SKU: GI.G-9234
Unlocking the Great
Songs Inside You.
Composed by Mark Caro and
Steve Dawson. Music
Education. 192 pages. GIA
Publications #9234.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-9234).
ISBN 9781622772117.
English.
I don’t
claim to know how to
teach anybody anything,
let alone something so
individual and subjective
as writing songs. The
truth is, dear readers,
you already know how to
write songs. You’ve
been, in a sense,
studying them your whole
life. My goal as a
teacher, and the goal of
this book, is
‘unlocking the great
songs inside you.’
They’re in there. I
have witnessed the births
of hundreds of songs in
class, some so beautiful
that the class is wiping
back tears by the end.
These songs were written
by people exactly like
you: lovers of music,
strummers of guitars,
banjos, mandolins, people
who’ve dreamed of
writing songs like the
ones they love. So,
welcome and good luck.
— Steve Dawson, from
the Introduction
T_x001F_ake It to the
Bridge combines a_x001E_
lively, instructive
dia_x001E_logue, helpful
chord, key _x001E_and
song-form cha_x001E_rts,
_x001E_and
crea_x001E_tive
songwriting assignments
designed to inspire
_x001E_anyone who ever
h_x001E_as thought of
_x001E_adding songs to
the world. Steve Dawson
is a
singer/songwriter/musicia
n who leads the rock/folk
band Dolly Varden and has
taught songwriting and
guitar at Chicago’s Old
Town School of Folk Music
for more than a decade.
Mark Caro is author of
the award-winning
non_x001D_iction book The
Foie Gras Wars and has
written about music,
f_x001D_ilm, food and
culture for the Chicago
Tribune, The New York
Times, and other
publications.
http://www.tothebridgeson
gwriting.com/.
From The Inside Out for Banjo
