35 online Songwriting tutors near Shelbyville, TN

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$25

1 lesson

60 mins each

Benjamin Pranger
Nashville, Tennessee

Creative Songwriting Screenwriter & Guitar-playing Pianist with The Muse on stand-by

A graduate of Johns Hopkins University's prestigious Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Program in Film and Media Studies, I taught myself to write songs, play guitar and piano while earning a degree focused in screenwriting and other forms of creative writing. In the ensuing twenty years I have written hundreds of songs on my own and collaborated on hundreds more, many published and released on various independent labels, along with myriad experiences in screenwriting, poetry, prose, direction, videography, musical performance, production and studio session work. I now teach guitar, piano and songwriting at a music company in Nashville and am developing my own songwriting and production business called SongCycle. Current freelance projects include a book-to-film screenplay adaptation for a noted Atlanta production company and numerous musical releases. My extensive experience includes charting albums of my own composition, a produced screenplay, a Film Composer credit, videography work with Lucinda Williams, Brandi Carlile, Steve Earle, and much more. Above all, songwriting informs my overall aesthetic sensibility. I can provide practical tips and tricks on how to 'invoke the muse' and foster new, simple song ideas from scratch, how to develop existing lyrics, chord progressions and melodies into finished songs, or I can be the tutoring collaborator with a lyricist who doesn't play or a player who doesn't write lyrics. I can also offer an introduction and guidance in music production in order to record and trade demos of newly written songs!

$25

1 lesson

60 mins each