Overview
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Join professional songwriter Cliff Goldmacher as he explains best practices for songwriting collaboration, from planning the song promotion to keeping the co-write moving forward.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Advantages of co-writing
- Disadvantages of co-writing
- Decide in advance if you're going to bring ideas or start
- Show up on time and ready to work
- Make a plan on how you'll both promote the song
- Discuss the percentages for each writer
- Don't ever criticize a co-writer's suggestion
- Don't insist on one of your ideas if your co-writer isn't into it
- Don't edit too harshly early on in the session
- Don't push too hard to collaborate with a more established/successful songwriter
- Lessons learned from songwriting
- Next steps
