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    • What is Musical Futures?
    • Vision, Aims and Values
    • Background and history
    • What We Do
    • Who We Are
    • Learning models >
      • Informal Learning
      • Non-Formal Teaching
      • Just Play
      • Play Now
      • Everyone Can Play
      • Hear, Listen, Play
      • Find Your voice
    • Research
    • Learning outcomes
    • International Teacher Community >
      • Musical Futures International Champions
      • Musical Futures International Champion schools
      • Online Teacher Networks
  • Training program
    • Workshops in Asia
    • Workshops in Australia
    • Workshops in New Zealand
    • Workshops in Europe
    • Workshops in The Middle East
    • Workshops in the UK
    • Music consultancies
    • Musical Futures for Instrumental Teachers
    • About Our Workshops >
      • Post-workshop Checklist
      • Hosting an International Workshop
      • Hosting a Workshop in Australia
  • Resources
    • Downloads for MF teachers
    • Resource menu >
      • Resources for purchase
      • Online Resources FREE TASTERS
      • Other free Musical Futures resources >
        • Key Cards
        • Free Guide to Songwriting
        • Free Guide to Minimalism
        • Free Guide to Collaborative Songwriting in Soundtrap
        • Free Resource for Planning a Music Curriculum
    • Musical Futures FREE teacher resource pack
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SONGWRITING

Songwriting can be an excellent way of enabling students to express themselves about topics that are important to them, and in musical styles and genres with which they are familiar. The Musical Futures International resources suggest some processes, techniques and ideas for encouraging students to write their own songs, without suggesting actual musical or lyrical content – which should come from the students themselves.

All songwriters, whether individuals or groups, write best in their own way, in the order which suits them and their songs, and very often dealing with more than one aspect of the writing at a time – for example, coming up with words and music together. Furthermore, they may well write different songs in different ways. So there is no one way to teach songwriting.

Consequently, there is no set way to approach the resources. Rather we have suggested a skeleton structure for how you might incorporate this guidance into a six-week project.  With this comes a series of additional resources and materials including audio tracks and multimedia content along with student and teacher guides.    The resource can also be used in  much less formal way, to support students working on composing/ songwriting using informal learning approaches. 
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