Hit Songwriting Class | Miami
Hit Songwriting Course
Why is it that you can create songs that sound good to you, but industry still feel that they aren’t hits? Have you done your homework with regard to reading theory and watching hit-making tutorials on YouTube and it makes no difference? Panic not!
Our Miami classes for the Hit Songwriting Class are small and hands-on, taught at our studio by producers active in the city's electronic, Latin and hip-hop scenes. If you would rather learn from home, the same sessions run live online with the same instructors and the same class size, using our specialist music collaboration software, Muse.
Creating Top Line
- →How to put together powerful melodies and strong lyric ideas for tracks.
- →Understanding harmonic and melodic phrasing and movement.
Outstanding Lyric Writing
- →How to extract maximum impact for your lyrics by making them more emotive and detailed.
- →Creating relatable lyrics for today’s sounds, with an emphasis on interesting concepts. How to intensify and spin common topics – and conventional lyrical concepts that always work.
Understanding Melody and Harmony
- →Understanding music theory to help construct melodies.
- →Using melodic patterns in broad appeal pop music.
- →Understanding intervals in harmonic and melodic composition.
- →Which came first – lyric or melody?
- →Creative exercises specifically designed to extract your own brand of creativity while building confidence.
The Business Perspective
- →Analysis of current and historic billboard hits to uncover patterns in writing, arranging and construction.
- →Exploration of publishing, song pitching and the role of PR.
- →Pitching songs to artists on the latest ‘looking lists’.
- →How to interpret songwriting briefs, and understanding the demographic you’re writing for.
- →Tips and tricks and the politics of being a songwriter.
- →Analysis of examples created at different camps.
- →Analysis of what’s successful.
- →Understanding royalties, splits, publishing deals and so on.
- →Brand and marketing yourself and your music employing social media.
- →Co-writing etiquette.
This top-line songwriting course is going to show you what you need to know – where other sources are either unable or unwilling to do so. The concepts we share are designed to draw the hit songwriter out of you! Our Miami-based hit songwriting course can show you how to write hits – either for yourself or for today’s current artists. Discover qualities that distinguish us, here.
Student reviews.
“Learned about song structure theoretically, but also about how to implement it. We saw what a songwriting session looks like, and how to get past obstacles that are common to those types of creative marathons.”
Michael Wiener
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Common questions, answered.
Yes - "Outstanding Lyric Writing" covers how to make lyrics more emotive and specific, and how to put a fresh spin on familiar topics.
Yes - check out student feedback from our longer Songwriting & Production 360° Academy Program.
Use the "Connect" button to request schedule information - a placement expert will follow up within a business day.
Both - "The Business Perspective" covers publishing, pitching, royalties, splits and how to brand yourself and your music.
It's about putting strong melodies and lyric ideas together, and understanding how harmonic and melodic phrasing move within a song.
Yes - there's a studio collaboration opportunity to compose a top-line for a project that could be pitched to an artist.
36 hours - $1,499 + $100 registration (14+ days out) / $1,799 + $200 otherwise
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