Songwriting

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Songwriting Lessons.

The Hickory Arts songwriting student, that's contemporary writing and production, will study composition, arranging, scoring, and production techniques and approaches. The student will explore contemporary concepts and techniques of arranging and sound production in both the analog and digital domains and will gain valuable experience by being able to create, arrange and produce projects using MIDI workstations.

The student will be presented with many opportunities to develop the ability to recognize, analyze and evaluate musical concepts of jazz, pop, rock, and other contemporary music idioms and styles through the study of quality compositions and arrangements. Interacting with faculty who are also professional writers, arrangers, producers, and conductors, the student will develop techniques and skills that will enhance the creative adaptation of his/her musical projects. Applying the writing and production concepts and techniques learned, the student will complete a portfolio of at least four pieces that will demonstrate an understanding of traditional and contemporary writing and production styles.

The songwriter will develop the skills and knowledge to function as a professional writer, arranger, and producer under a wide variety of conditions and music industry environments.