Songwriting is like anything else: YOUCANGETBETTERATIT - with deliberate practice, practical tools and repeatable methods. Got great ideas, but dont know how to turn them into songs?Bingeing YouTube videos on songwriting, but wish there was a step-by-step guide to follow?Struggling to bring music and lyrics together?Want to create beautiful melodies and interesting chord progressions?Want to write your BEST lyrics and express your ideas with clarity and conviction’this course has got you covered! Even if you’ve never written a song before, this course is all about revealing to you the step-by-step methods that professional songwriters use to write a complete song, every time. Your teachers, Keppie Coutts and Ben Romalis, are both professional artist and songwriters who have collectively over 40 years of experience writing, performing and teaching at Universities and Colleges around the world. No matter where you start a song ideawith lyrics or music firstthere is a step-by-step process you can follow to turn it into a finished song. This songwriting course is radically practical! Our singular aim with this course is to show you how to take your initial inspiration and turn it into a finished song - every time. We take you step by step through not onebut two! different songwriting processes: starting with lyrics first, andstarting with music firstAt every point along the way, we reveal the thought processes and creative decisions essential to the songwriting process, demonstrate how to do it, and how to fill your tool belt with techniques, methods, strategies, and processes that you can apply to your songwriting every time. By the end of this course, not only will your tool belt be stocked; youll have a plan and a method for finishing your songs - all of them. Why Take This Course?Structured to take you deep inside not one, but two, different songwriting processes, in a methodical, comprehensive, and step-by-step way. Designed and created by two professional songwriters with diverse careers across multiple genres, not just pop and country - we write for major enterprises and organisations, cable TV, international publishing companies, video games, musical theatre, and more. Your teachers are both professional educators in Higher Education, with over a decades experience in world-class course design and delivery. Your teachers teach at world class contemporary songwriting institutions. Demonstrates through example, and always extracts the tools, techniques, and methods that can be applied to any songwriting process. Addresses head-on the most common question people have: lyrics first or melody first?Gives you a behind-the-scenes breakdown of the songwriting process, from the actual creators of the songs. Carefully curated playlists of over 50 song examples that demonstrate key concepts. Your Teachers - Industry ExpertsKeppie and Benny are working professional songwriters, and both teach contemporary songwriting in some of the worlds most renowned colleges and universities. They are also the founders of the popular How to Write Songs YouTube Channel, with a hell-bent mission to help people become better songwriters. Keppie has taught songwriting at the Berklee College of Music, for Berklee Online, the Australian College of the Arts, the Open Academy at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as well as at the Songwriting School of Los Angeles. Ben has taught for the JMC Academy and the Australian Institute of Music. As working songwriters, Keppie has written and co-written songs that have had over 10 million streams in the past 2 years with bands and artists as diverse as ARIA-nominated Twelve Foot Ninja (heavy metal) and Universal Music songwriter Skye. Keppies songs appear in major network television shows, and most recently, Keppie was commissioned by Penguin Random House to write one of the first full albums of original work to appear in a major audiobook release (Mothertongues, 2022).Keppies voice is beautiful, just gorgeous. Shes like a contemporary female Nick Drakeand her guitar playing is so beautiful, so raw John MayerCoutts songs marry soul and folk so gorgeously, youll cheer when they get stuck on endless repeat on the jukebox in your brain. The Boston GlobeBen Romalis has composed music for large companies such as Adobe and Cathay Pacific, and also composes music for games, televisions and advertising. As a songwriter, he is a founding member of the internationally touring alt-country band, The Green Mohair Suits, which has released 4 studio albums to date. Ben is the founder and head producer at Silamor Studios, a boutique studio specializing in video and audio production. Green Mohair Suits make music for pleasure. Our pleasure. If you dont find yourself smiling, tapping or joining in on one of those harmonies, youre leading a very sad life. Sydney Morning HeraldBen lectures across a range of subjects including Songwriting, Production and Composition for Screen. He has vast experience designing and delivering workshops on creativity and innovation, as well as mentoring
