Songwriting
If you want to be an artist, songwriting skills are at the core of your career. Songwriting can be a way to work through emotions, create something that endures, or just a fun way to play.
Whatever your motivation, we can help you write songs you love and are excited to share.
We offer a monthly free song circle, a series of songwriting classes on specific topics, and one-on-one songwriting consultation.
You can learn:
- Song sections, song structures and arrangements.
- Understand how to analyze what makes great songs work.
- Strategies to find song ideas.
- Narrative, point of view and tense.
- Easy music theory to help you write chord progressions and spice up basic songs.
- Melodic structure and repetition to write catchier songs.
- Jumpstart your creativity and get past writer’s block.
- The most important part of song writing: the editing process.
“Prior to working with Justin, Jacob spent a year under the instruction of a very well-known song writer with multiple contributions to his credit on several gold and platinum records. After a year, I noticed that Jacob’s passion for song writing dwindled and he had not made much progress, so we decided to schedule some sessions with Justin.
“After three sessions with Justin, Jacob seemed to have a spark and passion about song writing that never existed before. I am not sure exactly what it was, but all of the sudden, Jacob was spending a lot of time writing on his own.
“Jacob says that Justin is ‘fun, patient, kind, helpful and easy to talk to. He listens when I talk and explains things in a way that I understand them.’ My son has received a lot of music industry instruction in the past. I must say that I am amazed at what Justin has done with Jacob, and I emphatically recommend him.” – John Larson
