What's covered in the "Business End" module?

Pitching, publishing and PR, understanding royalties and publishing deals and splits, and how to brand and market yourself and your music.

Does the course get into actual songwriting technique, or just the business side?

Both - "Writing Top Line" and "In-depth Melody and Harmony" cover craft, while "The Business End" covers pitching and the industry.

How long is the course, and can I take it online?

36 hours, available in-person or via online remote attendance.

What happens if I miss a session?

You can catch it up free of charge on a future cycle of the course, or repeat parts of it if you want to.

I've read songwriting books and watched tutorials already - will this actually be different?

Yes - the course focuses on the specific concepts other sources tend to leave out, aimed at bringing out the hit songwriter in you rather than just repeating general theory.

Hit Songwriting Course

Name: Hit Songwriting Course
Price: 28800 HKD

Hit Songwriting Course | Hong Kong

→Learning how to craft powerful melodies and lyric ideas for your tracks.
→Understanding harmony and melody movement.

→Get the most out of your writing by understanding how to craft more emotive and detailed lyrics.
→What makes a lyric relatable, how to choose interesting concepts in today’s industry. How to twist the common topics and lyrical safe bets that work every time.

→Understanding melody patterns in pop music.
→Harmonic and melodic intervals.
→Different methods to start a top line – melody or lyric first?
→Finding your own style and feet (creative exercises).
→Using music theory for melodies.

→Co-writes.
→Splits.
→Analyze today's billboard hits and some of the classics to understand the patterns in hit music writing.
→Pitching, Publishing, and PR.
→Pitching your songs to artists on the latest watchlists.
→What do the briefings mean? How to ‘decode’ them and know your audience.
→Tips, tricks and politics for a songwriter.
→Track examples from different camps.
→What works and what gets used.
→Understanding the different types of royalties, publishing deals, splits etc.
→How to brand and market yourself and your music using social media.

If you miss a session and you'd like to catch it up, or you'd just like to come back and repeat some or all of your course, you can do free of charge on the cycle of your choice as long as we can fit you in!

In Hong Kong the Hit Songwriting Course runs in small groups with industry-active instructors, taught in English, at our studio or live online in the same session, using our specialist music collaboration software, Muse. Students join us from across the region.

36 Hours | In-Person: $28,800 | Online Remote Attendance: $5,999

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Testimonials

In our students' words.

“My songs that were already finished were improved significantly, when I didn't think there was much room to improve. My writing ability and originality also increased. Casey is patient, but also honest, and it's exactly what I needed to get my music to another level. She was always open to hear original songs and give feedback, and was very good with answering questions even if they were asked more than once. If I could take the course myself again I totally would.”

Evan Frazer

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