101 Songwriting Wrongs and How to Right Them
101 Songwriting Wrongs and How to Right Them: How to Craft and Sell Your Songs
by Pat and Pete Luboff
ISBN: 1-58297-480-2
$19.99, 160-192p
With this book’s guidance, songwriters will begin writing songs strong in emotion, clear in idea, musically beautiful, and supremely salable. Great songs are a highly disciplined art form; they are 100 percent creativity yet 100 percent structured. This book teaches why readers mustn’t second-guess song ideas before they can evolve; why their intention in writing a song must be clear; how to put words together in easy-to-sing lines; how to marry lyrics to muse; and how to write a strong melodic “hook.”
An update of 88 Songwriting Wrongs and How to Right Them, this new edition includes:
- 101 wrongs rather than 88
- A new section on the Internet (online demo don’ts, song sharks, fake contests, and so on)
- Updated song examples throughout
- Updated song structures
- Updated technology references
About the Authors
Pat and Pete Luboff have recordings by Snoop Dogg (“Trust Me,” the first single from the platinum-selling album “Top Dogg”) Patti LaBelle (gold album and the title song for “Body Language: the Musical”), Bobby Womack (No. 2 on Billboard’s Black Music chart), “Hometown, USA” from the John Travolta movie Experts, Michael Peterson, Miko Marks and more. The Luboffs have been teaching songwriting since 1979 and have conducted workshops from coast to coast. They lead The Sounding Board songwriting think tank in Nashville every Monday night. For more information, visit http://www.writesongs.com.