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The Basics of Pro Songwriting (Skillshare)

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Learn from a Grammy-Winning Songwriter, all the basics that you need to know for creating a hit song. We cover fundamentals like melody, lyrics, arrangement, chords, and more.

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The class project is for you all to write a song about the person or thing that you love the most, using the fundamentals we cover in the class, and to record it (doesn't have to be great quality, you can even upload an iphone recording or garageband demo - We will address great production techniques in the next class)
The final deliverables are an mp3 or m4a and your lyric file.
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