• Songwriters’ Gumbo: Combining the Ingredients – All levels

  • with Maura Kennedy

Great songwriting begins with inspiration, but where do you go from there? We’re going to look at songwriting like cooking a delicious stew. You need the basic ingredients and then you add the spices that make it unique. We’ll discover how to use those spices judiciously by cleaning out cliches, finding new metaphors, changing up the structure, adding the often-overlooked details that give a story and a song authority, and more. Every day you’ll get cues and techniques that will help you bring your songwriting to a new level. You’ll also get tips on how to open yourself up to inspiration.