Righting wrongs in writing songs - Cope, Danny (Course Technology, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-328) and index
We don't know what we're trying to achieve -- We don't know why we are writing -- We don't present our songs as effectively as possible -- We're not sure what our melody is all about -- Notes fall out of our heads without us thinking about them -- Rhythms fall out of our heads without us thinking about them -- We're not sure what we're trying to say -- We take too long to say too little -- We don't take meter and rhyme seriously enough -- We don't think about how to grow a lyric -- We don't think about how we grow our melodic ideas -- We write chords without understanding them -- We don't think about how we use chords