How to Write Songs on Guitar

Rikky Rooksby helps you transform your guitar-playing skills into creative songwriting techniques. Rikky's straightforward style will have you writing songs on your guitar with ease even if you never have before. Using well-known songs as examples, with lots of easy-to-read graphics, he explains and demonstrates how lyrics, melody, harmony, and rhythm work in a song.

The book also analyzes classic and unusual song structures and their elements from intros to bridges to codas and discusses the benefits and problems of writing songs on different kinds of guitars.

Learn How To:
write words to melodies and vice versa
understand, develop, and embellish a melody how chords create harmony
how tempos and time signatures differ