Song Starters by Robin Frederick

Song Starters by Robin Frederick

With Song Starters, you'll spend more time creating and less time struggling to come up with ideas.

Discover an endless supply of exciting, creative concepts; each one will launch you on an inspired songwriting journey. Song Starters can: Spark a lyric theme or an entire song Jumpstart a memorable melody Get an irresistible groove going that will energize your next Dance hit.

All of the song starters are based on time-tested concepts used by hit songwriters. You'll make them your own as you let them unleash your songwriting potential.

You'll find 365 ways to fuel your songwriting creativity including:

- 183 lyric situations, characters, emotions, and title ideas

- 45 ways to easily create music tracks to write to

- 42 melody patterns, phrase ideas, and note rhythms

- 17 contemporary chord progressions

- 22 ways to rewrite a song using Song Starters and more

...plus you'll learn a proven four-step method for finishing every song you start.

It's more than song starters This songwriting gold mine includes chapters on beating the blank page, weaving your songwriting into your daily life so you write more, and a guide to using Reference Tracks-the songwriter's number one problem solver

Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting and Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV are two of Robin Frederick's best-selling songwriting books. Via her successful songwriting blogs and YouTube Songwriting 101 video series, she has shared her songwriting knowledge with millions of people all around the world. Robin has written and produced a large number of songs for television, recordings, theater, and audio products. She was the former Rhino Records Director of A&R and executive producer of over 60 albums. Robin has presented workshops at Musicians Institute, UCLA, USC, and other venues as a sought-after panelist and lecturer. She has helped scores of prominent music industry veterans impart their expertise of music and the music business to emerging songwriters and recording artists through mentoring.