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# Song Maps: A New System to Write Your Best Lyrics

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A COMPLETELY NEW PERSPECTIVE ON SONGWRITING
*by A***U on May 15, 2016*

Song maps has given me a completely new perspective on the art of songwriting. Like many other aspects of the music industry, they are probably hundreds the books written about songwriting, but none using the technique of song maps. This is a tried and tested technique developed by the author himself who has had a very successful career in the songwriting capital of the world, Nashville.The author recounts how he would typically be hired to write in collaboration with at least one or two other writers in a 3 hour songwriting session and a lot of the examples and revelations that he gives have come from those experiences.In this book, Hawkins describes seven song maps (or blueprints if you like) that can be used when developing and writing a song, particularly if you regularly collaborate with others.The great thing about this book is that the author takes each song map and provides a huge array of song examples from multiple genres, each of which he dissects to explain the relevant song maps in greater detail.At the end of every song map, the author provides exercises that the reader can undertake to solidify their understanding of the song map in question.The author concludes by encouraging the reader to embark on further study of song maps and reveals even more songs maps that were not covered in detail in the book.Even though the author writes from the perspective of collaborating with others, the idea is to help the reader formulate strong song ideas that can be developed into songs of substance. Songs that will move people and be remembered for all the right reasons.Song mapping is a technique that can be used in collaborative songwriting as well as solo songwriting.As someone who enjoys writing songs, I am looking forward to exploring song mapping in greater detail and experimenting with it in my own writing.If you are a songwriter already, or if you are you looking to start songwriting, this book is a resource that you will come back to again and again as you seek to develop your craft.An easy, insightful and informative read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome To-the-Point Guide for Writing Powerful Lyrics
*by M***K on April 30, 2017*

This book was perfect for me as an aspiring musician. I've had dozens of random song ideas and song titles over the years but no thoughtful nor efficient approach to go about formalizing these ideas into a song. I've just been stream-of-consciousness dumping lyrical lines or thoughts in OneNote, or as voice recordings. If you are seeking a more concise approach to writing and structuring lyrics, I highly, highly recommend this book.Simon has created a fantastic framework that helps you take an idea you have for a song title and evolve it into a structured song with lyrics. Lyric writing can otherwise be a "Wild West" creative process with no boundaries or laws. The system isn't meant to be constricting, it's just a fantastic starting point, as he does encourage you to create variations or experiments outside of the prescribed system once you feel ready.I especially love that (A) the book is not super long and overly verbose; it's powerful and pithy and (B) he uses specific examples from several different genres and time periods. including hits from the days of Ella Fitzgerald to more recent hits—at the time of writing this review—like Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off", Kelsea Ballerini's "Peter Pan", or Lukas Graham's "7 Years". He analyzes the structure of these songs without getting too "in the weeds." Short and sweet.He notes that not all genres have a strong emphasis on being lyric-driven. As aspiring musicians, we have an opportunity to carve out how music will sound in the future, and if a genre today can become more lyric-driven. Personally, I love the sounds of EDM but—with few exceptions —the genre is mostly devoid of original, thought-provoking, moving lyrics. This book will help me explore this route.Thank you Simon for creating this book. I am grateful for it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for intermediate/Beginners
*by A***N on January 11, 2020*

Informative I found that this book takes a naturally intuitive approach to song writing that we all may been using without knowing. That being said I found it to be a refreshing new way to look at song writing. Formulas and recipes take out the guess work. If thats what your looking for this is a good read.

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