Creating Melodies: A Songwriter's Guide to Understanding, Writing, and Polishing Melodies

by Dick Weissman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898796024
• ISBN13: 9780898796025
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Quick and to-the-point for beginners

I am surprised to see this book getting only one star by a couple of reviewers - they must have been disappointed that the book is very simplistic and meant to be a to-the-point, easy-to-follow beginner's book. I thought the book was great. It quickly explained to me how music is made up of notes from chosen chord progressions and scales. I love the book because it is short and written in boldy formatted paragraphs with diagrams of piano keys and guitar frets. It's a small, slim hardcover book so it's great to take along and read over coffee. It is a very basic book but it does what few writers are able to do: say exactly what needs to be said in as short a time space as possible! I think the author did a great job. I am now searching for my second music theory book, to keep learning about how music is actually created.