Topics

  • The genre and its current trends
  • Developing a simple idea
  • Less is more
  • The song structure
  • Listening and learning from records
  • Transcribing tunes
  • Understand what works: when and why
  • Arranging a musical idea
  • Creating a dialog between the parts
  • Listening and learning from records..again
  • Delivering the message effectively
  • Songwriting as a profession

Songwriting & Arranging

This music program is designed for virtually everyone interested in learning or improving the skills of songwriting and arranging for modern music. The course focuses heavily on the importance of listening to the records that are out in the music industry, to extract the elements that make those records work. With the method of starting simple and understanding how to develop, step by step, a music idea with good potentials, this program empowers the student with the essential tools that will shape his artistic and professional identity as a songwriter. In addition to the importance of transcribing and understand what makes some choices work and why, students will learn to analyse the marketing and business trends behind a record, a band or a musical trend of our days.

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