Jetty Road

Have you ever wanted to write your own song? - Here's your chance to do just that with experienced and successful song writers working alongside you.We are taking bookings for our 2018 beginners song writing workshop retreat at the Cheeky Fox Retreat in Kinglake Sept 14 -16. For all the details visit www.crestwayproductions.com/beginners-song-writing-workshop or call 0416 075 638 or email info@carter-carter.com . Limited to 12 residential places - already half sold.It's perfect for those who have never written a song or who can start but never finish a song or who have written lots of songs but are never happy with them or who just want to improve their song writing skills.David and Merelyn (Carter & Carter) together with Golden Guitar winning song writers Jetty Road and Luke Austen will deliver workshops and also focus one on one with each participant to help demystifying the songwriting process and open the floodgates to the song writer in you - all this in positive and encouraging environment at the gorgeous Cheeky Fox Retreat in Kinglake.Some of the topics that will be covered are:* How To Start - creative ways to start the song writing process.* Effective Brainstorming - ways to get into a creative space and overcome the doubts.* Rhyming - when to, when not to, simple rhymes, complex rhymes, how to.* Song Structure - understanding the structure of a song and how to put it together and pull it apart.* Melody - how to come up with and interesting melody and/or how to do the melody when you don't play an instrument.* Instrumental And Lyric Hooks - understand the song elements that make a song stick in peoples heads.* Simple Charts - how to write simple charts and keep records of songs.* The Rewrite - how to take a song from finished to amazing* Overcoming Writing Blocks - Understanding why we get stuck and processes to overcome the frustration.* Co-Writing - an amazing networking experienceYou don't have to play an instrument, you don't have to sing you just have to have a story to tell. Now is the time to start writing your song.For more advanced writers there is also a medium to advanced targeted song writers workshop running from Nov 2- 4 at the same venue. Check out all the details at www.crestwayproductions.com/targeted-song-writing-workshop