Songwriting: Creating together

Entry requirements: you sing and/or master an instrument well enough to play together. And you enjoy making music together! 

This musical course focuses on creating and performing together. With a group of 6 students, you will spend 10 weeks working on self-written lyrics, melodies and arranging song ideas. Guitarists, percussionists, pianists, singers, saxophone or ukelele, any instrument or voice is welcome!

In each class, teacher Helene Richter will provide a creative starting point, this could be a beat or sample, a melody, a bassline, a chord progression, or a piece of text. Together, we’ll use these building blocks to improvise, jam, and actively listen to one another, gradually shaping each idea into a complete piece. Everyone will take on a musical role in each song. 

We play (semi-)acoustic, and the sessions are unamplified, though guitar amps and microphones are available, we do not use drums or a full PA system.

What you will learn 

• How to write a song from different inputs 

• Creating music together 

• Overcoming creative blocks 

• A feel for arranging songs 

• Stage experience 

• Listening more consciously to yourself and others 

• An impression of how artists/composers work 

• Collaborate 

• Improvisation