Alfred Publishing

Your greatest desire is for your original songs to be recorded, released, and broadcast. But do you have a realistic plan to make this dream your reality? Author and hit tunesmith Rand Bishop draws from 40 years of on-the-job experience while visiting with some of the most-honored song crafters of the last five decades, unveiling a long-term strategy for building a career composing hit songs. The lessons, essays, quotations, and profiles in this book reveal how a Song Dog becomes Top Dog. Song List:About The AuthorAcknowledgmentsAfterwordChapter 1: Song CraftChapter 10: Call Yourself A SongwriterChapter 11: Attitude Adjustment (The Mental Tune-Up)Chapter 12: GratitudeChapter 13: How Cuts HappenChapter 14: What Is Networking?Chapter 15: Do As I Say, Not As I Did!Chapter 16: Peer NetworkingChapter 17: Creating Your Own Peer NetworkChapter 18: My Graduating ClassChapter 19: Industry NetworkingChapter 2: CoachingChapter 20: CowritingChapter 21: Writing For Yourself, As The ArtistChapter 22: Writing With The ArtistChapter 23: Profiles Of Songwriter/ProducersChapter 24: You As The ProducerChapter 25: Speaking StudioChapter 26: Producing Your Great Demo, Part IChapter 27: Producing Your Great Demo, Part IiChapter 28: Mixing And Mastering Your Great DemoChapter 29: Pitching Your Own SongsChapter 3: Profiles In MentorshipChapter 4: Some HistoryChapter 5: Copyright OwnershipChapter 6: How Do Copyrights Make Money?Chapter 7: More Ways That Songs Make MoneyChapter 8: What Should You Expect From A Publisher?Chapter 9: Why Write?IndexIntroductionPart Five: Strategic WritingPart Four: NetworkingPart One: Learning The CraftPart Seven: Final ThoughtsPart Six: The DemoPart Three: The Head SpacePart Two: The BusinessPreface: Are You A Song Dog?