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Composition, Arranging, and Songwriting Music Seminar
What Is The Composition, Arranging, and Songwriting Seminar?
The Composition, Arranging, and Songwriting Seminar is a set of guided activities that enables you to write music. The instruction also applies to songwriting and lyrics. You will emerge from the seminar using time-saving techniques to create your own meaningful musical statements.
Who Should Take This Seminar?
The Composition, Arranging, and Songwriting Seminar is offered for newcomers who want to learn basic skills and for accomplished composers who want to develop their abilities. It is especially suitable for anyone who is concerned about originality, who has experienced writer's block, or who has had trouble finding a balance between inspiration and calculation. Jeffrey's instruction works simultaneously with all skill levels and all styles of music. The age range is teens and adults.
How Will You Benefit?
Many people write music by using unreliable hit-or-miss methods. In the Composition, Arranging, and Songwriting Seminar, you will gain the ability to predict results, decrease your work time, make informed choices, take control over your material, produce the desired expressive effect, use techniques for building form and coherence, mobilize music theory for your own purposes, and find the best use for your musical ideas.
A Message from Jeffrey
"Other people can play the same Chopin waltz that you play or sing the same Gershwin tune. But there is one thing that you can do that nobody else can: write your own music. This could be the most important thing that you do musically. Check out Lesson #3 on the One-Minute Music Lessons page."
World Class Music Instruction
Jeffrey Chappell is a gifted, innovative teacher who is renowned for his ability to connect with every student. His compositions integrate techniques of classical composition with elements of American popular music. His solo piano composition American Sonata won the Keyboard Magazine Soundpage Competition. While composer-in-residence with the Mid-Atlantic Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Chappell was commissioned to write "Shadowdance" for piano and wind ensemble with a grant from the Meet The Composer Foundation. He is also a classical concert pianist, a jazz musician, a recording artist, an improviser for silent films, and an author of articles for music magazines. He is the Director of Jazz Studies at Goucher College in Baltimore and serves on the faculty of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. He studied at the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, and the BMI Musical Theater Workshop.
Sample Seminar Topics
Composition
Arranging
Songwriting