Winter School – Songwriting
Date:
With:
Charles Jenkins
Rating:
EARLY, EMERGING
Summary:
Emerging songwriters will learn about the generation of ideas and how to turn ideas into songs. Improve your lyrics, explore different song styles, get tips on co-writing, performance and recording, and learn how to engage the listener with all of your songs. You are invited to bring in your song lyrics for feedback.
Details
You will learn
- how to write a song from scratch
- how to be able to write songs all the time
- how to make the most of every song idea
- how to improve your lyrics
- how to improve your melodies.
About Charles Jenkins
Charles Jenkins is an ARIA-nominated Melbourne songwriter/musician with more than 30 years’ experience. He has released and toured 14 albums locally and internationally, with his latest winning the 2014 AGE/Music Victoria award for best folk/roots album. His songs have been placed in local and international television and film. He is an Ambassador for APRA AMCOS and signed to Mushroom Publishing.
“He's too good a writer not to be in your life.” SMH
You can check out our interview with Charles about bursting into song on this website.
Winter School
Check out the other Winter School workshops going on in July 2016:
- Winter School – Poetry and the Past with Ali Alizadeh
- Winter School – Getting Your Manuscript Ready for Submission with Shivaun Plozza
- Winter School – Getting a Story Started with Amie Kaufman
- Winter School – The Narrative in Non-Fiction with Damon Young
- Winter School – Songwriting with Charles Jenkins
- Winter School – How to Run a Writing Event with Sam Twyford-Moore
- Winter School – YA with Fiona Wood
- Winter School – Ghostwriting with David Brewster
- Winter School – Blogging with Karen Andrews
- Winter School – On the Page with Clare Strahan
- Winter School – Historical Fiction with Kate Mildenhall
- Winter School – The Ethics of Using Real Stories in Fiction with Laura Jean McKay
- Winter School – Travel Writing with Kate J Armstrong
- Winter School – Fantasy and Magic Realism in Short Story with Leanne Hall
Venue:
Registration for this event ended on 08 July 2016 - 9:00