Writing Songs with the Ukulele
You don’t need to know how to read or write music to write your own song.
Write a Song Now! shows you how to use simple techniques along with your ukulele to write original songs. This unique approach includes links to over forty sound files with eleven complete original songs highlighting popular song styles as divers as pop, country, blues, do wop, and rap.
This book is for the average Joe (or Melissa or Brad) who picks up a ukulele, learns a few chords, and wonders if they can write a song with the few chords they have learned. The tools here will give anyone enough knowledge to writer their firs song regardless of their playing ability.
“Write a Song Now!” shows you how to expand your world of songwriting, using multiple techniques including mind maps, character sketches, world building, and support groups.
“Write a Song Now!” gives you a simple step by step method to:
Write a melody that fits your chords and lyrics
Write lyrics that rhyme
Write lyrics for your introduction, verses, chorus, and break
Learn how to about:
Song tempos, rhythms, and Rhyming Patterns
Common chord progressions
Most commonly used chords in songs
Which chords “go” with each other
Write a Song Now! With Your Ukulele will show several easy to follow techniques to use to write simple lyrics and use easy chords to create your own unique melody.
Write a Song Now! With Your Ukulele includes over forty sound files illustrating the techniques and examples in the book, including eleven complete, original songs by the author where you can see the concepts and techniques put to use.
You can write a song with your ukulele.You don't think so?
Well, I say you can!
If the ukulele is your instrument and writing songs is your dream, “Write a Song Now! With Your Ukulele” will show you the path to writing your first song, and your next one, and your next one, and your next one....
“Write a Song Now!” includes links to over forty ukulele sound files, illustrating each of the main ideas presented to the new songwriter and, as a bonus, eleven complete original ukulele songs in styles ranging from ballad to rap.