Hit Songwriting Course

• Learning how to craft powerful melodies and lyric ideas for your tracks.
• Understanding harmony and melody movement.

• 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.

• 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.

• Balancing, introduction to the art of mixing. Group tracks and advanced uses of routing
• Introduction to sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
• The recording patch in detail, introduction to gain structure
• EQ and compression for recording
• Foldback, headphone mixes, and latency
• Digital, analog, sampling rate and bit-rate explained
• Microphones overview and stereo miking techniques
• Recording specific aspects of Ableton
• Compiling audio takes

• 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).