My good friend Thom hipped me to the author from britain, Rikky Rooksby.
He said he wrote some neat books about guitar. So I checked one out from the library, "How to write songs on guitar". At first I was very skeptical. But in the introduction, Mr. Rooksby got right to the heart of the matter. The gist was, you can muddle through and write some good stuff - don't forget to do that, but if you have knowledge of whats happening in rock/pop music - you can create good stuff (with YOUR distinct spin) on it faster, and easier.
I was hooked. And now I own nearly his complete bibliography. and i'm scared to give him shout outs, cause if somebody knew how much of my new songs were handed, handed to me from the good prof. rooksby - well i'd be ashamed. But while rooksby is giving me the knowlege, i'm still putting stuff together and it still sounds like a "Dr. Confusion original". I've been given our bought these books:
I'm still on the fence about buying the Riff book, and the Arranging book. But If I get a fraction of the knowledge from those two as I have from the other books - that'll be money well spent.
I might break down each of these books and their strengths here. But for starters I wanted to give a hearty shout out to my new long-distance mentor. And thank him for the doors he's opened up for me in my songwriting.
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