Online via Zoom!
BNC SongCreation Masterclass
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Dates/Times: April 20 & 21st (12-4:30pm central daily)
Where: Online via Zoom
$299 regular price / $249 early bird by March 20
Every registration includes automatic entry in the raffle to win
a free 30 minute private SongZoom with Beth.
We'll draw the winner during the program - you must be present to win!
Learn more below!
Heads up, Songwriters!
Happy New Year, ya’ll! Join me from anywhere in the world for this live Zoom happening. Sign up by March 20 to get $50 off the regular price.
Pop-up! BNC SongCreation Masterclass (ONLINE via ZOOM)
April 20 & 21: 12-4:30pm central each day.
** All participants are automatically entered to win in a drawing for a free 30 minute private SongZoom with Beth (to be scheduled later at a mutually agreeable time). We'll draw the winner at the end of the program - you must be present to win!
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The BNC SongCreation MasterClass will be a powerful deep dive into creativity. Beth will talk about the full spectrum of the birth of a song, starting with the magic of creative flow, how to find it, feel it, and harness its power in your songwriting. From there, we will move into the analytical realm to identify and establish what could be better, etc.
Step three is learning how to shift gears again, going back to the place of play and exploration in the flow, in order to refill those weaker areas with more of the good stuff so that the final song will be inspired as well as airtight.
You will come away with clarity and new tools in your toolkit for every aspect of the writing process from the first blush to the final tweak. Beth will be using the critiquing of your songs in the class to illustrate how to make every song as great as it can be. Learn the four essential questions to ask every song before you roll them out into the world.
Participating songwriters wanting feedback on their songs, will submit one song with lyric to an email provided after registration.
Not everyone will be guaranteed of a critique depending on the size of the class so Beth will pre-select at least 5 songs from your submissions that highlight the teaching of specific points and ideas. Then Beth will put all remaining submitted songs into her “Feedback Fishbowl" and randomly select as many as she can get to critique!
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Live online curriculum during program hours
The possibility of having your song critiqued during the class
Learning a lot about improving your songs from seeing Beth crack open each song
Live Q & A with Beth via Zoom during the program
Access to program replays for two weeks after program ends
Automatic entry in raffle to WIN a free 30 minute private SongZoom with Beth (you must be present to win)
SAMPLE SCHEDULE
DAY ONE
12:00-1:00pm
Hello and introductions, sharing our creative journeys.
Drifting & Lifting & the Show Up Muscle
Knowing How To Not Know
Growing Creative Capacity
Q & A with Beth
1:00-2:00pm
Song Spelunking 1: Song picks by Beth
2:00-3:30pm
Song Spelunking 2: Song picks by fishbowl
3:30-4:30pm
Wrap up and Q & A
DAY TWO
12:00-1:00pm
Owning Your Spot
The Melody of Words
Flickering Between Craft and Creative Flow
1:00-2:00pm
Song Spelunking 1: Song picks by Beth
2:00-3:30pm
Song Spelunking 2: Song picks by fishbowl
3:30-4:30pm
Pilot Light Maintenance
Building Community
Wrap up and Q & A
Live Drawing for 30 minute private SongZoom with Beth!
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Beth Nielsen Chapman has taught worldwide in many venues, including the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Berklee College of Music. In October 2016, she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriting Hall of Fame. A Nashville-based singer-songwriter, she has written hits for a variety of artists, including Bette Midler, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, the Indigo Girls, and Willie Nelson. The mega-hit single “This Kiss,” sung by Faith Hill, ASCAP’S 1999 Song of the Year, garnered Chapman a Grammy Award nomination.
Chapman’s music has been heard on ER, Dawson's Creek, Providence, and Felicity, and in movie soundtracks, including The Prince of Egypt, Message In A Bottle, The Rookie, Where The Heart Is, and Practical Magic. Her groundbreaking 1997 CD, Sand & Water, written in the wake of her husband’s death in 1994, and Deeper Still, released in 2001 following her journey through breast cancer, have rendered deeply healing songs. In 2010, her Back To Love CD spawned two hits on BBC Radio 2 and she went on two tours in England, culminating in a show featuring her music at the Mermaid Theater in London with BBC’s oldest running live radio show, Friday Night Is Music Night.
Recently Beth’s collaboration with friend Olivia Newton John was included on Olivia – Just The Two of Us – a special collection released to celebrate Olivia’s career. Their song “Stone In My Pocket,” which originally appeared on 2016’s Liv On - Olivia’s album with Beth and Amy Sky - is part of 17-track album celebrating Olivia’s duets.
Beth’s latest album, produced by Ray Kennedy, is called “CrazyTown” and was internationally released September 23rd, 2022 on Cooking Vinyl.
