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Songwriting for Everyone

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Overview

Learn how to write songs without needing to read or write music!

What you'll learn:
  • Compose a song in any style or genre without needing to read or write music, and without needing to play an instrument.

This is a songwriting course for everyone,whether you're alreadya musician, or someone with no training at allbutthe desire to create music.

Think of composers such as Paul McCartney, who admits to no formal training in music. Or singers, whoeven at an early agecan sing in perfect pitch.The ability to create music is in everyone.

Have you ever seenBehind The Music or an interview with a famous composer or band on how they actually write their songs?They almost always play chords on a guitar or piano which generates melodies in their mind.

In this course you will learn howmelodies are generated in themind as chords are played. You will seehow musical phrases are joined into sentences, and then combined intosections, which form songs. Throughout the course Iuse real world examples of contemporary hitsongssuch as Rihanna's "Stay"and Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself." I also discuss and demonstrate the application of basicsongwriting techniques and song elementsin classic rock songs from Led Zeppelin to Nirvana.

Thesesections -Introduction,Verse,Pre-Chorus,Chorus and Bridge -are the main elements of today's modern music. At the end of this course you will be able to compose as many songs as youwish, in any style or genre!

This is an interactive course, where I play chord progressions on the guitar as you singmelodies. By the end of this courseyou will have written your first song, and you willbe able to compose as many songs as you wish, in any style -pop, jazz, rock, country, and more!

Taught by

Joseph Lilore

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