What Will I learn?

Course Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Recognize, analyze, and create various song forms and sectional structures.

• Generate Musical and Lyrical ideas from thin air, even when they encounter writers block.

• Effectively collaborate with other writers and musicians to write songs.

• Utilize songwriting specific musical techniques to create flow through a piece of music, through the use of stable vs. unstable structures.

• Use harmony and melody to effectively and evocatively communicate emotions through their music.

Watch me teach a lyric writing technique