The Addiction Formula: A Holistic Approach to Writing Captivating, Memorable Hit Songs. With 317 Proven Commercial Techniques & 331 Examples, incl … "Happy" & "All Of Me"
Author(s): Friedemann Findeisen (Author)
- Publisher: Albino Publishing
- Publication Date: October 25, 2015
- Language: English
- Print length: 228 pages
- ISBN-10: 9082391309
- ISBN-13: 9789082391305
Book Description
Discover The Songwriting Technique Used In 97% Of All Hit Songs How To Use Subtle Psychological Triggers To Captivate ANY Audience. Writing Pop, Rock, RnB or Hip Hop has never been easier or more fun. Master The Art Of Writing Addicting Songs Music is a tough industry to break into. With production gear being affordable for the first time in history, it seems like EVERYONE is making music these days. Getting noticed in the continuous stream of information that is the internet seems almost impossible. BUT: There is a technique designed specifically to captivate and hook an audience and with The Addiction Formula, you can learn it in a couple of hours. You will learn all about Lyric-Less Storytelling, a technique used by the most successful songwriters of our time. If you’ve always wanted to know how to write songs that stick out and speak to a large audience, this is the book for you. The Songwriting Book For A New Generation Of Songwriters The 60s are OVER! Songwriting today is a very different experience than it was when the Beatles were on the air. By combining Arrangement, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, Lyrics and Production in one deviously simple technique it is the first songwriting book that speaks to an all-writing, all-producing DIY generation. Includes over 317 Techniques You Will Be Able To Use INSTANTLY Part 2 of The Addiction Formula is almost like a dictionary of hit songwriting techniques. All the tools are hand-picked from hit songs of the past 30 years. But this book is far more than just a list of tips and tricks: The Addiction Formula also shows you how the techniques can be applied to your songs. It puts all of what you learn into perspective and shows you how they all fit together. With 331 Examples Incl. Songs By Rihanna, Katy Perry, Drake and Maroon 5 Are you sick and tired of being taught techniques based on some old County song you’ve never heard of? One of my guidelines for writing this book was to only include hit songs from the past 30 years. Every single technique in The Addiction Formula is proven with one or more examples to show it in action and to help you learn it quickly and easy. I mean, hey, you get to learn by listening to the songs you listen to anyways! It’s fun, quick and practical. Scroll up and get your copy NOW!
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The fun really only begins once you know the rules and this book lays them out in the clearest way possible”
– Benjamin Samama (Topline Writer, Berklee Teacher)
“Today’s biggest bands and artists all have something in common and Friedemann unravels this secret in his own fascinating way. He combines storytelling in movies with lyric writing and song build. The analysing goes deep and the tools are useful and inspiring. Highly recommended”
– Erwin Steijlen (Pink, Shakira)
“Forget yesterday’s songwriting and all idols you’re trying to imitate. This book describes a new, up & coming, not yet conceivable, maybe not even born generation of songwriters”
– Marc David (Artist)
“This book reveals the secrets to hit songwriting in a logical and unique way. While most books give you rules that can always be broken, this book goes for the root of the problem and shows you how to write songs on the highest level. This is the new way of encoding hit songwriting”– Jobassa (Performing Artist)
“Fresh and easy-to-read. Mr. Findeisen makes his case not by rehashing (often) “dry” theory, but by providing clear visual and linguistic examples that speak most effectively to 21st Century songwriters (along with plenty of references to recent hit songs)”
– Tom Salisbury (Grammy-Award Winning Arranger)
From the Author
For more on songwriting, check out facebook.com/holisticsongwriting
From the Inside Flap
Story Is Dead, Long Live Story
As far as I’m concerned, storytelling in music is about over. Yes, it still pops up every now and then in some country songs or your latest folk hit, but overall, songwriters are moving away from telling fully fleshed-out stories through their songs.
This in turn means one very important aspect of songwriting just falls by the wayside: dramaturgy. What storytelling did for centuries (going all the way back to bards) is provide a reason for listening to the whole song: If you wanna know what happens to Georgie, you have to keep listening. Every songwriter knows: Give the audience a good story and they’ll stick around.
Now look at the following songs:
- Sam Smith – Stay With Me,
- Katy Perry – I Kissed A Girl,
- Rihanna – Umbrella,
- Jennifer Lopez – Booty,
- Beyoncé Knowles – Drunk In Love (feat. Jay-Z)
Are these songs big storytellers? Do you stick around because you wanna know more about J-Lo’s butt (ok, bad example)? Does your life depend on finding out what Katy Perry has to say in verse 2? No. These songs – as 95% of all the songs on the radio today – describe moments, emotions, things. Story is dead. Or is it?
With this book I present to you an approach to songwriting that is all about telling a captivating story – without actually telling a story. In fact, each song named above does tell a story the addictive way and could have been written using the approach.
I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel here. Our goal is to write compelling, commercial tracks that fit into the radio format. But as you’ll see, the Addiction Formula can help you get there much, much faster and with laser precision – over and over again. And best of all: It’s so deviously simple you can learn it in 4 hours.
From the Back Cover
The Complete Guide To Writing Addicting Songs
“What if you could use the same psychological principles that have made people grow addicted to
Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or Lost to instantly hook your listeners?”
A New Set Of Tools For The Modern Songwriter, Incl.
- Lyric-Less Storytelling
- Hype
- Tension
- Implied Tension
Includes Songs By…
- Beyoncé
- Drake
- Rihanna
- Pharrell
- Justin Timberlake
- Sia
- Taylor Swift
- and many more...
About the Author
After spending some time at International Music College Freiburg, Friedemann realized that he had made a mistake studying jazz guitar. For two years he had spent every day trying to improve his playing technique – with no success. Rehearsing scales was not his thing. Instead, under the radar of his teachers, Friedemann wrote songs.
When he barely made his final guitar exam and his composition teacher (and creative director of the school) Bernhard G. Hoffmann heard his songs and told him “There is nothing more I can teach you”, Friedemann quit the program and moved to the Netherlands. Here, he studied MediaMusic and his songwriting exploded.
In the following four years, Friedemann played in front of over a 100,000 people with his band, conducted his music in front of a live orchestra, was featured on prime time television, won two composition awards, had his music going to Cannes Film Festival and worked for some of the biggest names in the industry. He has received recommendations from songwriters Erwin Steijlen (Pink, Shakira) and René Merkelbach (Within Temptation), orchestrator Conrad Pope (The Hobbit, Harry Potter) and composer Jeff Rona (Traffic, God Of War III).
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