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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 designed for musicians wanting valuable network experiences and to grow creativity in a collaborative and highly participatory way. Bring your instruments, ideas, and enthusiasm, and let's make some music! We welcome you to join to connect with fellow musicians and industry professionals.
Musicians team up for a 3-hour workshop to co-write and record a completed piece of music. It's an experience packed with collaboration, peer learning, and a high standard of music-making.
Participants will make new professional music relationships, grow as artists and writers, and make a live recording of the completed song! If published, each co-writer will receive an equal songwriting credit split along with fellow participants. See you there!
Gabe
“This experience grappled with everything that makes writing music fun: dissecting fresh chord structures, collective lyrical brainstorming, and recording our progress. Everyone was interested and equally involved, and it makes me super excited to see where we go from here!"
Luke
“Keep an open mind and look for different types of ways the experience can benefit you, whether that be musicianship, songwriting, production elements, collaboration or something else."
Angie
“I loved it! Joe is a great facilitator and I felt comfortable learning in a group setting when I otherwise have been more timid/quiet in songwriting situations."
Vince
“If you want to have an opportunity to network with a bunch of musicians simultaneously and see what their skills are on the spot, there is no better place than mix it up. You will meet musicians that play various instruments, writers, people with production and engineering experience. It is like all your musical connection needs in one session. By the end of the session you will know at least one person that is a key connection to have in your music journey."
Partner Organizations
The enthusiastic collaboration of our partner organizations and sponsors is much appreciated.
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Tell me more!
Mix it Up Workshop is held at a professional music rehearsal studios in Nashville. The music is facilitated and produced by Joe Hamm. A Nashville based drummer and producer, Joe has years of experience designing and leading collective music composition workshops throughout the country for participant musicians including Virginia Symphony, Alexandria Symphony Orchestra programs, Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians, students ranging from elementary beginner to university music students pursuing performance and liberal arts degrees. Professional working musicians, public school and El Sistema USA member program students and Teaching Artists have also participated. 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 $79 USD per participant for the workshop. Follow partner organizations on Instagram for promo codes!
What does the money pay for?
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Registration fees cover costs for facilitation, studio space access, and is re-invested in the local community.
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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Revenue from Mix it Up is re-invested in local businesses, and the local music economy in order to pay for materials, space, and for the time of all involved in making Mix it Up successful.
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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 and 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.
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Discrimination, bigotry, racism, sexism, and homophobia, etc will not be tolerated.