March Songwriting Challenge
Spring is a great time of year for new ventures. Maybe getting some more songs written was on your New Year list and just hasn’t happened?
Well, springtime is a time for fresh starts and new beginnings so why not let us help you to get that first new song of 2012 written?
Songwriters Circle is now booking for our April month long Songwriting Challenge course. Every day for the whole of the month we will send you a link to a lesson and a songwriting prompt to help you make this April your most prolific ever. The aim of the challenge is that by the end of the 30 days you will have one song you are really happy with and a whole toolkit to help you next time your songwriting needs a boost.
Click here now to buy the June 30 Day Song Challenge 2012 for only £17
Let us help you take those first vital steps to getting your songs written.
The course is ideal for newcomers or old hands as you can work at your own pace and level. It doesn’t matter if you don’t write your own music or play an instrument you can still take part. We work on both lyric writing and ideas for music for your songs. If you aren’t able to write your own music there are thousands of traditional tunes that you can borrow and tweak to make them your own.
You will learn techniques to use when the words just won’t come, ways to kickstart your writing. We know that many people think songs just ‘come’ to them without doing any work but that is a very rare thing. Even when it does happen the song can usually be improved by giving it a little polish.
What about those of you who just feel really stuck? We have ideas and techniques to help you too. Here is just one example:when people who do any kind of writing get stale and stuck there is a really useful concept called ‘dare to be bad’. Come and join us and find out what it means and how it can help your songwriting.
We believe that showing up for 30 minutes every day for a month to concentrate on your songwriting sends powerful messages to your brain and to your inner ‘muse’. It shows that you are serious and that this is something you value. This is also. in part, why we charge money for the course. From our experience you are far more likely to value and complete something if you have paid for it.
One of the best things about the course is sharing ideas and responses with other songwriters. All the lessons have a private shared space for you to respond, comment and to add your works in progress. You will learn how to use free online services to share your work privately and easily with no set up costs.
Andy is there in the community on a regular basis, explaining things, making suggestions and giving feedback on your work, if you want it. Because we limit the number of people on the course there is no need to feel shy or uncomfortable in a big group.
Each week you get a PDF with the lesson, and everyone’s comments, that you can keep and refer to whenever you need to. This resource means that if you want to reuse any of the techniques we cover you will have it all at your fingertips. It is not quite the same as going through the challenge with a group though and people who have done the challenge more than once have found they got something different out of it each time. As you grow and change as a writer it means that you can access the material at a higher level so even experienced songwriters have found it useful.
Click here now to buy the June 30 Day Song Challenge 2012 for only £17
Let us help you take those first vital steps to getting your songs written.
