Songwriters Workshop Intensive August 19 meeting

Plans for the August meeting

It's the last chance to share a "Trunk Song" at our August 19th workshop! Find a song you've been working on, dust it off, incorporate some of the feedback you've received, and prepare to present it in August. It's your last chance to share a "trunker" because starting with the Songwriter's Workshop Reboot 2.0, all songs presented will need to be from the assignment given the previous month.
Slight update to the order of things. Briain is only available on the 19th until 7:30. The song reviews for the songs submitted (above) will begin promptly at 6 pm. After Brian leaves we can do the introductions and receive our first assignment for the REBOOT sessions starting in September

In case you missed it, here is the new 6 month plan for the REBOOT of the Songwriters Workshop Intensive.

1. Diana Hanson Young is BACK! She will take responsibility for tutorials for six months, which are essentially structured like a six-month lesson plan for Basic Songwriting.

2. Diana and Brian are asking each person who chooses to participate in the reboot to commit to the six months of these FREE lessons. (August through January of 25) -- please commit to come to all the classes and write the song that is part of the assignment: Any performance venue we can rustle up will feature songs that are written for this structure. We are working on ways to record the lessons as a YouTube video and make them available on a private channel if you miss one.

3. Each class will have a 15-30 minute tutorial starting at 6:05 PM (slight change for Aug 19 - see above) . Followed by a 5 minutes for intro, otherwise, intro at the end to those who are late). Diana will pull up the lessons from the early days and draft a basic songwriting class -- Brian and Diana and working on the class outline and subject matter and we hope to have that for you on August 19th

4. Diana will provide (as she did in earlier years) material like poems, writings, photographs, scenarios) that all of us can draw from to write our songs that follow the assignment.

5. There will also be in-class writing assignments -- words to snippets of music, and music to snippets of words.
6. During that time we'll get outside guests to come in and critique, as well as present parts of tutorials.

7. The following meetup will have a new tutorial, which will generate a new assignment based on the lesson, and everyone will present their work from the previous assignment. This plan worked really well before and gave everyone structure, plus a reason to write a song using the tutorial material, rather than bringing in independent work to have the group critique. We're basically going back to a learning-based structure.