How to Write Songs on Keyboards A Complete Course to Help You Write Better Songs

by Rooksby, Rikky

• ISBN13: 9780879308629
• ISBN10: 0879308621
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Backbeat

Summary

"Whether or not you'd call yourself a keyboard player, How to Write Songs On Keyboards shows how you can use keyboards to expand your creative horizons. You don't even need to read music. Everything is laid out in easy-to-follow diagrams, and every music example and technique is available to listen to on the accompanying 90-track CD."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface	4	(2)
Introduction	6	(6)
A fistful of notes	12	(28)
Ten easy moves	40	(22)
Write a song with three chords	62	(12)
Write a song with four chords	74	(14)
Instant magic: four-chord turnarounds	88	(22)
Reaching for the five and six-chord song	110	(24)
Songs of rain: writing in a minor key	134	(20)
Get that emotion: the chord colourbox	154	(28)
More polish, more inspiration	182	(34)
Structure, melody, lyrics	216	(10)
Famous songwriters on songwriting	226	(8)
A gallery of keyboard songs and albums	234	(8)
Appendix	242	(8)
List of techniques	243	(2)
24 chord diagrams for complete majors and minors	245	(4)
Table of chord formulas	249	(1)
Glossary	250	(6)
Acknowledgements	256