How To Write Songs

About This Event

Writing beautiful melodies can seem like a mystical art. But just like chords and lyrics, there are choices we can make that create different effects – we can control the level of tension, the amount of resolution. We can create fragility; we can resound with determination… because your melody is the most important part of the musical story! It dances with the chords but people walk away singing the melody, not the chords.

This 90-minute workshop dives into tools, concepts, and techniques for creating melodies that tell a story; melodies that convey emotion, and reinforce the lyrics.

By the end of the Workshop, you’ll understand and practice a range of specific choices you can make, and why you would make them when writing your songs. We’ll look at examples in contemporary songs, as well as using a lyric to try out the different concepts in real-time, and seeing the different effects in action.

It will be creative, interactive, with plenty of time to answer questions.

Your Teacher

This Workshop is taught by Ben Romalis.

Ben’s passion for music and creativity stretches across multiple disciplines and art-forms. He is a founding member and songwriter / lap-slide guitarist for one of Australia’s best and most bearded country-bluegrass-folk bands, THE GREEN MOHAIR SUITS. To date the Mohairs have released 4 full-length albums and tour both nationally and overseas.

Ben is also the Founder and Head Producer of SILAMOR STUDIOS, a boutique studio specialising in Composition for Film, TV and Interactive Media. He writes extensively across various instrumental and lyric-based genres and has been commissioned for major projects by Adobe, Cathay Pacific and Audible. He also currently releases original songs under the name SILAMOR.

Ben is passionate about education and has taught song and lyric writing as well as film composition for JMC Academy and the Australian Institute of Music. He also designs and regularly facilitates workshops on creative process and innovation.

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