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SONG WRITING

North Shore and Auckland

 
 

write your own songs

For Adults or kids Aged 10+

Our songwriting students explore the fundamental components of songwriting: rhythm, rhyme, song structure, lyrics, and melody etc, through an analysis of current pop songs and familiar tunes. 

At the end of the course, students will use the tools they have learnt to write, notate and record their own original songs.

TOPICS:

  • Introduction to songwriting

  • Components of songwriting such as song structure, rhythm, melody and harmony (chords)

  • How to write a catchy hook and melodic tools such as repetition and sequence

  • Lyrical tools such as rhyme, imagery, metaphor

  • Music theory

  • Recording experience.

 

learn how to write your own songs