Songwriting I – Year One
Songwriter’s Skills and Craft
– Creative Songwriting: Melody and lyrics writing.
– Basic Structures: The Verse-Chorus (AB) form. The Verse-Chorus-Bridge form.
– Theory for Songwriters: Basic concepts of music theory for songwriters.
– Lyric-writing: The 6 best friends. Number of Lines. Length of Lines. Dimension of lines (external, internal, hybrid). Rhyme types.
– Rambling & Scaffolding: Generating ideas, getting inspiration, using your senses
– Rhetoric in Songwriting: Anaphora, Parallelism, etc.
– The Classic Form: Standard AABA form.
– AAA Forms and blues Form: Old but still gold song forms.
– History of Song: Glances at established songwriters.
– Introduction to Music Technology: Creating a song demo.
– Listening and analyzing songs: Understanding forms.
– Modes of Address: Lyrical. Dramatic. Narrative.
– Through-composed Form: a more complex song form.
– Basic Business of Music: Tips for new songwriters.
Songwriting II – Year Two
Collaborative Songwriting
– The Art of Collaboration: Team Songwriting. Finding the right team. Setting lyrics to music. Setting music to lyrics.
– Collaborative project: Writing 2 songs as part of a collaboration
Music Production
– Identity, Vision, Intention: as an artist and as a producer.
– Tools & Strategies: Arranging. Vocals delivery.
– Crafting strong demos: DAW. Audio Interface. Microphones Types. Layering.
The Business of Songwriting
– Songwriter as a writer for other artists and the singer-songwriter.
– Royalties. Performing rights. Songwriters associations. Record Labels.
– Marketing. Product Management. Advertising. PR and branding.
– Cost for recording, session musicians, mix/master, building a website.
Professional Project
Identify, plan and complete a project of your own choosing. This is a chance to present a showcase artefact, representing the songs developed during these 2 years of studies. The length should be between 15 to 20 minutes, relevant to a professional Extended Play (EP).
Related modules: Music Production, Theory for Songwriters, Applied Guitar
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