Song Maps

A New System to Write Your Best Lyrics

By: Simon Hawkins

Narrated by: Sandra Hawkins

Whether you're just starting out as a songwriter, you're an experienced songwriter or just looking for a new perspective on the beautiful craft of songwriting, Song Maps - A New System to Write Your Best Lyrics offers fresh insights to help you write your very best lyrics.

Does any of the following sound familiar?

• You worry that the lyrics you write just don't deliver their full potential but can't figure out why, even though technically they tick all the right boxes.
• You have great ideas but your finished lyrics somehow fall short of the emotional impact you wanted and, as a result, your songs get passed over.
• You have a busy schedule with limited time to write and have wasted too many hours chasing un-writable lyric ideas.
• You wonder how some professional songwriters always seem to get a particular dynamic in their lyrics, consistently writing songs better than 90% of what you hear on the radio.
• You are perhaps nervous about going into a pro co-writing session because you fear your ideas aren't worth bringing into the writing room.
• You know you have so many great titles waiting to be written but haven't found a way of systematically developing them into well-crafted lyrics.
• After writing an amazing hooky Chorus and a great supporting first Verse, you hit the dreaded wall that is "second verse curse".

In Song Maps - A New System to Write Your Best Lyrics, I deliver simple, logical, well-defined solutions to these issues and more: I give you seven well-developed professional templates for you to bring your lyrics to life. I also provide you with a tried and tested process for writing lyrics using Song Maps. And I'll reveal the songwriter's secret weapon.

Please note: The audio references supplemental material that is not included with the purchase of this audiobook.

©2016 Simon Hawkins (P)2017 Simon Hawkins

The whole concept:)

I loved the whole thing. I loved the author, and the whole concept of the book.

Excellent.

I am very grateful for this book. I have listened through once and had many aha moments. I plan to get the workbook to really dig in and apply these suggestions. It is perfectly written to give you exactly what you need without any fluff. I know this will help transform my songwriting. The reader was great too.

Changed my songwriting process forever

Loved every part of this book. I managed to apply the lessons to my songs right away even before I finished the book. All of the sections in my songs now make sense especially the second verse.

This book doesn't work well in audiobook format

No music, just lyrics writing.
Boring narrationZZZ.
Requieres too much focus for an audiobook.
Narrator speaks perfect and polished british English, but her tone is slow and causes to fall asleep. Better for other type of narrations.
If the book is written by a male, I prefer a male voice narrating it. The opposite applies. Just my taste.
Too many Chistian music examples for my taste. and too many country examples... just my taste, but misses many great examples available in many other genres.

Last: tha father example with the two messy boys and dead wife, riding a train after leaving the hospital, IS NOT ORIGINAL! Heard it in other audiobook and read it in another book!

This book requires you to sit down and write while you listen to it. And that's not the purpose of an audiobook.
And the narration is so slow, polished, formal and emotionless, that requires a lot of focus to follow the book and extra focus not to fall asleep.
Avoid if you listen to it while driving.

Half an hour in and still pitching the book

I can't tell you if there's anything worth learning in this book. I gave up after half an hour of "this is what writing in 3-D will do for your songs". I already have the audiobook, I'd really love to have the information rather than a sales pitch for why I should buy the book.