Songwriters

Master the subtleties of refined acoustic guitar flair with finger-style, hand strumming and rolling thumb techniques

With Songwriter’s Acoustic Guitar Companion: Expanded Edition, Leo Cavallo and Sony Creative Software name you, the songwriter, as the primary beneficiary of this incredible, 24-bit, double-disc collection of essential chord patterns. Browse through these sounds and you’ll be endlessly entertained and amazed as you try to name all the smash hit singles born with just an acoustic guitar, a timeless lyric, and chord progressions just like these! Your amazement will turn into pure inspiration as new songs emerge from your desktop studio, one after another. For our special Expanded Edition, ace producer Leo Cavallo has embellished this already stunning collection with more than 200 megs of fresh material, making your Companion into a full on construction kit!

What is creativity? Where does it come from? Whether it is defined as coming from God, the universe, or some collective font of eternal knowledge, most creative individuals acknowledge that at times their inspiration seems to emanate from a mysterious metaphysical source. Songs affect people's lives on a profound level, and songwriters are especially attuned to this. Author Dan Kimpel — who has interviewed virtually every major songwriter in the history of American popular music — has observed that many successful songwriters are often able to tap their spirituality for inspiration. In this collection of insightful and inspirational interviews with the world’s top songwriters, we get an inside glimpse of how some of our favorite songs were created, and how songwriters often call on a higher power to help facilitate the creative process.