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When you say song writing are you including vocals in this?
I tried for years and sadly I don't.
Im just stuck creatively when it comes starting from scratch and falling into the trap of sounding like another song etc
Sorry just read your other post about not writing lyrics.
I was reading song writing as a whole structure of song not just the music.
My bad
There isn't really a magic book that will tell you how to do things exactly.
Just get started with a 4 chord pattern, manipulate the rhythm, try swapping major for minor chords. Make mistakes as it's the best way to learn things.
Try riffs, play them backwards, mess about and have fun. Something will come
Rikki Rooksby has several books on songwriting, some are guitar orientated. How to write songs on guitar and the song writing sourcebook, might be a place to start.
I find that to be the best songwriting tool hands down.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youShortly after I started to play I remember reading in a magazine (probably Guitarist as it was the only one at the time and I don't think they were importing the American ones at the time) that a good way to learn how to improvise was to play along to a recording of yourself playing chords.
I bought a system that included a four-track cassette recorder by Amstrad and almost immediately started writing songs. I listened to a lot of Stooges, Neil Young and Sex Pistols so everything sounded like third rate copies or a homage.
Most of my earlier stuff was garbage, but I was experimenting with progressions and structures from everything I listened too. In all honesty, learning how to arrange songs kind of spoiled my enjoyment of listening.
I got better at writing. Nothing terribly notable or groundbreaking I guess otherwise I'd like to think I may have been more successful.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Pat-Pattison/e/B001KMFZ02
Another good book is 'Tunesmith' by Jimmy Webb.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tunesmith-Inside-Songwriting-Jimmy-Webb/dp/0786884886/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=songwriting+webb&qid=1557124786&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr