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