Grow your creativity, Meet musicians, Co-write new music
Musicians co-write and record an original piece of music in 3 hours!
It's an experience packed with collaboration, risk taking, rule breaking music making.
Not to mention the exclusive annual party!
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Monday April 21st 6-9pm
Welcome to Mix it Up, Nashville's Co-Write Workshop! Join this fun and interactive workshop where musicians collaborate to write and record a unique piece of music together in 3 hours. The experience is designed for musicians wanting valuable network experiences where creativity and networking can occur simultaneously in a collaborative and highly participatory way. Bring your instruments, ideas, and enthusiasm, and let's make some music with fellow musicians and industry professionals.
Participants in Mix it Up make new professional music relationships, grow as artists and writers, and make a live recording of the completed song! Each co-writer receives an equal songwriting credit split along with fellow participants.
Où est l’eau
Our First Christmas in Nashville
Wonder
Live Until You Die
Recordings will be published once overdub and mixing is completed.
These songs written and recorded by previous Mix it Up groups.
Recording Services
Mix it Up has partnered with Vocal Ink Production, a recording studio with locations in multiple states to make state of the art recording and mixing capability part of the Mix it Up experience.
VIP Owner Tim Campbell and Joe Hamm have collaborated to open a transportable recording studio in Nashville TN, which is used at each Mix it Up event.
Live studio recordings, multitrack recordings, overdubs, and demo recording services are available at a special rate for musicians who have taken part in Mix it Up.
Have a recording you want to make? Work with Joe to make your record and leave your mark! Click to learn more!
Mix it Up Proudly Sponsors:
Mix it Up re-invests back into the Nashville music community through it's support of Music City Movement and Creative Pulse Nashville.
Click to learn more about the great work of these Nashville organizations!
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Partner Organizations
The enthusiastic collaboration and support from our partner organizations appreciated.
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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 is an experience leader and designer of collective music composition workshops.
Joe performs professionally, works as a recording artist, holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies, performed in venues from festivals, fine arts centers, jazz clubs, amphitheaters, rock venues, and punk rock basements. Joe has facilitated workshops and music programming throughout the country for participant musicians including Virginia Symphony, Alexandria Symphony Orchestra programs, Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians, with student-musicians ranging from elementary beginner to university music students as an Adjunct-Professor pursuing liberal arts bachelors degrees with concentrations performance, music education, and creative studies.
Professional working musicians, public school, and El Sistema USA member program students and Teaching Artists have participated in local, regional, and national collaborations. Joe designed the Mix it Up workshop specifically for the professional and working musician community. Participants are guided to write and record an original piece of music. 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 $40 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.