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Instructor: Joni Harms
All Levels; All Instruments
Joni Harms has 13 (Lucky 13!) studio produced albums under her country-western belt. She is widely hailed as an excellent singer-songwriter. Come to this workshop to learn how she approaches the art of songwriting. Bring your own ideas and leave with new inspiration and tools to turn your snippet into a finished piece.
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Instructor: Andy Reiner
All Levels; All Instruments
Tunewriting is for players who want to explore the compositional side of traditional music. In this workshop, we’ll dissect fiddle tunes to find out what makes them tick, explore different compositional strategies, discuss how to use melodic development to turn a small phrase into a coherent fiddle tune, and learn how to open ourselves up to receive those magic bits of inspiration. As a group, we will collaborate on writing a new tune together, and attendees will leave with a new skill set and inspiration for writing new tunes into the future!
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Instructor: Steve Muise
All Levels; All Instruments
Join a collaborative experience in tune writing. We’ll write a group tune together while gaining some take-away tips
for continuing composing tunes on your own. We’ll talk about inspiration, tune types,key and phrase structures, call and response, resolutions, a bit of theory and more.
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Instructor: Pam Weeks
All levels, All Instruments
There’s a method to the madness of being creative that can give you greater success at writing your own music. We’ll take a little time analyzing common tune and chord structures, and and then spend the session brain-storming techniques to open up your creative well We’ll also check out alternatives to conventional music notation so you can remember what you’ve just composed!
