Summer Composing Plunge
Summer Composing Plunge
June 17th-21st
Monday - Friday, 12-1pm ET on Google meet
The Summer Composing Plunge is a transformative 5-day virtual experience designed to give you permission, accountability, and momentum towards achieving your composing goals. Whether you have dabbled in composing or arranging or have never known where to start, this program is for YOU.
What to Expect:
Dates: June 17-21, Monday–Friday
Time: 12-1pm Eastern Time
Location: Google Meet
During our time together, we will go on a journey to dismantle creativity-inhibiting myths, build creative habits that will serve you in any season of life, and discover just how much fun writing music can be. You’ll also walk away with a completed mini-etude composed by you!
Here is the format for each day:
Day 1: Facing the Big, Blank Page
Dismantling creativity myths, discovering composers’ tools, and specific goal-setting
Day 2: Generating Ideas
Why Your Brain is more creative than you thought
Day 3: Ordering your Ideas
How to find and implement a structure that serves your unique ideas
Day 4: Evaluating your Ideas
Training your Inner Guard Dog to keep the bad out and the good in
Day 5: Cultivating a Sustainable Creative Practice
How to continue swimming in a way that serves your unique musical life
What’s the Investment?
5hrs of composition instruction with me would normally cost over $300, but I am offering this inaugural program for just $47.
You’ll get:
5hrs of instruction that will help you experience the Freedom of Finally Starting
Handouts, notes, and visual aides from all presentations
BUILT-IN COMPOSING TIME so that you can make REAL PROGRESS, build LASTING HABITS, and show yourself just how FUN and FREEING composing can be!
Access to an exclusive social media community of people JUST LIKE YOU in their current creative journey: to motivate, inspire, and encourage you along the way!
Don't miss this opportunity to jump into your most creatively fulfilling summer yet. Secure your spot today!
FAQ’S
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Yes! The Summer Composing Plunge is specifically designed for early career and professional musicians who have always wanted to try composing, but have never seemed to find the right circumstances to pull it off. Ideal candidates are comfortable reading and playing music, willing to try new things, and excited to finally invest in their creative side!
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That’s wonderful! The Summer Composing Plunge will be of help to you if your composing process has felt hampered by doubts, anxiety, or other mental roadblocks. It is specifically designed to give you freedom in your creative process!
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Each day, we will tackle mindset mountains, acquire new tools for your creative toolbox, and discuss our challenges. But perhaps MOST valuably, you will have GUARANTEED composing time via mini-composing challenges. These challenges are designed to make composing feel achievable, fun, and rewarding. People who invest in the Summer Composing Plunge are ready to get rid of overwhelm for good.
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Nope! Music Theory is a lens of analyzing music that aims to find patterns in EXISTING pieces of music. The skillset you will gain from this week of instruction will help you to create NEW pieces of music. While we will talk about how to glean gold nuggets from your favorite works, the strategies I will teach around composition will be broad enough to apply to your unique musical personality.
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All program participants will receive video replays after each day of instruction, as well as any visual aides and resources.
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Simply click the “SIGN ME UP!” button above, click on your cart, and check out. Then you’re all set! You will receive a confirmation email for your purchase, and then an email before our first meeting that will contain our meeting link.