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 - Licensing and Publishing

 

- The PROs

   - ASCAP

   - BMI

   - SESAC

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- Pitching songs

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- The Songwriter's Market

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- DIY Distribution services

    - CDBaby

    - Distrokid

    - Bandcamp

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- Streaming Services

    - Spotify

    - Pandora

    - Amazon Music

    - YouTube

    - Apple Music

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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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