When the Hits Hit the Fan marries the process of songwriting and living a songwriter's life
with humor and empathy. It unravels the mystery science and livelihood behind the rapidly
evolving art of songwriting but ends up revealing just as much about who we the listeners
are and where we may be going. These are lessons and tools Mike Errico has honed over years of
writing performing teaching and mentoring. This is a book for songwriters future content
creators music lovers and all the rest of us who are dying to know how popular art forms are
able to touch us so deeply. Think Stephen King's On Writing and Mary Karr's The Art of the
Memoir for the songwriter meets books that are a result of that writing like Alan Light's
The Holy and the Broken and Jacob Slichter's So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star to books
about the industry John Seabrook's The Song Machine and Derek Thompson's Hit Makers and
finally experimental love letters to the art form like Rob Sheffield's Dreaming the Beatles
David Byrne's How Music Works and Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia.40 000 songs are uploaded to
Spotify...per day. Recording equipment is cheaper than ever which has lowered the bar of entry
for music creation. Educators have taken note and School of Rock franchises are opening
nationally while major universities scramble to update their music curricula and provide
courses their students find relevant. Songland a songwriting-specific competition show just
debuted on NBC and the interest in how songs work has never been higher. People spend millions
of hours on YouTube learning how to mix and master their music. When the Hits Hit the Fan will
be an invaluable tool to help them find (and write!) material that rises to the level of their
creative curiosity.Anyone who reads When the Hits Hit the Fan: will definitely gain help in
writing a tight focused song that kicks the door down for all their visions to rush through.
You'll plant a flag so you can build a creative world around it a world intrinsic to who you
are and for it to feel nontrivial and undeniable to whoever's listening.
