This book is the companion practicum volume to Lyrics First: How to Write Effective Song Lyrics (ISBN 9780645371239). Due to length I decided to split that initial manuscript into a "core" with the basic approach, and then this follow on of "How To" examples. The purpose of the book is to give the song lyric writer a more hands on "cookup" feel. We look at creating lyrics in the style of Taylor Swift, Joan Armatrading, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, and the Grateful Dead among others for our cookups. Understand we are concerned with LYRICS, not the melody, harmony, etc. We also cover a lot of practical ground like how to write a funny song, how to write about subjects like altered states of consciousness, transgression, etc.

From the table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Some Quick Revision (Review) of The Core of Lyrics First

Chapter 3: How to Taylor Swift Lyric

Chapter 4: How to Joan Armatrading Lyric

Chapter 5: How To Lou Reed Lyric

Chapter 6: How to Identify Meaningful Changes

Chapter 7: Iterative Lyric Development

Chapter 8: How to Bob Dylan Lyric

Chapter 9: How to Grateful Dead Lyric

Chapter 10: Dreams and How to Write Song Lyrics Using Dream Content

Chapter 11: How to Write About Altered States

Chapter 12: How to Transgressive Lyric

Chapter 13: How to Use Literary Sources

Chapter 14: How to React To Other People's Artistic Output With Your Own

Chapter 15: How to Write Funny Song Lyrics

Chapter 16: How to Christmas Song Lyric

Chapter 17: How to Use Google Translate As Part of Your Song Writing Toolkit

Chapter 18: How to Get Immediate Feedback On Song Lyrics

Chapter 19: How to Protest And Political Song Lyrics

Chapter 20: How to Write Lyrics for a Children’s Song

Chapter 21: The Storyteller

Chapter 22: How to Write Jingle and Commercial Song Lyrics

Chapter 23: How to Leverage Streaming Media

Chapter 25: How to Contact The Author/Inquiries about Professional Services

Professional Service Offer

Chapter 26: The Rules Recap

About the Author, and Thanks!