I just added a purchase page for my new book “Modern Songwriting Secrets”. I will be adding more details about the book soon but I put this up for the people who have been emailing me about getting the book asap.
http://www.AllenVanWert.com
Please let other musicians know about this book. Also please let me know how it works out in helping you with songwriting. Thank you for all the help and support!
Allen
Posted by ROBOT | Posted in Lessons, News, personal blog | Posted on 11-06-2009-05-2008
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My new book entitled “Modern Songwriting Secrets” Is complete and about to go on sale. It deals with becoming a better songwriter with real world examples and secrets about modern songwriting. This isn’t about classical music, 70s pop hits, or any pointless songwriting banter like most of the songwriting books out there. This is the real deal about modern music and how to craft hits. I slaved over it and made sure to include every singe tip and secret I could. There is a song analysis at the end of the book that is severely detailed and organized to help you out. The song is a current alternative metal song on national radio. It is from the band “Ra”. Sahaj Ticotin (Their lead singer) Gave me permission to use it for the book and I use it to prove how my examples and secrets are used in the current music on the radio.
If you want to get better at songwriting and have tried other books like me and just never gained anything of substance from them except for theory terms and coined phrases then this is the book for you!
I keep away from music theory as much as I can while providing a real world way to look at things and explain it all in a common sense and logical way. I provide the secrets and tools for you to get better immediately after reading it through. However, I feel that there are so many good tips and examples that most people will find themselves going back to it time and time again when they need a quick fix for a song they are working on. Or when they just need to sharpen their craft. It deals with all aspects of songwriting. There are no pointless examples and no old school mentality where you end up learning about how diana ross songs were written about love because love is a good topic. Nothing lame like that. It is the real deal!
So let me know if you are interested and I will hook you up!
Talk soon!
Allen
Posted by ROBOT | Posted in News, personal blog | Posted on 07-06-2009-05-2008
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There comes a time in every musicians life when they realize what they think people should have is not what people want. This is especially true for teachers in the music field. I have been giving free lessons on practicing guitar and music theory for quite some time on youtube. I have been flooded with questions nonstop about one certain topic. I have avoided this for a while because the topic would be time consuming and I felt that being a growing musician meant doing things for yourself.
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Posted by ROBOT | Posted in personal blog | Posted on 07-06-2009-05-2008
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I have been in a silent war about some recent “technology” with my girlfriend and most people I talk to. I do not understand why I need a twitter and why people spend so much time on there. I was sitting here thinking, maybe I am being a little strong headed and need to just give it a shot. So here I am with a twitter. Within thirty seconds I got a follower. I was thinking…wow, that was fast..were people searching all this time for me on there? Then I clicked to see who it was. It was some sort of spam-bot telling about some product. I hope people are happy with me finally getting a twiter. I have been posting “tweets” but they consist of bashing the pointless twitter.
If you would like to follow me on twitter to know about my super secret daily thoughts here it is…
https://twitter.com/allenrobot
Posted by ROBOT | Posted in personal blog | Posted on 05-06-2009-05-2008
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Hello, I am in the process of converting this shared office into a full on A/V recording studio. There is enough space for that type of thing once my girlfriend is placed downstairs in her own new little office. This way we both win. I will have a nice area to record in. I can finish my instructional. She will have her own space and not be forced to listen to the same 5 seconds of audio looping for hours and hours when I am mixing.
I just fixed her computer up with some new parts and I am ready to take the next serious step in the career path of a musician. I already have the text and most of the video finished for the instructional and just need to put it all together in various formats for publication.
Now the sad truth about being independent…
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