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SummerSongs | Songwriting Camp for Songwriters & Musicians. We encourage, support and promote the creation of songs and the work of the songwriters. Read teacher interviews and other interesting articles about songwriting and the camp experience at SummerSongs, where your creativity is set free.
SummerSongs
2y ago
This is our time to create songs from a place of freedom, flow and fun. Each day we’ll show up and allow ourselves to dip into the waters of creativity – we will listen, we will write, co-write, and we’ll mine ideas and marry together music and words. Using games and prompts, we’ll practice being …
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SummerSongs
2y ago
In light of all that’s going on in the world right now there’s plenty to write about. We’ll redefine the connection between what is deeply personal and what paints with a broader brush in the realm of the human condition. Can a song make a difference? Let’s start with chorus’s that soar, spirited conversation, current …
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SummerSongs
2y ago
Never written a song before? Brimming with ideas that are all dressed up and no place to go? No ideas at all? Let’s roll up our sleeves together and start at the beginning. This all-levels class is geared especially towards those who are new to the craft but also to those who simply might like …
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SummerSongs
2y ago
This class will be a safe place to try out your song. Maybe you’re still writing it, or you wrote it last winter and you’re not sure if it’s done. Bring that song that keeps hitting the wall in the middle of the 2nd verse; or the chorus that won’t get along with any of …
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SummerSongs
2y ago
As we journey along our road as a songwriter, we might find that we develop grooves in the blacktop: habits of how to start a song, and how to develop it. Here’s a chance to open the window and let a fresh breeze blow through your songwriting vehicle. We are looking for beginner’s mind, and …
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SummerSongs
2y ago
An architect wouldn’t put up a building without a blueprint. Start to finish, Mark will take you through the whole process sequentially through the week ~ answering the basic questions before spending time and money: Play and sing at the same time or not? Record to a click or not? How to record simple demos at home …
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SummerSongs
2y ago
Never written a song before? Brimming with ideas that are all dressed up and no place to go? No ideas at all? Let’s roll up our sleeves together and start at the beginning. This all-levels class is geared especially towards those who are new to the craft but also to those who simply might like …
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SummerSongs
2y ago
Master musician, engineer, and SummerSongs staple Mark Dann will again offer his mid-day variety of different one-time classes which will include guitar setup and adjustments, basic chart writing, learn how to accompany anybody on the bass in one class – even if you’ve never held a bass in your hands before – and Garageband 101 …
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SummerSongs
2y ago
Perhaps the most powerful word in the songwriter’s toolbox is “I”. When I sing what I write in the first person, I make a statement that is at once personal AND universal. Come discover this voice through prompts, exercises, writing a chorus that soars, and spirited exploration of lyric, melody, chord progression, rhythm, and point …
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SummerSongs
2y ago
Maura has been singing for audiences since she began staging her own shows on the back steps at the age of five. She’s been perfecting her stagecraft ever since, and her adult life has been spent traveling the US and Europe. She’s always shunned tricks and gimmicks, focusing on making her listeners feel the depth …
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