work-shopping songs
AIMS:
- To explore approaches to work-shopping songs
- Experimentation: eg jamming, changing style and structure, using instrumental resources, effective use of techniques and games (cut-ups, rhyming games etc), word play and improvisation, using technology
- Case study examples
- Practical songwriting workshops
watch the professionals...
Which techniques do they use?
how would you describe the atmosphere?
What could they do differently?
what do you do when you start working on a new song?
- Get into your performance groups and make a list of all the techniques you use
- What gets the best results?
- What barriers are there?
- Post it!
In your groups...
- Choose a song from your portfolios. preferably one that hasn't been worked with previously
- Using the techniques explored work towards a rough band version: basic structure, simple arrangement
- If you get that far thing about: experimentation. What could you do to augment the arrangement, original parts, jamming and improvisation to find new ideas...