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Page 1 How to Write Songs on Guitar Rikky Rooksby ...

Page 2 EPIGRAPH: "THE NEXT BIG THING IS A GOOD SONG."BRIAN EPSTEIN How to Write Songs on Guitar A guitar-playing and songwriting ...

Page 3 Foreword 4 Introduction 6 1 Songwriting Methods 10 2 Chord Dictionary Part 1 13 3 Chord Sequences 30 4 Developing Sequenc ...

Page 4 Foreword As I write these words in January 2000, a young man has just strode past in the rainy street outside. He was sin ...

Page 5 anyone fascinated by popular song and will enhance your listening pleasure through awareness of what goes on in a record. ...

Page 6 Introduction Like all great musicians, great songwriters are probably born, not made. No tutor, no book, no course, can m ...

Page 7 The better informed you are, the better able you are to make these choices. This means that instead of doing something to ...

Page 8 1950s. From an artistic point of view, there is no such thing as a right or wrong form. If all songs were written to comm ...

Page 9 misuse of technology. Note I do not say technology itself. Human beings are easy to tempt, and technology is a seductive ...

Page 10 Section 1— Songwriting Methods ABBREVIATIONSRoman numerals I VII indicate chordrelationships within a key. m maj minorma ...

Page 11 they're not finished. You need only one verse and a chorus to get the basic structure of a song – extra verses can be wr ...

Page 12 however, be free to treat the bass notes as the foundation of major or minor chords or their inversions, since a single ...

Page 13 singles, each one an unwritten classic. Choose one, visualizing the coloured bag and label. Take it out, put it on a tur ...

Page 14 What is a chord? Of these four, it is major and minor chords that concern the songwriter most. The major/minor fluctuati ...

Page 15 How Notes Are Duplicated in Guitar Chords A single chord like A major is capable of many different voicings. Contrasted ...

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Minor Chords Minor chords sound sad, unhappy or melancholic. A song written entirely in minor chords will accentuate this. A com ...

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Page 18 Dominant Seventh Chords A different type of chord can be created by adding another note to a triad. This note is often i ...