I ordered this book, standard shipping, got it next day...go figure! Started going through the book - extremely well organized and fun to read! I look forward to picking it up each time, and I keep it next to me in my home studio - such a great songwriter's reference. The http://www.robinfrederick.com website rocks too! Thanks Michael Laskow and Robin Frederick for partnering up and giving us a great resource.

Jeff Lizerbram
San Diego, CA

Dont mind him Jeff.

He's got cabin fever. But hes a really good guy.

M~

Dec 30, 2008, 12:17pm, horacejesse wrote:

Shortcuts to hit songwriting? Is that where you hire someone else to write it?

Where you hire someone else to write, someone else to sing, someone else to produce, someone else to play, someone else to record, someone else to master, someone else to manage, someone else to publish, someone else to distribute, someone else to advertise, someone else to write a business plan,

and someone else to collect...

Really, it's shorter, and you make way more money. Really!

Nice to see your name again Horace. Missing ya!

Thanks! I just tried it again and it worked fine...

Jan 1, 2009, 12:36pm, cameron wrote:

Has Robin ever written a hit? Seems like if you're going to write a book about how to do it that would be a prerequisite.

Maybe... has Tiger Woods' golf coach ever won a major (or even a single PGA golf tournament)? He's written LOTS of books (in addition to coaching Tiger). Plus, Jason Blue and Kara DioGuardi certainly wouldn't endorse a publication that had no substance.

Just my two cents to add to the discussion here . . . I got the book and am through the first few chapters. Very good, clear info so far -- a bit more user friendly than some books out there.

I think the "jump in and do exercises to help you understand how songs work" approach will especially be useful to new composers; so I will most likely recommend it to some of my composing students.

,
Suz

Jan 1, 2009, 6:30pm, taxirobin wrote:

For those of you who don't have the book, I'd like you to have more than the title by which to judge it. I've posted excerpts from three shortcuts on my web site at http://www.robinfrederick.com/excerpts.html.

The period at end the sentence ended up getting captured by the URL thingy (highly technical jargon... don't you kids try this at home), which makes the linky no worky.

Here's a worky linky...

www.robinfrederick.com/excerpts.html

I love this joint.

Yeah, there really are no shortcuts, it jes' makes a good title.

Jan 1, 2009, 6:30pm, taxirobin wrote:

I tried to keep the book as hands-on and user-friendly as possible.

That's a huge understatement! The book is so friendly you can feel the life jumping off the page. You'd have to be really bull-headed to resist the urge to write a song after holding this book in your hands for only a few minutes.

Congrats Robin! I'm a fan!
Allen