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Book Info/Back Cover

The book - Writing Great Song Lyrics is being published by Media 21 Publishing.

It is Allan's first book. The book is a concise and accessible journey through the techniques and "tricks of the trade" that Allan has developed during a very successful 30-year career as a songwriter in Australia. It also contains a number of Allan's lyrics, which are stripped down, to explain creating and using the hook, rhyme schemes, imagery and the thought processes that went into creating them.

As Allan explains "I had been running songwriting workshops for a number of years without being able to find a workable text book. I wrote Writing Great Song Lyrics to give me access to one … I can teach you things in 5 minutes that took me , or the people who showed me, 20 years of trial and error to learn".

Many of the songwriting techniques Allan uses in the book were developed as part of his work with The Australian Children's Music Foundation where he works with kids in juvenile detention and special schools as a means of focussing their creativity.

He later found that these techniques worked as an effective, all purpose approach for anyone who wanted to create original, well crafted songs.

To quote Brett Cottle, CEO of the Australasian Performing Rights Association:

"If experience is a good teacher Allan Caswell has a wealth of it to draw on. His book gives a solid understanding of the creative and practical processes of songwriting that should be a handy tool for any aspiring or active songwriter"

Author/s

Allan Caswell

About Author/s

Allan Caswell has been an important part of the Country Music Scene for over 25 years.

Since winning his first Golden Guitar in 1980, Allan has won 4 more, been nominated 27 times and has either produced or written tracks, which have helped several other artists, to win Golden Guitars. Although best known for writing the hugely successful theme from the TV series "Prisoner", Allan has had over 400 recordings of his songs released worldwide. This makes him one of Australia's most recorded songwriters

Pages

 

Book Released

January 2005

Cover Type

Soft Cover

Publishers

Media 21 Publishing

ISBN

1 876624-61-2