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The Gold
Standard Song List
5,000
Brilliant Songs ... 100 Years ... 14 Genres
by Wayne Chase
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Title:
The Gold Standard Song List: 5,000 Brilliant
Songs ...
100
Years ... 14 Genres
Author:
Wayne Chase
Publisher: Roedy Black Publishing, Vancouver, Canada
ISBN: 1-897311-60-5
(free PDF); 1-897311-61-3 (paid
PDF)
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WHAT
IS
THE GOLD
STANDARD
SONG
LIST?
AND
WHAT’S
IT
FOR?
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The Gold Standard Song List (GSSL) is an indexed database of
information on 5,000 of the greatest songs in popular music, composed over
a 100-year period. The list encompasses 14 genres,
ranging from ragtime to rap, and everything in between.
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The GSSL was created
specifically for readers of the book,
How Music REALLY Works!,
2nd Edition,
which references hundreds of songs from the GSSL
to illustrate points of excellence in both songwriting artistry and technical skill.
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How Music REALLY Works!, 2nd Edition, provides songwriters and performers
with specific, practical information on how to dramatically improve songwriting and performing skills. The book focuses on techniques for
creating memorable, emotionally powerful music and lyrics.
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If you're a songwriter or performer or producer who
aspires to break away from the pack by developing a distinctive, signature
sound, you will find the Gold Standard Song List a particularly useful
resource. Chapter 11 of How Music REALLY Works!, 2nd
Edition, describes how to use the GSSL to help you achieve this
goal.
SONGWRITING
DOESN’T
GET
ANY
BETTER
THAN THIS:
A
STANDARD
OF EXCELLENCE
TO IMPROVE
YOUR
SKILLS
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Everybody learns by example. So, if you write or perform popular music,
whether in rock, hip-hop, jazz, country, or any other genre, and you want
to improve your skills, the 5,000 songs on the Gold
Standard Song List—the “gold standard of songwriting”—serve as an invaluable standard of excellence, a reference
resource for you to consult at any stage in your musical career.
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You will probably find
that you've never heard many songs on the GSSL.
If you seek out recordings of them,
they will inspire and enlighten you.
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The GSSL
contains enough information on each listed
song to enable you to find at
least one or more recordings of each song, as well as the lyrics.
THE
GSSL
EBOOK
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In the near
future, the GSSL will be available as a modestly-priced eBook—unified,
well-organized, sorted many ways, and easily searchable.
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