Back by popular demand: our most hands-on, radically practical workshop experience!

This time, we’re focusing on creating beautiful, interesting and memorable melodies!

What We’ll Do

Over the course of 90 minutes, you'll be guided through a transformative melody-first process that can be replicated easily and consistently in future songwriting projects — regardless of experience, musical skill or genre.

As we move through this process, you'll experience how to effectively begin the songwriting process with melody. You'll also have an opportunity to gather valuable tools and methods for elevating your melody writing throughout all sections of a song.

This is not a workshop where you sit back and take notes. You’ll be writing throughout the session, with clear instructions at every stage.

What You’ll Discover

You’ll learn how to identify when a melody is working and when it isn't. You will also lean how to create multiple variations of the same melodic material and then experiment with each of them to find the best fit for your song.

The exercises in this workshop will show you how easy it is to generate an abundance of original melodic ideas and build songs around them.

Who This Is For

This workshop is for songwriters of any level, from complete beginners to experienced writers.

It’s especially useful if you:

Struggle to write 'interesting' melodies
Have never tried using a melody-first approach
Want to know some tried and tested techniques for strong melodic composition
Need to understand more about the theory of melodic constructions
Want practical tools you can return to whenever you feel blocked

What You’ll Walk Away With

By the end of the workshop, you’ll have:

A finished first draft of a song
A collection of tools and methods to write melodies with
A checklist of considerations to assess the strength of your melody
Greater confidence in your ability to generate memorable melodies & interesting phrases
A clearer understanding of how to apply different melody-writing methods across genres

What to Bring

Bring an instrument (or just your voice), something to write with, and a willingness to try something new.

You do not need to prepare anything in advance.

Just arrive ready to write.

Contact the host of Write a Song in 90 Mins | Songwriting Workshop (FREE)