How long does it take to read Beginning Songwriting?
Andrea Stolpe
Beginning Songwriting by Andrea Stolpe takes about 2 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 41 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2015. 146 pages, about 40,150 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Learn to write songs! This book presents the basic concepts of popular songwriting, such as song construction, creativity techniques, melodic and harmonic development, how to write memorable lyrics, and other core topics. Hands-on exercises make it practical, and the accompanying recording illustrates the concepts for those who don't yet read music.
Subjects: Popular music, Writing and publishing, Lyric writing (Popular music), Popular music, writing and publishing
