Life as a Songwriter | January 2022
LIFE AS A SONGWRITER is a four week songwriting course led by Danielle Ate the Sandwich. This course will cover creating melodies, lyrics and phrasing, trusting your instincts and honing your editing skills. Each class will include short lectures, with writing prompts and exercises, time for sharing, and talking about your experiences. The goal is to finish a new song, build skills for writing and editing, and establish a routine habit of sitting down to write and think as a songwriter. We will meet virtually each week on Zoom from 7:00pm-8:30pm CST, every Thursday in January 2022. The class is limited to 10 writers. Beginner and intermediate writers are welcome, but proficiency on an instrument of your choice is encouraged. (Those who do not play an instrument can take this class, but there will not be instruction on how to play a musical instrument.) REGISTER HERE
CLASS TOPICS:
Week 1 | January 6th, 7pm-8:30pm CST
Creating Melody & Talking to Your Monster
Week 2 | January 13th, 7pm-8:30pm CST
Lyrical Phrasing & Trusting Your Instinct
Week 3 | January 20th, 7pm-8:30pm CST
Writing Authentic Lyrics & Honing Your Editor
Week 4 | January 27th, 7pm-8:30pm CST
Class Concert & Song Share
WHAT PAST ATTENDEES HAVE TO SAY ABOUT ‘LIFE AS A SONGWRITER’:
“I highly recommend this songwriting class to anyone who wants to write a song! Whether you have been writing songs for years or have never written in your life, you will take something away from this class! Plus you get to hang out with THEE Danielle Ate The Sandwich!! #braggingrights”
“As a new songwriter, Danielle’s class environment felt safe, positive and fun.”
“If you want to learn about songwriting, improve your songwriting, or just give yourself a songwriting shot in the arm, take this class with DATS. You will meet other people who are interested and develop and ongoing group of friends to share ideas with. Sign up today!”
“I have been writing songs for years, but this class gave me a true sense of BEING a songwriter – being & doing, woven together, is amazing, & it shifted something in me. Thank you for that!!”
“I wrote a song, my first completely original song. I deeply appreciated the outreach by the teacher, the encouragement and extra help.”
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Danielle Ate the Sandwich is the stage name of pop-folk songwriter Danielle Anderson. Getting her start in Fort Collins, CO, now based in Kansas City, MO, Danielle has been touring nationally since 2009, after cultivating an online following from her homemade videos on Youtube. Danielle Ate the Sandwich has released seven albums of original music, made appearances internationally, opened for Mumford and Sons, Jake Shimabukuro, Suzanne Vega, Pomplamoose, and wrote the soundtrack to the Emmy nominated HBO documentary, “Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson.” Her newest project is an EP of original songs featured in the documentary “It’s Not a Burden: The Humor and Heartache of Raising Elderly Parents.”
Danielle Ate the Sandwich’s music has been compared to Joni Mitchell, Sara Bareilles, and Ingrid Michaelson. Her songs are lyrically driven, performed on ukulele and guitar, and find inspiration from her curiosity about death, science, religion, family dynamics, and her own emotions and experiences. Danielle Ate the Sandwich plays with the joy and sadness of the human experience, making you laugh one minute and cry the next. Her songs can be thoughtful and serious, but she’s known for her quirky lyrical twists, and for delivering witty and honest stage banter in her live shows.
http://www.danielleatethesandwich.com