7-Day Songwriter Course
Write your next song in just seven days!
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7-Day Songwriter Course Overview
Complete a whole song — start to finish — in one week.
The 7-Day Songwriter Course is a short, practical songwriting experience designed to help you stop overthinking and start finishing.
You’ll receive a daily songwriting prompt (plus small, helpful resources) delivered straight to your inbox. Each day takes you one clear, sequential step closer to a finished song — without overwhelm, without guessing, and without waiting for inspiration.
This is not a theory course and it’s not about consuming more content. It’s about doing the work, following a proven process, and building real confidence by experiencing how quickly a song can come together when you have structure.
By the end of the week, you won’t just have a brand-new completed song — you’ll know that you can do it again and again.
Course Features
Your Next Song — Written in 7 Days
A simple, structured path to get you from “I want to write” to “I finished a whole song.”
7 Daily Prompts (Delivered to Your Inbox)
Each day brings a fresh, focused prompt with a tiny resource or insight to keep you moving—nothing overwhelming, always actionable.
Access to Live Song Feedback with the HTWS Team
At the end of the 7 days, you’ll be invited to a live Song Feedback Session with the How To Write Songs team — an experience normally reserved for our paid members.
You can submit your song, and a small number are chosen at random for in-depth, constructive group feedback covering lyrics, melody, structure, and craft.
A rare chance to watch real-time song crafting in action — and see exactly how a rough draft gets shaped into a stronger, more compelling song.
Who This Is For
This challenge is designed for anyone who wants a simple structure to take action—no skill level required beyond the basics of playing a few chords and writing some words.
It’s perfect for:
- Songwriters who thrive with structure, deadlines, and momentum
- Creative do-ers who want immediate progress, not more planning or theory
- People who want to stop thinking about writing songs and actually write one
- Musicians who want a quick, confidence-building win that proves they can finish what they start
- Anyone who wants to feel that quiet, powerful moment of: “Hey…I made this.”
No prerequisites. No perfectionism. Just seven focused days and a plan.
“I loved that we had a small task each day. It felt attainable, yet gave us a world of possibilities in a day.”
“I liked the steady (but manageable) pace, descriptions and action steps, the bridge questions and video, the returns to free writing to keep creating fresh material.”
“I liked the structured, actionable steps, that when followed, lead to a first draft of a completed song, not just a half finished one.”
Why it Matters
Because most of us don’t struggle with ideas—we struggle with starting and finishing. This challenge hands you both.
When you commit to a small daily step, something shifts. You stop waiting for the “right time” and start proving to yourself that you can create on command. You build trust in your own creative instincts. You learn that finishing isn’t magic—it’s momentum.
And when you finish even one song, everything else becomes easier:
Your confidence rises. Your creative energy wakes back up. You remember why you love this.
Seven days isn’t long. But it’s long enough to change how you see yourself as a songwriter.
It’s starts with Day 1.
“The step by step guided tour of songwriting was super fun and helpful.”
“Very clear exposition of a powerful system for turning an idea into a song”
“I learned that songwriting doesn’t have to be a slogging, grueling process. My biggest takeaway was the importance of getting a first draft done quickly to work with, of digging into an idea while it’s fresh.”
Keppie & Benny are your Guides
World-class educators
Keppie and Benny have been teaching songwriting in world-class and globally recognized colleges and universities for over 15 years, including for The Berklee College of Music, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Australian College of the Arts, and more. Teaching others is not a “plan B” for us – it’s a calling, a passion, and a privilege, which has been sought out by the world’s best institutions of higher learning in contemporary music education.
Professional songwriters
Keppie’s original and co-written songs have been streamed over 10 million times in the past 3 years alone; an album of original work was commissioned by Penguin Random House in 2022; and in 2024 she was a featured artist on a Grammy-nominated album.
Benny is a founding member of internationally touring bluegrass band The Green Mohair Suits, and has been commissioned for major projects by Adobe, Cathay Pacific and Audible.
Passionate communicators
Our popular YouTube channel, How to Write Songs, has well over 170K subscribers, and almost 10 million views of our videos. Our unique ability to turn theory into practice with passion, humour, and joy, has inspired songwriters around the world.
