Songwriting Software Express

December 2008 - Special Holiday Issue Yes, Songwriting Software Express is back! From Songwriting Software Plus To help your songwriting with a focus on the benefits of innovative software, tools, resources and programs for your songwriting craft and career.

Enjoy easier, faster songwriting and make your songs more creative and impactful - lyrically and musically - with our best selling, easy-to-ride, workhorse program! Hop onto Lyricist - your lyric and chord processor that continues to make it easier for you to more readily write and be creative with your songs - now in version 3. Lyricist gives you an easy interface, supports rich text, has chord charting (guitar, piano or Nashville Numbers), key transposer, song arranger (just chords - no lyrics) - all at the click of your mouse. Also you'll enjoy a built in spell checker, thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, media file launch, plus organize songs into album categories, export to RTF (Rich-Text) files, and even email your songs in an instant. Lyricist is all the essential tools for writing and polishing your lyrics and creating chord lead sheets. Check it all out by clicking here - and fall in love with our special Lyricist savings! Mac users - run Lyricist and all Windows software with Parallels Desktop for Mac. Vista users - Lyricist now runs on Vista; click here for the Lyricist instructional pdf on Vista. Calling All Mac Users Run Windows software (including Vista) on your Mac with award winning Parallels Desktop for Mac - click here. Run both systems simultaneously with Parallels Desktop for Mac - no shutting down the Mac os to run Windows! PC World's Top "Best 100 Products of 2007" - and now with 50+ new features for 2008! Our Website Updates • Check out our Blog : Lyricist Now Works On Microsoft's Vista Operating System • Search Our Website: Search Songwriting Software Plus or the Web via Google

Hello First up: Editor's Note from the laptop of Robert Curtis, your songwriter in residence at Songwriting Software Plus. Followed by Items: 1. Want To Learn Guitar For 2009? How 'Bout Online? 2. This Month's Notable Quote 3. Songwriting Software Plus Software Superstars Editor's Note: Well after a much longer than expected delay the newsletter is back - after lots of technical difficulties that finally (I hope) have been worked out - however Yahoo continues to be the worst at reformatting newsletters - so if you're a yahoo user you'll see correct formatting here shortly after this mailing. Also, we've got a new coat as you may well have noticed if you've been a subscriber since before our crash in mid 2008. In any case thanks for your patience and I hope you like the new and improved format and I hope Songwriting Software Express is appearing properly in your email view box and continues to be of value to your songwriting endeavors. If you recently signed up - welcome to your first issue. There is a point of view that in an effort to optimize and grow your songwriting playing an instrument or even learning to play an instrument is one of if not the best ways to do that. This point is backed up by the book Your First Cut that points out that probably the most overriding commonality of most successful songwriters is that they play an instrument. I'm principally a keyboard player as it relates to my own writing and somewhat of a strummer on the guitar - an instrument I'd love to be better at eventually - and so speaking of better guitar playing and better songwriting - today's issue will spotlight a popular and valuable and practical way to learn electric or acoustic guitar - online. We'll cover keyboards in a later issue - so please don't feel left out. To find out more about starting or improving your own playing, or that of a friend perhaps, read on... And happy holidays :-)

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Want To Learn Guitar For 2009? How 'Bout Online? Learning via an online instructional methods is becoming more and more popular and offers many advantages. Specifically, as is the case with the program to be introduced today, you can learn anytime, at your own pace and repeat sections at will. Also in an optimally developed program you're not only afforded the ability of well presented written material but with today's graphic, audio and video capabilities you can get very good skills demonstrations too. Get More From Elmore The Elmore guitar music program developed by accomplished Australian guitarist and songwriter Chris Elmore is such a program and has been around and refined over the past several years to give an ultimate online learning experience. Elmore initially approaches playing from the chord and tablature based avenues that eliminates the need for being able to read music - although that can come in later or concurrently if you choose to further your music understanding in that regard. Remember - you can grasp music theory and full playing ability without ever needing to read music but it can't but help to know music notation and theory in its purest form as well - at least a little bit. In A Nutshell Chris has put together 5 brilliant sites that distill the insider tips and guitar techniques that only the professionals know...into easy step-by-step processes that make guitar mastery simple and achievable. They are full of professionally recorded video footage so you can see each of the finger placements, crystal clear sound so you hear precisely the pitch, tone and pace of each piece and accurate and easy to understand tabs so you know where to place your fingers for each chord. His first site (GuitarTips) takes you from the basic foundations of great guitar through to incredible strumming patterns and unreal harmonics. His latest site (SpeedLearning) helps you accelerate and master your playing from all the best tips and tricks in the business. Another of his sites (GuitarBackingTracks) gives you your own private studio of guitar backing tracks. His next site (GuitarLeads) helps you to hammer out awesome guitar solos and leads with confidence and skill. And another site he created (GuitarTheory) gives you a “Black belt” in Guitar theory to dramatically improve your musicianship. And last but hardly least Chris also created a songwriting site too (SongwritingSecrets) to help in writing your best songs on guitar no less. And with all these there are superb bonuses too. Chris excelled here with great chord software, scale generation software, advanced leads, free guitar effects software, and a lot more. Free Daily Email Lessons - See The Value Before You Buy If you want to check out Chris' approach and materials first hand before you decide to invest you can get daily lessons for free delivered to your inbox. Click here now to start accelerating your guitar playing. And if you do purchase any of his courses Chris personally backs his program with a 100% no strings attached, love it or get your money back guarantee. Click here to check it all out.

For Inspiration And Thought On Your Path To More Songwriting Success: "The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do,be the best at doing it." -- Debbi Fields

Songwriting Software Plus Software Superstars: Lyric Writing (Windows and Macs): Lyricist - the premiere indispensable and affordable lyric and lead sheet music writing program. Performing Songwriter Magazine said this about Lyricist - "...what it does, it does well." Click here for all the benefits Lyricist gives your songwriting and enjoy the Songwriting Software Plus discount - save $5.00. Or try it FREE for 30 days. CD or download. MasterWriter - the most comprehensive program for writing lyrics with a recorder for melodies and preprogrammed grooves. Used by hit songwriters Gwen Stefani, Rob Thomas, Jimmy Webb, Kenny Loggins, Trent Reznor, Clint Black, Jeffrey Steele, and many more. Windows and Mac compatible. Click here to read more about MasterWriter and save big with Songwriting Software Plus. Or try it FREE for 30 days. CD or download. Music Writing (Windows based): Play Music - the easiest, most bang for the buck, music notation program around. Our top selling notation program - click here to see why. Music Recording (Windows based) Mixcraft - easy, affordable, and quite capable, recording software. Now out in 2008 in version 4. See our November, 2007 blog entry about Acoustica's Mixcraft being compared to Garage Band by clicking here (and that was just for version 3!) NEW for Mac users - run Windows software (including Vista) on your Mac, simultaneously, with award winning Parallels Desktop for Mac - click here.

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