Our songwriting/music production teacher David Lin will be teaching a 6-week online group songwriting course starting on Sun 15 Nov at 3pm Eastern (12pm Pacific), (2nd section opened starting Sun 15 Nov 1pm Eastern – 10a Pacific) for 6 consecutive Sundays, 90min per meeting.
All singer-songwriters who want to improve their game (or those who want to become singer-songwriters) are welcome to join! If you’ve taken the basic piano video course with Ellie or already play an instrument, you are good to go!
Price for all 6 lessons – $150, sign up here
- $25 coupon – if you had a lesson with any teacher in the past 30 days, use code DAVID25
You will learn the mechanics of all the aspects and elements of writing a song. Including:
Songwriting: Introduction
- Melody, Harmony, Form
- Contrast: making your song not boring
- Storytelling: how to use melody and harmony to tell your story
- Song analysis
Lyric Writing
- Writing using sense-bound language
- How to practice lyric writing
- Rhyming
- Song analysis
Writing Verses / Choruses / Bridges
- How to write a verse
- How to write a chorus
- Types of choruses
- How to write a bridge, and why?
- Using repetition
Music Production For Songwriters
- What is MIDI and why should I care?
- Using technology to help your songwriting process
- Programming a drum groove
- Orchestrating your song
- Sounding “professional”
Tips to get the most out of the course
- Get access to a DAW (GarageBand recomended, Logic, etc)*
- Super helpful to come with questions or parts of a song you want to work on. It’s not required that you have a song or parts of a song tho.
* if you don’t hv a mac, please let us know what computer you’re using so we can make the course relevant to your situation
Class dates:
Group 1 – 1pm EST/ 10am PST (2 spots left)
Group 2 – 3pm EST / 12pm PST (FULL)
- Sun 11/15
- Sun 11/22
- Sun 11/29
- Sun Dec 6
- Sun Dec 13
- Sun Dec 20
Sign up here (whichever time you pick will be your lesson time for all 6 classes)
Feel free to email us at Singing.Lessons.NYC@gmail.com or text at (415) 895-0549 if you have any questions or need help.