Description

WRITING FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES
Our Songwriting Skills and Strategies series is designed to inspire our students by helping them find new and deeper connections to their creative voice. By exploring from a variety of diverse viewpoints, students will develop a strong sense of form, melody, harmony, and rhythm. Each class will offer students chances to discover new ways of combining words and music into satisfying songs, under the guidance of our amazing artist-educators Colleen Eccleston and Wynn Gogol. Welcome to students of all levels—whether you have been writing for years or have never written a thing! Re-enrollment is strongly encouraged, as students will make new connections and discoveries each time. However, these classes do not need to be taken sequentially.
You want to write a song - but where do you start?
With rhythm, melody, lyrics or chords? In this course we will look at songwriting from different starting points. The ability to write from different angles helps to keep you from getting stuck in the same old patterns and helps you to get inspired once you're stuck.
In this course, we will:• Explore writing to different rhythms and look at how to find them• Create lyrics based on the musicality of language• Work intensely on how to generate meaningful melodies first• Explore setting your poetry to music• Create chordal structures to support your melodies and song ideas• Write songs from from various approaches• Determine how to apply these techniques to songs that have problems

Activity Sub-Category

Music Tech & Creativity - Theory

Location

Music Tech Lab 319 at Downtown - Victoria Conservatory of Music

Instructor

Colleen Eccleston