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Deep Songwriting - A Practical Guide to Writing Song from the Heart

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About Deep Songwriting - A Practical Guide to Writing Song from the Heart

Introduction

About This Class

Breathe and Warm Up

Understanding Your Taste

Setting Scenes

Advanced Rhyme and Meter

Study and Memorise The Masters

Observation and Listening

Songwriting Recipe

Setting Space

Songseeds and Songpsaces

Designing a Session

Songseed and Songspace 1 - Comfort

Deep songwriting Songseed 2 - Connection

Deep songwriting Songseed 3 - Catharsis

Deep songwriting Songseed 4 - Clarity

Deep songwriting Songseed 5 - Celebrate

Examples and Discussion

Finishing Songs

Goodbye

What You Will Learn?

  • In this class you will learn how to translate your feelings and life experiences into meaningful, heartfelt songs.  You will learn tools, techniques and get inspired to develop your own nourishing songwriting practice. .
  • Songwriting is a spiritual practice and a self care practice. It can act as a form of catharsis, and a way to sit with difficult emotions..
  • This style of songwriting practice isn’t about end results, it’s about the process. It’s a journey of self discovery. Through writing songs you can explore all the facets of your self and give voice to parts that are hurting or hiding..
  • This class will offer you a simple, guided, step-by-step process for writing songs. If you are a beginner, this class will give you a place to start. If you are already songwriting this class will re-invigorate your practice..
  • In the first half of this class we will work  through some concepts, techniques and tools for songwriting. Then in the second half we will get really practical and design a songwriting session and then using what I can songseeds and songspaces you will write your own songs. To close we will talk about to finish songs, and then how to share them if you choose to..
  • What will I need to take this class?A journalA recording device (as simple as your phone, just to capture what you write!).
  • Let’s write some heartfelt songs together!.