Song Starters: 365 Lyric, Melody, & Chord Ideas to Kickstart Your Songwriting - Paperback

by Robin Frederick (Author)

With Song Starters, you'll spend more time creating and less time struggling to come up with ideas.

Discover an endless supply of exciting, creative concepts; each one will launch you on an inspired songwriting journey. Song Starters can: Spark a lyric theme or an entire song Jumpstart a memorable melody Get an irresistible groove going that will energize your next Dance hit.

All of the song starters are based on time-tested concepts used by hit songwriters. You'll make them your own as you let them unleash your songwriting potential.

You'll find 365 ways to fuel your songwriting creativity including:

- 183 lyric situations, characters, emotions, and title ideas

- 45 ways to easily create music tracks to write to

- 42 melody patterns, phrase ideas, and note rhythms

- 17 contemporary chord progressions

- 22 ways to rewrite a song using Song Starters and more!

...plus you'll learn a proven four-step method for finishing every song you start.

It's more than song starters! This songwriting gold mine includes chapters on beating the blank page, weaving your songwriting into your daily life so you write more, and a guide to using Reference Tracks-the songwriter's number one problem solver!

Author Biography

Robin Frederick is the author of popular songwriting books Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting, Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV, Study the Hits, The 30-Minute Songwriter, and Song Starters.. She's a former Director of A&R for Rhino Records, executive producer of more than 60 albums, and an in-demand lecturer in the music industry. She has written and produced hundreds of songs for television, records, theater, and audio products. A former Vice President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Recording Academy (the Grammy organization) and former President of Los Angeles Women in Music, Robin is currently active in numerous music industry organizations.