The Essential Secrets of Songriting

"The Essential Secrets of Songwriting", iPhone App, contains everything you need to know about how to put a song together. It describes eleven basic principles that are absolutely ESSENTIAL to writing good music. To put it simply: Your best intentions will not ensure that you write good music. If you aren't following the eleven basic principles of good songwriting in this book, your songs are going to have problems. They are principles derived from the hit songs of the past four decades. These eleven principles show you exactly how the world's most successful music works.

The Essential Secrets of Songwriting iPhone App, by Gary Ewer and Walking Library, is a complete product that shows you everything you need to know about how to write songs: how chord progressions work, how to write a good melody, what makes a good lyric, and more.

It analyzes the hit songs from the past four decades, showing you how the world's best songwriters have constructed their songs. It shows not just how melodies should be written, but how lyric needs to work together with melody.


INCLUDED IN THIS App are over 100 pages of:

• sound examples
• why song form is so important;
• how a great hook works;
• writing intros and outros;
• how to create chord progressions that work;
• how a bridge works, and how to write one;
• what to do about writer's block;
• the difference between copyright, performance rights, mechanical rights and royalties.
• a discography of songs that demonstrate all the concepts discussed within the book.
• a glossary of musical terms.
• and much more - EVERYTHING you need to know about songwriting!

Features Logbook

• Automatically create session plans for you. Don’t think about when to start. The app got it all figured out.
• Schedule sessions in a calendar. We have this slick calendar view, which makes it easy for you to remember when to start your next session.
• Rate and review sessions. After every practice you can rate the session and leave some personal notes, so you can remember later what was special about this particular session.
• Autologging sessions. Learn and train at your own pace. Just start a session by using the stop watch whenever you feel like it. The Session Logbook will automatically save your improvements and raise your status (we even have little achievments..)
• Statistics
• Achievments
• Multisessionplans
• Stopwatch and Logbook usable without App content

Curated by:

Gary Ewer

Charts:

• Top 100 USA
• Top 30 UK
• Top 30 Canada
• Top 30 Australia
• Top 10 Israel
• Top 15 Taiwan
• Top 20 New Zealand
• Top 20 Netherlands
• Top 50 Spain
• Top 50 Greece
• Top 50 Ireland
• Top 70 Argentina
• Top 100 Mexico
• Top 150 South Africa
• Top 150 Sweden