Song as a Gift: Songwriting with Emily Sprague (of Florist) (December '24)

Emily Sprague (of Florist)'s songwriting workshop taught in December 2024. By purchasing this past course, you're able to watch Emily's lectures and go about the course at your own pace!

Emily's workshop dives deep in introspection, empathy, and musical experimentation. The four lectures include anecdotes from Emily’s work in Florist and solo projects, song breakdowns, and live demonstrations. Throughout the class, students will develop a deeper understanding of how a single idea, memory, or feeling can blossom into a lasting piece of art. Grounded in the knowledge that each human experience is part of a greater cycle, participants will leave the class carrying new songs, new confidence, and a renewed sense of wonder for music as a potent, living force in everyday life.

Emily says about the class, “As songwriters I do think we have a responsibility to, with humility and helplessness, use this language as an act of empathy and caregiving from the omnipresent altar we choose to stand on. With hard truth or celebration or dancing or tears or something completely strange and unrecognizably new. A song is something to share.”

Emily's class includes four lectures titled:

1. What Are We in Relation to Song?

2. A Song as a Gift

3. Deconstructing Structure & Environmental Music

4. Cycles: The Album as Life Document

This course also includes 3 songwriting prompts based on the lecture content of classes 1-3.

Testimonials from December 2024 Students:

"This was one of the most meaningful, enriching, and impactful musical experiences of a long life full of them.” 

“This class helped unlock me while I'd been having a challenging time feeling creative. The lessons showed me new ways to be creative and gave me a new understanding of how to approach songwriting as a lifelong process. Emily is a great teacher who made this class such a comfortable learning environment.”

“I learned so much. I've been doing music for years and I never thought about the space surrounding what I was doing. This course taught me to prioritize comfort, to be aware of the space around me, and to honor music as a magical journey."

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This archived course includes:

1. Class Video Recordings – Watch all 4 of Emily's lectures and Q&As on her songwriting process.
2. All course materials, including songwriting prompts crafted by Emily.
3. Access to the "community jukebox" – upload your new songs to the jukebox and share the tunes with fellow classmates!

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FAQ:

Q: What musical experience should I have?

A: People across all musical levels will be able to gain something from the course. However, it will be helpful to be comfortable playing a few basic chords on any instrument of your choice.

Q: What if I’ve never written a song before? Can I still participate in this workshop?

A: Yes! As with any new skill, just starting is usually the hardest part. This workshop will provide the structure and accountability we all need to get started and follow through, for beginners and old guard writers alike.

Questions? Email us at hi@schoolofsong.org.