The Craft & Business of Songwriting

The essential guide for success in songwriting

In this comprehensively updated 3rd Edition, John Braheny teaches you the craft of songwriting and then goes behind the scenes of the music business to unearth insider secrets that will make your songs stand out. You'll find exercises and anecdotes to help you:

• Develop a "songwriter's consciousness" for picking out original ideas
• Collaborate effectively with co-writers
• Break into songwriting for film & TV, children's music, and commercials
• Use the internet to best advantage for pitching songs, networking, and publicity
• Understand the business of demos and song contracts

Braheny also brings you up to date with ongoing changes in online digital song distribution, podcasting, song-pitching services, home recording technology, production music libraries, and web hosting services. It's everything you need to know to make your mark on the world of music!

• Six Steps to Songwriting Success, Revised Edition: The Comprehensive Guide to Writing and Marketing Hit Songs
• Writing Better Lyrics
• The Sound of Light: A History of Gospel Music (History; 1)
• Songwriters On Songwriting: Revised And Expanded
• Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting
• Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting: 126 Proven Techniques for Writing Songs That Sell
• The Craft of Lyric Writing
• The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including The Poet's Craft Book
• The Addiction Formula: A Holistic Approach to Writing Captivating, Memorable Hit Songs. With 317 Proven Commercial Techniques & 331 Examples, incl ... "All Of Me" (Holistic Songwriting) (Volume 1)
• Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice