Tuesday - Revising your ideas

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Revising Guidelines

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  - Strategies for working through the hard moments.

  - Making your songs more interesting.

  - Layered approach

     - Sculptor

     - Professor

     - attourney

  - Thinking through your characters and narrative elements.

  - Merging ideas

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Rewriting worksheet

     

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Assignments -

1. Make a list of common phrases you use when you speak.

2. Make a list of questions to ask yourself when editing

3. Rewrite a verse of song you have already finished that uses a "predictable" rhyme. Use less "predictable words".

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Thursday - [IN-PERSON] @ Swallow Hill - Workshopping songs with Caleb Schwing

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Tuesday - revising your lyrics

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Revising Lyrics - Guidelines

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- Thinking through your narrative

- Thinking through your imagery

- Punching up your lines

- Finding your own words

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Assignment: Write a song from one of the song prompts, or from your title list or idea list.

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Thursday - Workshopping session [In Person]

- Bring a song to share that you have worked on revising

Tuesday - Revising Your Music

Revising Music - Guidelines

 

 

- Re-harmonizing

- composing a linear melody

- Differentiating your sections

- Groove and texture

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Assignment: Write a song using the chord progression: Am-D-G in the verse. Start your chorus on a Bm chord.

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Thursday - No Class - Martin Out

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Don't forget to contact Martin about setting up a 1-on-1 song coaching session!

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Tuesday - Finishing revising?

- laying out your song

- creating the product

- Preparing it for rehearsal

- revision after performance

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- Chart template

 

Assignment: Finish a song that you have started and make a lyric sheet with the chord progression.

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Thursday - Section 2 Workshop (In Person)

Bring a song written from Section 2 writing prompts

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