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You Can Write Song Lyrics (You Can Write It!)

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You Can Write Song Lyrics is a good book for those looking to learn about songwriting. This book uses well know songs as examples which makes it easier to understand the lesson being taught. The author (Terri Cox) also gives very challenging exercises so you can use the skills you are learning.

You Can Write Song Lyrics covers rhyming schemes, and includes exercises how to rhyme past that basic one syllable connection. Although you may 'think' that rhyming is easy...wait until you try these exercises! They are tough and quite fun!

This book also talks about how to understand music jargon, how to work with others on songwriting, and how tempo affects your song.

I was disappointed to see that, You Can Write Song Lyrics offers very little information about how to market your song, once it has been written. Other than that one small dislike, this book was really good.

As an aspiring lyricist, I am greatly excited to finally(hence the catchy title) to have in hand a tool that is both usefull and inspiring. Ms. Cox's book is the best instructional text I have ever read, and , believe me, I've read them all. Terry has scored big as both a song writer/lyricist and teacher of lyric writing with this book. She introduces the craft of lyric writing in a way that offers true guidence in both the mechanics of the craft and the way of the heart. She integrates intuition and wordsmithing in a way that sent me scrambling for my pen and paper. Her book blew on the embers of my lyric heart in such a way that what once was but a flicker, is becoming now a flame. From chapter one she offers advice and guidence that awakens the heart and informs the mind. This book is sure to become a text for the inspiring lyricists out there , or anyone else for that matter who has ever longed to say something original, but needed more tools to do so. Terry, thank you for all of us still trying to find our way in this art.

Let's face it "You Can Write Song Lyrics (You Can)" is such a delightful read that it can put the real passion of music into any heart. I disagree with anyone who says that there are things in life that can't be taught for a few reasons= I was deafened at 19 and am now past 55. I was headed for a career as a pro musician in my late teens. Terry Cox renewed flames that were dying inside me as I "forgot" how melodies and lyrics of many favorite songs went together. Maddening. Along comes this book and bang! I go back and reread those lyrics over and over, and more often than not, I recall beautiful music behind the lyrics. Magical. To whom would I recommend this book? Anyone that truly loves music.

'You Can Write Song Lyrics' is a great book for anyone interested in stepping foot into the music biz as a lyric writer. Terry Cox reminds us of the importance of passion and self as a writer along with laying a strong foundation for formatting and putting our words into songs. This is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it to not only those interested in songwriting but also those who are already songwriters. Check it out!

I have been reading this book dayly, making the exercises Terry Cox proposes, and all of this have worked for me, both to understand and improve my songwriting.

Like my title says I've read many dare I say all the popular selling books on song writing, this one IMHO is by far the best. Why? Terry (Terah cox) not only gives you a very simple easy to digest outline of writing songs but she clearly goes much farther and morphs into a teacher of how to identify inspiration and meld it into pure energy. After reading this book I could write about a frog or all my thoughts on God and make it flow beautifully if I worked diligently. Writers (at least this one) think to themselves "what should I write about?" Much like a pop song which are not volumes of words, Terry cuts through any possible fluff that muddles up many books of this nature and gets down to the nitty gritty. It's weight is light and it's knowledge is plentiful filled with complicated subjects made very easy to grasp.

Although I'm just reviewing this book it's been part of my library for over a decade and have given several copy's away to anyone who's inquired about the subject. It had been a book I've read more then once over the years and every time I read it I feel like I have that same instructor student relationship that's pretty difficult to receive from a book. I owe a debt of Gratitude toward the Author.

There are some things in life that simply cannot be taught.