Hit Songwriting Course | Tokyo
- →Learning how to craft powerful melodies and lyric ideas for your tracks.
- →Understanding harmony and melody movement.
- →Get the most out of your writing by understanding how to craft more emotive and detailed lyrics.
- →What makes a lyric relatable, how to choose interesting concepts in today’s industry. How to twist the common topics and lyrical safe bets that work every time.
- →Using music theory for melodies.
- →Understanding melody patterns in pop music.
- →Harmonic and melodic intervals.
- →Different methods to start a top line – melody or lyric first?
- →Finding your own style and feet (creative exercises).
- →Analyze today's billboard hits and some of the classics to understand the patterns in hit music writing.
- →Pitching, Publishing, and PR.
- →Pitching your songs to artists on the latest watchlists.
- →What do the briefings mean? How to ‘decode’ them and know your audience.
- →Tips, tricks and politics for a songwriter.
- →Track examples from different camps.
- →What works and what gets used.
- →Understanding the different types of royalties, publishing deals, splits etc.
- →How to brand and market yourself and your music using social media.
- →Co-writes.
- →Splits.
Hit Songwriting Course | Tokyo
- →Learning how to craft powerful melodies and lyric ideas for your tracks.
- →Understanding harmony and melody movement.
What our students say.
“It was the perfect combination of knowledge and experience. The course was very well planned out, and never did it feel like we were going too slow or too fast.”
Kristina Korban
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Yes - pitching, publishing, PR, royalties and splits, plus how to brand and market yourself and your music.
Crafting powerful melodies and lyric ideas, and understanding how harmony and melody move together in a song.
36 hours, available in-person or via online remote attendance.
36 Hours | In-Person: ¥500,000 | Online Remote Attendance also available
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