writing – Intensive Learning @ MFS

Songwriting, Day Three: Instrumentals and Meeting a Songwriter!

March 25, 2025March 25, 2025Songwriting SeminarLeave a comment

Today we started the morning off with sharing our songs that we wrote yesterday, as well as giving critics and suggestions. Throughout the day, we worked on composing and matching instrumentals to our lyrics. For my music, I used Band Lab with the alternative pop genre as my inspiration. Later in the day, we...

Songwriting, Day Two: Refrains and Verses

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025Songwriting SeminarLeave a comment

For our second day of IL we learned about refrains and how to use them in a song. With our new-found knowledge of refrains we began to create our own short “songs” using refrains within them. Everyone was working diligently on their songs, and we were told to think of a melody we wanted...

Songwriting, Day One: A First Note

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025Songwriting SeminarLeave a comment

This morning we began our Intensive Learning experience. Over the next week we are going to be both learning about songs and songwriting. We began the morning by setting out some key aspects of being musicians. After settling in for the day, our first activity was that we each had to write our own...