Writing Music For Hit Songs (Omnibus Press) Review

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(More customer reviews)I've paged through many books about songwriting trying to find a way to understand how to construct music to complement my lyrics.This book finally solved my problem and has absolutely revolutionized my songwriting.I wouldn't recommend this book for someone who is a complete novice inmusic theory because it moves very quickly through a great number oftopics.I took notes to make sure I got everything I could out of it! Ihaven't looked at another music theory book since.If you're serious aboutwriting better music, buy this book!

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This book is for everyone who dreams of placing a song on the Top-40 charts. From the musical basics through the completed song, Josefs reveals the hit-making mixture for rock, country, R&B, and theatrical forms. Illustrated with over 100 real-world examples.

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Randy Newman Anthology, Vol. 2 (Music for Film, Television and Theater) Review

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(More customer reviews)This second volume of Randy Newman sheet music is of the same high quality that Volume One was. The transcriptions are accurate and each song is detailed in the key it was recorded in. There are some excellent selections in this book, including 'Laugh and Be Happy', 'My Life is Good', 'Make Up Your Mind', 'The Ballad of the Three Amigos' and the two instrumental tracks from 'Avalon' and 'Awakenings'.

Perhaps the only 'problem', if you can call it that, is that the selections are mainly from particular movie soundtracks. I am a huge fan of Randy's songwriting and have all of his albums (including the box-set 'Guilty', which does have some of the film scores reproduced on Volume 2); however, I have not tracked down the soundtracks from 'Monsters Inc', 'Toy Story' and 'James and Giant Peach', for example. Further, the theatre piece 'The Education of Randy Newman' is, to the best of my knowledge, not available for public release. There is a song in the Volume 2 anthology called 'Stupid Little Songs' which is from that theatrical piece; however, given its unavailability, we really have no idea (apart from the how the music reads on the page) how Randy sings it or how it should go. Therefore, half of the music in this book is kind of inaccessible, in a sense of the word. You will need to be diligent to hunt down the other tracks that are not as easily accessible should you wish to play the music in Volume 2 as confidently and assuredly as you would with the music in Volume 1.

Nevertheless, it's Randy, and he writes well. I love his music and any addition to his sheet music ouevre is welcomed with open arms.

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Level 3-4.Arranged for Piano/Guitar With Lyrics by Michael Roth.31 selections featuring Randy Newman's award winning compositions and songs from film, television, and theater. This collection includes songs and several suites--piano adaptations of Newman's instrumental film music that shows a different side than his songs. These arrangements were assembled using the composers own notes and orchestrations, transcribing performances from various recordings, concerts and takedowns.
Each piece contains historical and contextual comments from Randy Newman.

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