I began Cari Cole’s Signature Songwriting Course during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. At the time, I enrolled with what was called a Viewer Seat, which allowed me to observe the songwriting process but did not include direct feedback or participation with Cari herself. Unlike some of the other songwriting courses I had taken, I…
In 2021, around the time I was finishing some of the first Studio.com courses I had taken, I joined Song Chasers, an online songwriting and music community created by Full Circle Music in Nashville, Tennessee. Song Chasers was founded and led by Seth Mosley, a Grammy-winning songwriter and music producer who also serves as the…
My MasterClass Experience On May 7, 2021, while New York City was still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, I enrolled in MasterClass for a one-year membership. With so much of life still disrupted at the time, I spent a significant amount of that period exploring the many courses available on the platform. I…
Around 2015, I took Pat Pattison’s Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics, a songwriting course that completely changed the way I thought about writing lyrics. Pat Pattison is a professor, songwriter, author, and songwriting educator best known for his work at Berklee College of Music, where he taught songwriting and lyric writing. His approach goes well beyond…
My education through Monthly, now known as Studio, became an important part of how I approached songwriting and music production. The courses were not simply about learning songwriting techniques or production techniques separately. A major part of the experience was learning how to write and produce a song at the same time, developing the composition…
