Creative Writing & Songwriting Workshop 1 [This is a 2-Class Block for Ages 8-10]
Every Tuesday from February 4th - May 26th in Orangevale, CA
9:30 am - 12:40 pm
* 16 Classes Total -- not counting Spring Break
Overview: Mr. Hammond is a professional musician who has been writing instrumental and lyrical songs for over 30 years. He has been a recording artist, producer, and arranger in Austin, TX and is currently teaching private lessons for piano, guitar, drumming, voice, and songwriting. Children are natural-born songwriters. Most children, before they are "cursed" with the crippling inhibitions that can come with an evolving self-consciousness, compose numerous songs spontaneously. There are studies that show composing spontaneous songs help toddlers and young children to deepen their facility with spoken language. Unfortunately, most of us lose this proclivity to break out into song. Thankfully there is hope!
Mr. Hammond has designed this course as a once-a-week version of his popular and intense 1-week-long Summer Songwriting Bootcamps. Within the same amount of teaching time -- 24 hours of instruction -- he will teach your child to take the seed of a song idea from its very inception to a polished song at the end of the course. We will celebrate the entire process with a live performance for the families on the final week of May.
For the Creative Writing portion of this weekly 2-class workshop, we will focus on poetry and the writing of lyrics. Mr. Hammond has been a professional writer and editor since the early 90s and a writing teacher since 2002. His specialities are short fiction, poetry, songwriting, as well as creative non-fiction in the area of travel, culture, philosophy, and the outdoors. He strongly believes that each human being is hardwired to be a storyteller. Mr. Hammond teaches a naturalistic mode of writing where he shows students how to have a dialogue with the words they write on their paper or type on their keyboards and how to maintain a state of flow where the "inner critic" is shut off and the creative mind and heart are allowed to express themselves freely. He has been very successful in taking students who struggled with their writing, or had convinced themselves that they "hate" the act of writing and has helped them to fall in love with the storytelling aspect of writing.
These 2 classes have been designed to have a synergistic effect on the student's ability to work with words and the sounds and rhythms of music.
Cost for this 2-course workshop: $165/month ($660 total for 16 Weeks)
For more information, please email mateohammond@gmail.com
Creative Writing & Songwriting Workshop II (A 2-Class Block for Ages 11-14)
Every Thursday February 6th - May 28th, 2020 in Orangevale, CA
9:30 am - 12:40 pm
* 16 Classes Total -- not counting Spring Break (April 6-12)
Overview: Mr. Hammond is a professional musician who has been writing instrumental and lyrical songs for over 30 years. He has been a recording artist, producer, and arranger in Austin, TX and is currently teaching private lessons for piano, guitar, drumming, voice, and songwriting. Children are natural-born songwriters. Most children, before they are "cursed" with the crippling inhibitions that can come with an evolving self-consciousness, compose numerous songs spontaneously. There are studies that show composing spontaneous songs help toddlers and young children to deepen their facility with spoken language. Unfortunately, most of us lose this proclivity to break out into song. Thankfully there is hope!
Mr. Hammond has designed this course as a once-a-week version of his popular and intense 1-week-long Summer Songwriting Bootcamps. Within the same amount of teaching time -- 24 hours of instruction -- he will teach your child to take the seed of a song idea from its very inception to a polished song at the end of the course. We will celebrate the entire process with a live performance for the families on the final week of May.
For the Creative Writing portion of this weekly 2-class workshop, we will focus on poetry and the writing of lyrics. Mr. Hammond has been a professional writer and editor since the early 90s and a writing teacher since 2002. His specialities are short fiction, poetry, songwriting, as well as creative non-fiction in the area of travel, culture, philosophy, and the outdoors. He strongly believes that each human being is hardwired to be a storyteller. Mr. Hammond teaches a naturalistic mode of writing where he shows students how to have a dialogue with the words they write on their paper or type on their keyboards and how to maintain a state of flow where the "inner critic" is shut off and the creative mind and heart are allowed to express themselves freely. He has been very successful in taking students who struggled with their writing, or had convinced themselves that they "hate" the act of writing and has helped them to fall in love with the storytelling aspect of writing.
These 2 classes have been designed to have a synergistic effect on the student's ability to work with words and the sounds and rhythms of music.
Cost for this 2-course workshop: $165/month ($660 total for 16 Weeks)
For more information, please email mateohammond@gmail.com