Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I started writing songs the summer I turned eleven. Like most beginning song- writers I knew little about music except for a handful of chords. My first at- tempt at songwriting was not a real song but a set of lyrics for an existing melody Paul Simon’s “The Sound of Silence.” Mine was called “The Look of Absence”-masking my influences was evidently not a major concern at that age. My first real song-words and music-lifted surreal lyrics from “Fixing A Hole” and other Beatles songs. For my third song I inadvertently ripped off the tune of the Monkees” “I’m A Believer” rendered unrecognizable to me by my melodramatic choice of an especially slow tempo. But this is precisely the way that all songwriters learn to write songs imitating and emulating that which inspires us until our own styles gradually emerge. Through the years I’ve hoped to find some formula some trick or method that would make songwriting simple. But there is none. Unlike magicians who create the illusion of magic writing a great song is genuine magic miraculous even to those making the miracles. (SP)