I’ve decided to take part in a Massive Online Open Course on Songwriting – I mean I’ll be a student on it obviously! I write the odd song, it takes forever and I’m never quite happy with it – so I figured this might help.
It’s free, which is good and it does look interesting. It’s on Coursera, lasts six weeks and is run by Berklee. Signing up was pretty painless and so far I’ve been sent some easy homework to do in advance – a list of tracks that we’ll be studying in the course that I need to get together. I have some of them already and the rest are on Spotify or in iTunes etc. The only expensive thing is going to be the course text book.
If you fancy trying it – details are here: https://www.coursera.org/course/songwriting