(Berklee Guide). Turbo-charge your songwriting process! These exercises and explorations will help you develop compelling ideas for song construction, and then manipulate and shape these ideas into emotionally captivating songs. You will find ways to troubleshoot your song's problem spots and learn to make lyric, harmonic, and melodic choices that bolster your own style. From innovative approaches for generating creative ideas to new ways of understanding and using advanced music theory concepts, this book will help you make your songs more expressive, meaningful, and personal. Whatever your musical style or experience level, this book will help you to write more, better songs. You will learn to: * Align your lyrics, harmony, and melody to support each other and maximize your song's emotional impact. * Eliminate writer's block, effortlessly find new ideas, and create even when you are not feeling inspired. * Structure your songs so that their story and meaning are riveting. * Utilize your own favorite songs as a launching pad for your own unique style and innovations.