$79.99 USD

Songwriting Online Course: The Worship Writers´ Guide

In this 12 week course Dan McCollam delves deep into the art and technique of worship songwriting.

Learn the key principles in songwriting. Develop and learn how to improve your lyrical content. Understand the building blocks for great songs - song sections. Discover your area of influence and the intentionality in songwriting.

This course includes: 12 lessons of audio teachings, 2 ebooks: "Worship Writers Guide" & "Finding Your Song", weekly activations & assignments

You will learn how to:

Study and deconstruct popular worship songs
Identify, locate and write a song hook
How to create memorable melodies, musical motifs, prosody, sing ability, and musical contrasts
Craft your ideas into a song hook
Study alliteration, contrast, slant rhyme as the four devices for writing
Learn the key principles in writing a great chorus
Improve your lyrical content;
Understand the building blocks for great songs - song sections (Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Pre Chorus etc)
Use different 'list techniques' for songwriting
Co-Writing and Re-Writing

Dan McCollam is the founding director of Sounds of the Nations, a mission organisation training thousands around the world to write and record praise and worship songs in their own culture, language, and ethnic sound. As a dynamic itinerant minister, Dan loves partnering with leaders, trainers, and local churches in the areas of worship, the prophetic, leadership structures and strategies, embracing the glories of the cross, and unlocking dreams of the heart. He serves on the faculty of Bethel School of Supernatural Worship, WorshipU.com, Bethel School of the Prophets, and is a cofounder of Prophetic Company training others in the prophetic ministry. Dan and his wife Regina are based out of Austin, TX, USA.