Turn your inspiration into beautiful songs with step-by-step guidance through two professional songwriting methods.
What You’ll Learn
Course Content
Course Information
- Description
- Who is this for?
- Why Take this course?
- Requirements
Songwriting is like anything else: YOU CAN GET BETTER AT IT – with deliberate practice, practical tools and repeatable methods.
- Got great idea, but don’t 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 idea—with lyrics or music first—there 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 one—but two!—different songwriting processes:
- starting with lyrics first, and
- starting with music first
At 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; you’ll have a plan and a method for finishing your songs – all of them.
- People looking for a structured, comprehensive, step-by-step guide, instead of random YouTube videos
- People who have a song idea but don’t know where to start.
- People with lots of half-written (and unfinished!) songs.
- People who want to learn from working songwriters who are also expert teachers.
- Band members and instrumentalists who have always wanted to write songs, but are not quite sure how.
- Songwriters of any level looking for new exercises, techniques, and processes to freshen up their practice.
- Musicians who are keen to develop their songwriting skills.
- 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 decade’s 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.
- No prior songwriting experience needed!
- An initial song idea, or unfinished songs you want to finish.
- The ability to play basic chords on the guitar or piano (or the willingness to learn).
- Or familiarity with a DAW to create chord-based tracks.
- the burning desire to write some songs!
- A good sense of humour, and the willingness to try.
- This course is not for people who believe that you either ‘have it’ or you don’t. It is for people who understand that you can get better at anything, if you have the right tools, and are willing to practice
Your Instructors
HOW TO WRITE SONGS
We are Keppie Coutts and Ben Romalis, two professional songwriters, performing artists and teachers with over 40 years of collective experience in the music industry.
We have studied and taught at some of the best contemporary music colleges in the world including Berklee College of Music, Sydney Conservatorium, the Australian College of the Arts, the Australian Institute of Music, the LA School of Songwriting and JMC Academy.
Our goal is to help people write better songs! Our belief, having worked with thousands of songwriters (many going on to find careers and success in music), is that your songwriting, like all things, can get better with meaningful and deliberate practice. Our intention is to share the skills, knowledge and ideas that we’ve had the privilege of gathering with others who embrace the art and craft of songwriting.
Testimonials
“For the past year, I had a bunch of half-finished songs and flagging motivation to complete them. I was able to apply the methods learned and wrote 3 brand new songs in 3 days. That’s definitely worth the price for me!”
Wayne E.
“I love how their lessons are really clear and direct. Nothing vague, because art can be organic but it can also have guidelines.”
Stefany Eduardo D.
“Really simple but powerful ideas. I have been sitting on ideas for a while and ended up writing 2 songs as a result of this course!”
Steven H.
“This is a remarkable course. It’s short and efficient, but never feels rushed, and in its short span Keppie and Benny show two completely different methods for writing a song, start to finish, with plenty of detail and illustrations, and step-by-step instructions for what you should do as you go along. Incredibly helpful and illuminating!”
Gillian B.
Self-Paced Online Course
USD$89.00