Keyboard Skills for Producers and Songwriters - LEVEL 1 & LEVEL 2 SPRING 2025 TUESDAYS Starting 3/25/25 (Option for L1 on-demand, L2 live!)

$ 350.00

ON-DEMAND: Start right away! Either level or Levels 1-2 combo for reduced tuition.

WINTER 2025: LEVEL 1 section TUESDAY nights starting 3/25/25 (6 wks with full content available weekly, on-demand). Option to take the class asynchronously RIGHT AWAY and send work/questions to your instructor.

LEVEL 2 section TUESDAY nights starting 5/6/25.

OPTION to enroll in both as a continuous 12-week path (6 wks Level 1, 6 wks Level 2) for reduced tuition and keep continuity. Access to both previously released on-demand AND the new live and recorded class to round out your study.

Classes: Classes, CLASSES & LESSONS at THE SONGWRITING SCHOOL, FEATURED CLASSES / NEXT TO START, Online Classes, Production & Recording, Songwriting, Theory & Musicianship

Class Type: Unknown Type

Watch this REVIEW session, free, to see which level might be best for you:

You can bundle Level 1 on-demand (start right away) and take Level 2 live (or on-demand).

If you are a singer, aspiring producer, or guitar player and you want to quickly fill your toolbox, Keyboard Skills for Producer & Songwriters will move you confidently toward realizing the ideas in your head and getting them into your songs and into your DAW.

Instructor Alex Marlowe is a songwriter, producer, keyboardist, and remixer. He has credits on Grammy-Winning and Platinum records, and he was the touring keyboardist for the late soul legend Bobby Womack. He understands exactly what producers and songwriters need to be able to do on a keyboard, and he gets you there--in 4 wks.

Alex also teaches Music Production for Songwriters .

Live and fully interactive over Zoom - and on-demand
The course will include many accompaniment tracks to the exercises in modern styles that students will play along with during the class and can download for practice on their own.
SAMPLE SYLLABUS & FULL COURSE DESCRIPTION FROM THE INSTRUCTOR BELOW

Here's a brief sample and preview:

LEVEL 2 REVIEW SESSION you can watch, FALL 2020:

LEVEL 1 SIMPLE LESSON PREVIEW:

Sample Syllabus:

Keyboard Skills for Producers & Songwriters - Level 2 (please click to view)

Keyboard Skills for Producers & Songwriters - Level 1

Week 1

Music Theory Basics for Practical Use: The Major Scale Formula
The minor Scale Formula
Relative Major and minor
Intervals
The Major Triad
The minor Triad
Diatonic Triads in Major
Progressions with Triads
Keyboard Part Playing 1

Week 2

Chords for Practical Use: The Major Triad
The minor Triad Inversions
Augmented, Diminished and Suspended Triads
Diatonic Triads in Major and minor
More Progressions with Triads
Keyboard Part Playing 2

Weeks 3-4

More Chords for Practical Use:
The Major Seventh Chord
The minor Seventh Chord
Augmented, Diminished and Suspended Sevenths
Diatonic Seventh Chords in Major and minor
Chord Voicings
Progressions with 7ths
Keyboard Part Playing 3
song applications

Weeks 5-6

Chord Progressions for Practical Use: 9th, 11th, and 13th Chords
Common Progressions
Guide Tones
Voice Leading
Transposition
Keyboard Part Playing 4
song applications

In this class we cover practical keyboard skills and ways to apply them in the context of grooves and songs. We’ll study common chord progressions, and use them to create keyboard parts in various styles. We’ll use synth sounds as well as acoustic and electric piano sounds for the class examples, and practice by playing along with beats and baselines.

Even those with no prior knowledge of music theory, or keyboard playing experience will be able to benefit. You’ll come away from the class with a broad range of exercises for developing your skills, and tools for creating keyboard parts for your own songs.