The Songwriter’s Workshop: Harmony (Book + CD)
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The Songwriter’s Workshop: Harmony (Book + CD) $18.64 Learn the fundamental techniques behind today’s hit songs, with easy-to-follow exercises so you can immediately apply these tools to your own songs. Quit wrestling with writer’s block, and learn to make the songwriting process easy, fun, and intuitive. Kachulis covers a variety of topics, including: colors of chords and keys • chord embellishments and progressions to enrich your palette of co… |
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September 29th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Accessible Intro To Harmony And Song Structure,
This book, along with its companion by the same author, Songwriter’s Workshop: Melody, comprise a solid, straightforward course in writing songs along the lines of what I’d (reluctantly) call “classic rock and pop” of the 60′s through the 80′s. The harmonic vocabulary covered in this volume is comparable to what most guitar-oriented songwriters
used then and continue to: open position chords with descending bass lines, major triads with thirds and fifths in the bass, etc. It may be a sign of the times at Berklee or, more
likely, just the author’s orientation but you won’t find jazz/show tune techniques here nor Steely Dan changes so if that’s more your cup of joe, I’d recommend Jack Perricone’s “Melody in Songwriting” which makes a great followup to this series.
But otherwise, there’s little prior knowledge assumed (other than an interest in and listening experience to a wide range of songs) and much to be learned.
Kachulis’s approach is to build up song structures by having you focus on individual elements: groove, chord color, modal chord progressions over small sections building to contrasts
over larger forms. Always refering to an example song or to the accompanying recording the approach is logical, and it should work for those requiring different levels of handholding and validation. You can imitate the examples closely or just
glean from the principles, going your own way.
And let’s face it: Many of the points about song structure are just as applicable whether your composing German Lieder, folk ballads, cabaret torch songs or a neo-prog synth-drenched epic.
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|September 29th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
There’s no direct link for the files inside the Kindle Edition,
The book is great, however there is an issue with the files ATM. There should be a link inside the book, so you could download the media content using a regular computer.
I could get access after exchanging some emails through berkleepress.com
I had initially given 1 star as I couldn’t find the link. After they sent me the link directly I upgraded it to 3 stars. (-2 stars for the hassle of having to go through several channels till I could get the files).
If they fix it.. then it should be a 5 stars as it’s a great content.
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|September 29th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
product review,
excellent purchase, combine it with melody workshop and you’ll have a great combination of exercises to develop your songwriting skills…cheers from Costa Rica…surf town
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