Notebooks - Journals - Logs - Lists-Become a more productive songwriter! Learn to organize the full range of your creative content from starting inspirations to finished songs. This book offers pragmatic tools resources practices and principles for managing the many kinds of creative materials gathered or generated across a song's life cycle. Organize your ideas and sources of inspiration sketches and drafts versions and revisions to streamline your songwriting process. Create and use ?song seed? notebooks and lists song journals and writing and co-writing session logs as you develop your overall song catalog.You will learn to:? Capture and access inspirations ofall types ? lyric melodic chordal rhythmic or concept ? in songwriting notebooks journals and lists? Energize and improve your creative work writing by organizing all your song ideas for easy access at every stage of songwriting? Manage the full lifecycle of your songs from sketches and drafts through versions and revisions to ?fair copies? and demos? Develop an efficient songwriting workflow that connects inspirations to opportunities and projects? Rapidly access your strongest creative material in high-stakes deadline-driven writing and co-writing sessions? Develop your song catalogue to support publishing administration and licensing? Use the organizing process to gain insights for advancing your craft and range as a writer

In this groundbreaking book prize-winning Pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience psychological insight and wisdom ancient and modern Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. For example playing a wrong note can be constructive useful even enlightening. The creator of the acclaimed Un-Master Class workshop also explores the special potential of group work outlining the basics of his revelatory workshop that hastransformed the music experience for participants the world over. Practicing in Westney's view is a lively honest adventurous and spiritually rewarding enterprise and it can (and should) meet with daily success which empowers us to grow even more. Teachers professionals and students of any instrument will feel the benefit from this unique guide which brings artistic vitality freedom and confidence within everyone's reach.