Songwriting Basics for Guitarists

Songwriting Basics for Guitarists has everything you need to get started writing your own songs or to take your songwriting craft to the next level—from “pre-writing” tips and tricks for generating ideas, to making the most of your guitar as a writing tool, to strategies for developing ideas for new songs by changing the chords, feel, tonality, and time signatures of existing songs. Learn about essential major- and minor-key progressions, as well as exercises, resources, charts, and advice from songwriting luminaries such as Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and others. Includes:

• Start Writing Songs

• Unlocking I-IV-V Chord Progressions

• Free Writing

• Writing Songs with Guitar

• 21 Songwriting Tips from the Masters

• Songwriting by Number: Major-key Progressions

• Songwriting by Number: Minor-key Progressions

• Blues/Rock Changes

• Simple Chord Substitutions

• Rewriting Other Songs

• How to Write a Bridge

Lessons are available individually as well as in a complete edition. Note that some lessons are guitar-specific presentations of material also covered in The Complete Singer-Songwriter, with the addition of notation/tab and video.