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Index
Cover
Also by Jeff Tweedy
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I
1. Why?: Or Do You Need a Reason to Write a Song?
2. The Hardest Part: Getting Started
3. Obstacles: What’s Stopping You?
4. Make Songwriting a Habit: Be on the Side of Creation
5. Everyday Work: Regular Practice
6. What You Get in the End: Process Versus Goals
Part II
7. Start Writing: The Music of Words
8. Exercise 1: Word Ladder—Verbs and Nouns
9. Exercise 2: Stealing Words from a Book
10. Exercise 3: Cut-Up Techniques
11. Exercise 4: Word Ladder Variation—the Dreaded Adjective
12. Exercise 5: Have a Conversation
13. Exercise 6: Playing with Rhymes
14. Exercise 7: Don’t Be Yourself
Part III
15. Pieces of Music: Start to Make Things
16. Recommendation 1: Learn Other People’s Songs
17. Recommendation 2: Set a Timer
18. Recommendation 3: Loosen Your Judgment
19. Recommendation 4: Steal
Part IV
20. Can You Hear What Comes Next?
21. Recording What You’ve Done: Listening to Your Own Voice
22. Are You Stuck?: How to Get Past “Writer’s Block”
23. What Did You Just Make? Is It Any Good?: Does It Need to Be Good?
24. Sharing Your Song
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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