Did the 40min Songwriting Challenge with my students at @jazz.osnabrueck this week. Kinda love what we came up with... 🎶🎤♥️

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🎶 Weekly challenge time: Write your PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK! 🎬

Whether it's a life-defining anthem, day-in-the-life “montage” music, or a moment's vibe, capture a part of you in song. 🌟

Think "Tapestry" (Carole King) or "Life is a Highway" (Tom Cochrane).

What's your theme song? 🎧

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🚀 Today wraps up the 3rd week of FAWM!

As we approach week 4, remember to keep writing, keep sharing, and never underestimate the power of collaboration! Let’s keep inspiring each other to make music, shall we? 🎶💪

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🎶 Weekly songwriting challenge: PUBLIC DOMAIN! 🚨

Incorporate something from the PUBLIC DOMAIN into a new song. Borrow a melody, twist a lyric, or flip a folk tune on its head.

Examples:
💡 ‘Greensleeves’ as a metal anthem.
💡 ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ as an existential crisis.
💡 ‘Scarborough Fair’ as a diss track.

What's your take? Post it to FAWM.ORG!

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🎸 It's National Guitar Day! 🎸

Your guitar is waiting patiently while you doomscroll... so stop pretending you're busy and pick it up! Write a song. Strum some chords. Pen some lyrics. It doesn't have to be a hit, but you might surprise yourself! 🤘

Who knows what could happen with a riff and some inspiration. Or just spend the next 2 hours tuning. Your call. 😏

FAWM ON, FRIENDS!

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🎶✨ Weekly challenge time: Try writing a song with MORSE CODE! 📡

Think "YYZ" (Rush) with its airport-code rhythm, or Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 intro (code for "V").💡

Encode a message with rhythm (musical cryptogram anyone?) or use it as a hidden texture like "Planet Claire" (B-52s) or "Landing of the Daleks" (The Earthlings).

Bonus points for hidden messages! 😏

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"It’s called thematic consistency, okay? (Also, I'm out of ideas.)"

February Album Writing Month now a week underway...

How's everybody doing? Got any weekend plans?

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have you ever written a PALINDROME song?

try reflecting letters ("if i dad a hi-fi" by william bottin) or whole words (“i palindrome i” by TMBG). perhaps invent a palindrome band name and make a track for it!

or use a musical palindrome, like a rhythm/melody/progression that’s the same forward and backward.

bonus points for multiple types of palindromes!

when you're done, post it to fawm.org 👈

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are you a member of the FAWM Ukulele Club? well "FUC" around and find out...

who's writing a song on uke today?

share it at fawm.org 👈

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#fuc #ukulele #worldplayyourukuleleday

songwriters. it's time to drink 3 cups of coffee, pick up an instrument, put on your songwriting hoodie, and stare at a blank page until the songs start flowing.

it's time to fawm.

👉 fawm.org

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#songsinprogress