Grow your creativity, Meet musicians, Make new sounds
Welcome to Mix it Up: The Collective Music Composition Workshop! Join us for a fun and interactive workshop where you can collaborate with fellow musicians to create a unique piece of music together. This workshop is perfect for musicians wanting to network and grow your creativity in a collaborative and fun way. Bring your instruments, ideas, and enthusiasm, and let's make some music! We welcome you to join this opportunity to connect with fellow musicians and industry professionals.
Musicians team up for a 3-hour workshop to co-write a completed piece of music.It's an experience packed with collaboration, peer learning, and a high standard of music-making.
Participants make new professional music relationships, grow as artists and writers, and walk away a demo recording of the completed song! If published, each co-writer will receive an equal songwriting credit split along with fellow participants. See you there!
Partner Organizations
The enthusiastic collaboration of our partner organizations is much appreciated. Thank you!
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Tell me more!
Mix it Up Workshop is held at a professional music rehearsal studio in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood of Nashville, and facilitated and led by Joe Hamm.
Joe has years of experience leading collective music composition workshops throughout the country for participant musicians including Virginia Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians, students ranging from elementary to university music students, professional working musicians, public school and El Sistema USA member program students and Teaching Artists.
This workshop is specifically designed for the professional and working musician community. Participants will be guided to identify a collective theme and mood, write lyrics, create instrumental parts, and choose an arrangement. Genre-mixing, standard-breaking and bending, expression, risk taking, and enthusiastic encouragement are the ingredients, and growing and honing critical professional music skills the recipe.
FAQ
When is the next one?
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Workshop dates are scheduled regularly, and as registration will be available as advertised.
Who can participate?
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Instrumentalists, songwriters, lyricists, vocalists, producers are among those that participate. You get the idea! If you love collaborating and making new music, this is for you.
How much does it cost?
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Registration amount is $60 per participant for the workshop. Lookout for discount codes too!
What does the money pay for?
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Registration fees cover costs for facilitation, rehearsal sapce, and is re-invested in local music business organizations.
I can't make this one, when will the next one be?
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Workshops are scheduled based on professional rehearsal space availability.
Got more questions?
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Click to schedule a phone call to ask away. Questions are great!
Standards & Values
Collaborative experiences are inclusive, warm, welcoming spaces. Here's what you can expext:
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Professional and working musicians deserve access to high quality, intensive, enriching, and experiential music workshops.
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Musicians of all ages, skill levels, and instruments are capable of collaborative composition, and welcome to participate.
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Professional Musicians and Creative Leaders are both participants and contributors to the creative process.
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Social relevance and lived experience are essential components of the composition content.
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Musical quality is and passionate expression are critical to communicating a musical message.
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The value of the collective composition experience exists in the process, the new relationships, and the musical outcome.
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The composition process encourages diversity of ideas and genres, and is inclusive of ideas, colors, creeds, sexual orientations, and life experience backgrounds.