Author: Rikky Rooksby

Melody is the true heart of musicthe identity of a composition, the vessel that carries the lyrics, the tune that you keep whistling on your way ho...

ELyricsE sheds light on all aspects of lyric writing for music and will make songwriters feel more confident and creative when they tackle lyrics. ...

Fifty years since Bruce Springsteen's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. brought a new songwriting talent to the public, Bruce Springstee...

Originally published in 2003 and now revised and updated ÊThe Songwriting SourcebookÊ is the third entry in Rikky Rooksby's bestselling ÊHow to W...

There are many ways apart from the standard one to tune a guitar and each way opens up new possibilities for the player and songwriter. In this la...

This guidebook teaches songwriters exactly how to create awesome solos that will really help their material stand out. Based on the study of nearly...

Countless great songs are based on riffscatchy guitar phrases that repeat until theyre seared into your brain foreveror snappy chord sequences as m...

You want to write songs, and you want to write them on guitar. This updated twentieth-anniversary third edition of the bestselling songwriting hand...

Rikky Rooksby's revised and updated bestseller explores more than 200 classic riffs from Cream and Led Zeppelin through Nirvana and Soundgarden ...

ÊChord MasterÊ is a chord dictionary with a difference. Rather than just show chord shapes ä which are all there in the Chord Matrix ä a large port...