How to Write a Hit Song: The Complete Guide to Writing and Marketing Chart-Topping Lyrics and Music

by Molly-Ann Leikin

Book Overview

How to Write a Hit Song is the only complete guide to composing lyrics and music - and getting your songs on the air. It covers everything aspiring songwriters must know to be successful, from creating memorable lyrics, composing the melody, and crafting song structure to collaborating, finding a publisher, and recording a song. This revised edition includes a new section on marketing your music on the Internet. "Interested in songwriting? Here is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 063402809X
• ISBN13: 9780634028090
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

How to write a hit song is short and to the point! Just get it!!!!!!

I bought this book in order to learn how to write lyrics and make great songs. Not only did this book help me accomplish my dreams but it took it another step further! The author is a RENOWNED hit songwriter, with an Emmy Nomination, gold records from Anne Murray and Placido Domingo and four ASCAP Country Music awards. She wrote the theme songs for 28 television shows!! Who better to learn from than a pro already in the industry with great successes. The book is organized very well by chapters as follows: 1. Song structure 2.The melody 3. Rhyming 4. The all important title 5.Collaborationg 6.Making time to write 7.Stimulating creativity 8.Overcoming writing Blocks 9.Publishing your songs 10.Making money in the meantime 11.Seasons 12.Music on the internet THis is the newest addition. It is the 4th edition and I especially like the chapters about marketing your songs. This was a great help, becuase most musicians do not have a clue what to do with their songs and who to send them to. Buy this book... it is a great resource for all singer songwriters!

Average

This is an "idiot's guide" to music producing and it takes you from the first baby steps up to the terrain of the big bucks. The book will show you everything that you need to know about promoting your music, abut writing it and about choosing the best artist to perform. This book will surely teach you to produce a No1 Hit that will get you famous in no time. With an easy structure and the step by step style it's easy to understand and follow, innovative and a pleasure to read.

How To Write A Hit Song is a fantastic book

It felt like Mollie was talking just to me. What a good coach. Improved my melodies immediately. Now we're talking. I listened to the whole course three times while stuck on the Long Island Expressway. Now I'm a staffwriter with several cuts. Still stuck on the Long Island Expressway, but at least now I'm paid to do what I love." I found this completely inspiring."

How To Write A Hit Song

I've been writing songs for twenty-two years with the usual confusion and heartbreak. But THIS book pulled it all together for me. I just got three big cuts and I owe it all to Molly Leiken's "How To Write A Hit Song." Bravo.

A fundamental necessity for any aspiring songwriter

Songwriting consultant and recipient of two gold records, one platinum record, and one double-platinum records, and composer/writer for 38 television themes and movie scores, Molly-Ann Leikin draws upon her considerable experience and expertise to show aspiring song writers how to not only create hit lyrics and compose successful melodies, but such essential songwriter tasks as crafting song structure, collaborating, securing a publisher, recording the song, and marketing music on the Internet. How To Write A Hit Song is a fundamental necessity for any aspiring songwriter, and an ideal introduction, instruction, and reference guide regardless of the category, genre or niche of their music.