Tuesday - Co-writing

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- Finding Co-writers

- Developing relationships

- Techniques

- Ways to collaborate

- Online communities for collaboration

- Ownership & Publishing

- Advantages and Disadvantages

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Assignments -

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1. Find a person to co-write with.Set up a time and method of collaboration. You present an initial idea and ask them to add to it.

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Notebook - Make a list of five people you would like to collaborate with. Reach out to those people. Keep notes about how it went.

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Thursday - Work-shopping Session

- Bring a song

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Tuesday - Writing Exercises & Finding Ideas

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Working through Ideas 

- Free Writing

    - Toward a Phenomenology of Freewriting - by Peter Elbow

- Webbing

- Cubing

- Metaphors and Similes

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Honing Lyrical Skills

- Rhyming Exercises

- Meter Exercises

- Rewriting sentences and phrases

- Thesaurus You!

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Honing Musical Skills

- What chord fits this note?

- Pivot chords

- Unusual and shifting meters

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Form and Structure Exercises

- Repeating Lines

- Using the Bridge

- Building a Case

- Multiple Sections

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Developing Imagery

- Controlling the Character

- Multiple Settings

- Working in the Abstract

- Landing on a single image

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Assignment - what exercises do you do to warm up for writing? If you were going to give general advice to a songwriter who came to you what would you tell them to do? Send that to me!

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Thursday - Work-shopping session [In Person]

- Bring a song to share.

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Tuesday - Stagecraft

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Thinking through your sets

- Set length

- Set Arc

- Choosing Songs

- Different stages

- Different performing situations

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-Open Mics

-First gigs

    - Senior living centers

    - Coffee Shops

    - Brewerys

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-Livestreaming

   - YouTube

   - Facebook & Instagram

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Thursday - Martin Out [UNCO] Student Recital

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Tuesday -

 

Q&A Discussion -

Bring a Topic to present to the class

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You will have fifteen minutes to present.

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Ideas:

1. Song report - Bring a song and discuss the elements.  

         -  Why do you like/dislike this song?

         - Who wrote it?

         - Who recorded it? 

         - What are the arrangement elements (instrumentation,

          etc.)?

          Was/is the song commercially successful?

          Was/is the song artistically successful?

          etc.

         - What do you think we can learn from this song as

          songwriters?

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2. Process analysis - Read three interviews or articles about songwriting each from a different songwriter.  Contrast and compare their styles, approaches, success (commercial & artistic). 

       - Why did you choose these artists?

       - What do they have in common?

       - What can we learn from each of them as songwriters?

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3. Choose three events from your life that were significant. Tell us about each of those events, how they relate to one another, why they were significant to you, and what we can learn from them

       - How could we make those events into a song?

            - What approach would we take? How would the song

            sound? etc.

       - What do you think we can learn from those events as

       songwriters?

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Assignment: Bring a writing prompt for another person in the class to work on for the week.

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Demos, Charts, and Production of Music

- What do you need when you go into the studio

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- Arrangements of songs

    - Instrumentation

    - Vocals

    - Key, tempo, texture, etc.

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- Method of Recording

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- Making Charts

    - Nashville Numbering System

    - Notation and Tab

    - Lead Sheets and Scores

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- Producer or no producer?

    - how can they help?

    - How can they harm?

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Thursday - Section 2 Workshop (In Person)

Bring a song written from Section 2 writing prompts

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