The Absolute Essentials of Songwriting Success
Choir - Sheet Music

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SKU: AP.35888

Composed by Rand Bishop. Reference Textbooks; Textbook - Choral / Vocal. Book. 264 pages. Alfred Music #00-35888. Published by Alfred Music (AP.35888).

ISBN 9780739071915. UPC: 038081400860. English.

Your greatest desire is for your original songs to be recorded, released, and broadcast. But do you have a realistic plan to make this dream your reality? Author and hit tunesmith Rand Bishop draws from 40 years of on-the-job experience while visiting with some of the most-honored song crafters of the last five decades, unveiling a long-term strategy for building a career composing hit songs. The lessons, essays, quotations, and profiles in this book reveal how a Song Dog becomes Top Dog.

  • Preface: Are You a Song Dog?
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: LEARNING THE CRAFT
  • Chapter 1: Song Craft
  • Chapter 2: Coaching
  • Chapter 3: Profiles in Mentorship
  • PART TWO: THE BUSINESS
  • Chapter 4: Some History
  • Chapter 5: Copyright Ownership
  • Chapter 6: How Do Copyrights Make Money?
  • Chapter 7: More Ways That Songs Make Money
  • Chapter 8: What Should You Expect from a Publisher?
  • PART THREE: THE HEAD SPACE
  • Chapter 9: Why Write?
  • Chapter 10: Call Yourself a Songwriter
  • Chapter 11: Attitude Adjustment (The Mental Tune-Up)
  • Chapter 12: Gratitude
  • PART FOUR: NETWORKING
  • Chapter 13: How Cuts Happen
  • Chapter 14: What Is Networking?
  • Chapter 15: Do As I Say, Not As I Did!
  • Chapter 16: Peer Networking
  • Chapter 17: Creating Your Own Peer Network
  • Chapter 18: My Graduating Class
  • Chapter 19: Industry Networking
  • PART FIVE: STRATEGIC WRITING
  • Chapter 20: Cowriting
  • Chapter 21: Writing for Yourself, As the Artist
  • Chapter 22: Writing with the Artist
  • Chapter 23: Profiles of Songwriter/Producers
  • Chapter 24: You As the Producer
  • PART SIX: THE DEMO
  • Chapter 25: Speaking Studio
  • Chapter 26: Producing Your Great Demo, Part I
  • Chapter 27: Producing Your Great Demo, Part II
  • Chapter 28: Mixing and Mastering Your Great Demo
  • PART SEVEN: FINAL THOUGHTS
  • Chapter 29: Pitching Your Own Songs
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • About the Author