| 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”
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