Write Songs Right Now

De: Alex Forbes

Narrado por: Alex Forbes

Write Songs Right Now is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to creating original pop songs - an approach that been road-tested by thousands of Alex's students and coaching clients in New York City, some of whom have gone on to achieve great success. With insight, enthusiasm, and humor, Alex guides listeners through the process of brainstorming for ideas, crafting effective lyrics, and putting those lyrics to music. Whether you've written 1 song or 100, this audiobook will show you how to take your songwriting to new levels.

Each chapter lays out the basics of a different element of songwriting, including song form, lyrics, melodies, chord construction, song dynamics, and the essential ingredients of a killer hook. There are lots of fun exercises to strengthen your songwriting muscles and increase your confidence. Alex also encourages up-and-coming writers to participate in songwriting communities locally and online, and makes a strong case for collaborating as a way to generate even better material.

©2012 Alexandra Forbes (P)2012 AudioGO

Fantastic! Highly recommend this book!

Loved listening to this book! Really well organized and narrated, leaving feeling like I have a better foundation on all things songwriting. Good personality and humor throughout as well, keeps you engaged. Actionable exercises to advance your craft and career. Highly recommend this book!

Amazing read

Very helpful book for people who need a push into writing more. I learned a lot from it.

Excellent overview of songwriting....

...as a process and a business. I enjoyed it immensely and recommend this as a great initial overview!

A Gem

Any additional comments?

I enjoyed this book very much. Alex shares tons of interesting insights and narrates it pleasantly.

AMAZING!

Very educational, inspiring and very well structured. Rough at first but gets uniquely captivating. Loved it!

Kind of old wine in new skins, still good for that

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I used to fall asleep to this audiobook, since the narrator seems to simply read the text from sheets, repeating the same intonation over and over again (may be, but not necessarily, due to the nature of pop songs that repeat themselves over and over again?). While on some pages she seemed to be alone at home, calling out her words to the mike, in other times she seemed to have to keep quiet to not wake up the kids.
Well, I found out the Audible player could speed up playback. 1.25 speed made listening not so dry.
As for content: There's nothing new in here, everyone who ever read or heard about creative writing or anything the like knows all there is in this book (and considerably more, I bet). Also, the perspective is rather limited to mainstream music, mainstream business, mainstream genres, mainstream production and mainstream "how to". Legal advice is applicable to US listeners only, although, with a bit of brain, you can "translate" what little help on rights & cie is there (although it wouldn't help you much if you were, like me, German and had to suffer from the absurd German creative rights system. Ask YouTube about that).
Ok, too many words from me already: The book is ok for the money spent (much less than for a cheap lunch), but I won't listen to it again.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

That's it? Erm, ok.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

The book could benefit (a bit) from a professional narrator, who could bring live, color and dramatic to the content.

Was Write Songs Right Now worth the listening time?

If you didn't know that in order to write songs now you have to write songs now, you really should read this book (listen to it), because it basically tells you that in order to write songs now you should write songs now. And not listen to books that tell you to write songs now.

Any additional comments?

Sorry for being lame, I guess there are people out there who need the "kick in the butt" the author tries to give the reader/listener (but somewhat fails). I just expected a little more insight into how professionals run their job - I happen to know a few professional song writers who see their job as a 9-5 daytime business with routine, know how and creativity. 30 minutes of chatting with them gives me more than a couple of hours of "Write Songs Right Now".

Great book for beginner

It helps you along the way The challenges and commitment that you have to take to order to write great songs highly recommended for beginners or relearn something in the book. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

A Must Read

This book taught me so much about the process of writing songs and honing my craft. This book is for anyone who may be starting out like me or who just needs a refresher. I am going to listen to it again to listen for things I may have missed.

Very informative!

It answered all my questions and then some.
The narrator was a pleasure to listen to.
I'm a hard person to keep focused and this book held my undivided attention.