Writing and Composition Workshop
Event Details
It's coming to Pardes Hanna! 🥁😍🌞
12-session songwriting workshop with Shai Ben Tzur
How fun! 🎻
It's been about six months since I took this life-changing course/workshop in Tel Aviv, and since then I've had the idea to bring Shai to Pardes Hanna and start a creative group here.
I am very experienced with writing and composing workshops and courses. I have already tried to learn this unteachable subject from many talented teachers.
When I signed up for the workshop with Shai, I was skeptical. I already knew that this is a subject that cannot really be taught and that it is very difficult to maintain the fire of creation in a group that comes on a fixed day and time of the week.
When I decided to register, I said to myself - if I come out of this whole workshop with one new song that I love, it will be a huge thing and worth registering even for that one song.
In the workshop I discovered Shai, what an amazing, humble and curious teacher, he really came to explore the creation with us, and dedicates his whole soul to the class and the students. I was impressed and inspired by the content that Shai brought. And the insights he gathered along the way about creation, about the muse, inspiration, and all the related crafts, which he casually scattered throughout the course, were so meaningful and even revolutionary for me.
I received new tools that really really helped me approach creation from a new place :)
In class, you not only hear works that the participants wrote, but also think and research together what can help this song to rise, to interest, to touch..
I left the workshop with 6 (!!!) new songs that I really love! Within three months. For me it's an indescribable miracle :) :)
And it's priceless.
So I want more of that
I want to create a quality group with beautiful and beating hearts
Come be a part! :)
🙂 12 meetings
🪇 3 hours each meeting
🙂 Sundays
(Currently there are two options - either 11:00-14:00........or 17:00 to 20:00.... Whoever is interested in registering should say which of the options is preferable for them and according to the majority we will choose)
🪇 Starting on 6.4.25
🙂
We are still looking for a place, if someone from Pardes Hanna wants to host the workshop in their home in exchange for free participation - this is an option
🪇 The group will be between 8 and 12 participants
If you are interested, hurry up and grab a place 🙂
You are also welcome to be interested and send this message to suitable friends 🙃
Talk to me and feel free to ask whatever you want 🙂
Itamar Zakai - 0528738639
Here's what Shai wrote about the workshop:
Mood - Creating Inspiration
A process course for writing songs
The course focuses on actions that create external stimuli, which can arouse in us contemplation and free expression.
Over the years, I understand more than ever that alongside sharpening artistic skills, there is a critical importance in developing active ways to find inspiration.
The course is an artistic journey in which each participant will be asked to write and compose in different techniques.
We will create a circle of creators who go through a process together - we will share, listen, and listen to the songs that will be created during the course, in order to sharpen points in the work, learn, and get inspiration for our personal creations.
What will we learn in the meetings?
• Introduction to different structures for writing.
• Identifying the elements that lead a song: melody, lyrics, groove, arrangement and production.
• Inspiration vs. craft - how do you balance between a moment of creative outburst and a structured work process?
• How do we deal with barriers in creation? We will examine common inhibitions and find solutions for them.
• And above all - we will enter a time-focused process, in which we can devote ourselves to creating a personal and new body of work.
I will share practices that have shaped my path as a creator, we will explore, experiment and write from different angles - all this in order to make present a creative mood from which the creative process stems.
Course details:
• Number of meetings: 12
• Location: Pardes Hanna
• Duration of each meeting: 3 hours (total 36 hours)
• Cost: NIS 250 per meeting (total NIS 3,000)
• Payment option: up to 3 installments
Course dates – Sundays:
April: 6, 20, 27
May: 4, 11, 18, 25
June: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
