Songs with Key Changes

Moving from one key to another can gives you the ability to change the range of your harmonic pallet considerably. This allows you to move from minor keys to less related major keys or vice versa. These techniques free up your harmonic range allowing you to support the emotional content of your lyrics more effectively.

Modulation - Extend the Scope of Your Accompaniments
Related Keys

Pivot Chord Modulation - How to Change Key Smoothly
- to Major Keys
- to Minor Keys
- to Remote Keys

Interaction of the Tonic Minor and Major Keys
Transition Modulation - Getting to Distant Keys Easily
Modulating Sequences - Reinforce Your Melody
Common Tone Key Changes - Give Your Song a Sudden Lift
Secondary Dominant Chords
Writing a Complete Accompaniment - Part 2

Innovative Harmony for Songs

This section of the course covers more colorful harmonic techniques. The way blues based chords, chords derived from the tonic blues scale can be included in your song's harmonies to add a bluesy flavor to your accompaniments. How to use chromatic passing chords to embellish progressions. Using the chords from the tonic minor in the major key to color progressions.

The Blues
Blues Based Chords
The Twelve Bar Blues
Chromatic Chords -Color Your Accompaniments
The Minor Chords vii and ii
Chromatic Passing Chords
Chords of Tonic Minor
The Major Chord bII
Song Accompaniments Using Major Chords
Harmonic Riffs Using Chromatic Chords
Writing a Complete Accompaniment -Part 3

We show you a systematic procedure using a checklist to analyze the structure of a songs melody. Systematic procedure for analyzing the elements of a songs melodic line. Identifying the chord tones, how dissonance has been used to carry the lyric.

Using a Check List
A typical Analysis

Marketing Your Songs

Only Your Best Songs Will Do
Where’s the Market?
Music Publishers
Record Companies
Recording Artists
Publications
Organizations
Other Outlets for Your Songs
Submitting Material for Review
Watch Out for ‘Sharks’
Some Final Words

Appendices

Structure of Scales
Intervals
Building Relative Minor Chords
Cycle of Fifths
Secondary Seventh Chords
Altered Chord Tones
Chords in Major Keys
Chords in Minor Keys
Guitar Chord Chart
Glossary of Music Industry Terms
List of Web Sites to Assist with Marketing Your Songs

"I have been writing my own songs for years, but I have never really been completely satisfied with them. I was frustrated when it came to writing chord progressions for my songs, they always seemed so similar. Studying your course significantly increased my harmonic knowledge. Now when I write songs I have people commenting on the chord progressions asking me where did I learned to do that?

Thank you for making this course book available"

Paul Bennett, 26 NSW

"I have to admit I was not sure your course would deliver what you were proposing. But I made the move and purchased it and haven't looked back. I have not had any formal musical training and I found the step by step way you present the material really easy to follow. I was writing lyrics I was really happy with in a matter of days.

Janet Cross, 32 VIC

Songwriting Secrets Revealed

We listen to songs on the radio or watch pop videos on television. When a song becomes popular and we take a liking to it, we relate to the story line, quote the hook and hum the catchy tune. The song has characteristics that we can identify, that give it a sense of being balanced and complete. What is it about a song that makes it memorable. However, these are simple techniques & principles that anyone can learn and use. They are not complicated and can be learned in a no time at all!

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"I have purchased some songwriting books before but I found the ongoing creative practice at the end of each section a great help. A lot of books explain the techniques but without ongoing exercises you don't know how well you are learning the material. I was able to measure my progress and know that I had absorbed what you had presented. Well done.

Peter Davidson, 21 SA

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