Compose Yourself 11 – golden lotus studio

COMPOSE YOURSELF, SPECIAL EDITION:

Write 10 Songs in 10 Weeks!

A 10-week, live, intensive workshop for songwriters and composers of any level.

Compose Yourself : 10 Mondays, October 7th - December 9th, 2024

8:30 PM - 9:45 PM EST on Zoom for ten sessions

Welcome to COMPOSE YOURSELF

This LIVE 10-week workshop is designed for songwriters who are looking for some structure, accountability, individual mentorship, and a small group of like-minded musical peers to work alongside. In each of the 10 classes, recording artist James Cornelison (Lake Street Dive, Vulfpeck, Jon Batiste, Lucius) will guide you through writing your own original music from scratch, and help you further develop those first drafts into completed songs. With a focus on lyrical, melodic, and instrumental exploration, the techniques in the Compose Yourself Workshop are tailored to build on one another as the weeks progress and as you compile a new collection of your own songs. You’ll have the opportunity to approach songwriting from various angles, including co-writing and collaboration, and you’ll receive individual feedback on your creations from your instructor and your cohort each week.

an invitation from your instructor

Enrollment in Compose Yourself also includes enrollment, during the 10 weeks, in the Sustainable Songwriter Community at golden lotus studio with all the benefits therein, notably the Friday Afternoon Songwriting Club. Compose Yourself harbors an environment for extended creation with a growth mindset, using each week’s progress as a springboard into the next. In addition to working on brand new pieces each week, you’ll also work on pieces over the course of several weeks, and will be passing work along to other classmates for some long-distance collaboration! The cohort and administrators have access to a private forum where assignments and correspondence will occur during the 10 weeks. Th 10-weeks will also culminate with a collective class album and listening party. If you’re wanting to take your songwriting more seriously and build a catalog of original songs, this Compose Yourself Workshop is a great first step. We’re cultivating loads of inspiration and motivation and can’t wait to send it your way!

Meet Your Instructor:

hi, i’m james

James Cornelison is a musician and singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. His musical path has included growing up in an opera-singing household, a tenure in Chicago’s blues clubs, a jazz and contemplative studies degree from Michigan, moving to LA, session work for film scores, producing, mixing, teaching, multi-instrumenticizing, endlessly songwriting for himself and with others, run-on sentences, and many tours around the world accompanying artists including Theo Katzman, Joey Dosik, Jon Batiste, and since 2021 Lake Street Dive. When the call to provide a bio arises, he can only ever bring himself to write a new one.

What you get:

10 live zoom calls with your cohort that are recorded so you can go back and watch them again, if desired

Instruction, guidance, motivation, and exercises that will allow you to finally finish several of your songs by the end of the course

The support and feedback of a like-minded group of individuals who are on the path with you and who have many of the same challenges and victories that you do

Individual attention and support from a professional songwriting instructor

Plus, the cohort will produce a class album by the end of the course, complete with a celebratory online listening party!

Free access to the Sustainable Songwriter Community and the Friday Afternoon Songwriting Club (FASC)

Instruction in the contemplative tradition that honors a wholistic approach to art

A joyful, unique approach that invites collaboration, builds trust quickly and gives you a feeling of belonging and support that is quite unique in the online universe

Loads of tips, tricks, and techniques that you can use again and again for the rest of your songwriting career

Access to a private online forum to ask questions, post assignments and connect with your community

Compare Pricing:

$ 50-200 $$$ spent to work with...no one.

Pre-recorded classes
No interaction or feedback
No incentive to watch the videos or do the assignments
No individualized instruction

TOO BIG, TOO MUCH $$$

$ 1500 $100+++ x 12 weeks...

Prohibitively expensive
Large, impersonal institution
You're a small fish in a big ocean. Don't let your music get lost.

TOO BIG, TOO MUCH $$$

$1400

$ 769

for 10 songs in 10 weeks

Includes all the benefits of the others, plus:
Affordable
A proven curriculum and structure
Unparalleled individual support on your journey by the instructor and a close-knit community
Work and attend class from the comfort of your home!

BEST OFFER

“The class was ideal for me. It presented a variety of useful techniques that help a songwriter, even someone who has never written a sing before, to produce interesting and effective first versions of songs. The course allowed me to learn “song writing basics”, and encouraged me (that is, gave me courage) to continue writing songs after the course ended.”

– Keith W.

“Golden Lotus Studio is a jewel, a great big YES. A nourishing, vibrant incubator for growing as a creative musician, breaking through old rules, hearing the songs inside and expressing them in new ways, and having fun doing this with other like-minded musicians from all over. Highly recommended.“

– Rob R.

“As a total beginner, this class blew my mind because I didn’t think I could write a song and I wrote several. It was so fun to follow his exercises and within minutes have super fun lyrics. It was great to be in an environment with all levels of musicians and be a part of a community of music makers. “

– Macy M.

“I took [the] online workshop this winter and it was one of the most profoundly creatively satisfying experiences I’ve had. [They] foster a very positive and supportive atmosphere.”

– Mark C.