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Rooksby on lyric writing (1)

By alexander Posted on March 6, 2015 Posted in Lyric writing No Comments Tagged with song ideas

This article is a set of notes I made from the chapter ‘How to Write a Lyric’ in Rooksby, Rikky (2000/2009) How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-playing and Songwriting Course, Backbeat Books, pp. 117-136. It’s a great little chapter, packed full …

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