Compose Yourself with James Cornelison

Compose

Yourself

with James Cornelison

Write 10 Songs In 10 Weeks!

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

This LIVE 10-week workshop is designed for songwriters who are looking for:

Course Highlights

This will immerse you in a creative, collaborative experience that inspires your songwriting journey while helping you develop a substantial catalog of original songs:

Extended Projects: Work on pieces
over time and collaborate with classmates.

Class Album: The course ends with
a class album and a listening party.

Songwriting Growth: Build a catalog of original songs and refine your skills.

Extended Projects: Work on pieces over time and collaborate with classmates.

Class Album: The course ends with
a class album and a listening party.

Songwriting Growth: Build a catalog of
original songs and refine your skills.

Workshop Features

Membership in the Sustainable Songwriter Community: As part of your enrollment, you’ll join the Sustainable Songwriter Community at Golden Lotus Studio. Key benefits include:

Access to the Friday Afternoon Songwriting Club

A supportive environment for extended creation with a growth mindset

A private forum for assignments and correspondence

Access to the Friday Afternoon Songwriting Club

A supportive environment for extended
creation with a growth mindset

A private forum for assignments and correspondence

Expert Guidance

In each of the 10 classes, recording artist James Cornelison (known for his work with Lake Street Dive, Vulfpeck, Jon Batiste, Lucius) will guide you through:

Writing your own original
music from scratch

Developing first drafts into
completed songs

Exploring lyrical, melodic,
and instrumental elements

Writing your own original
music from scratch

Developing first drafts into
completed songs

Exploring lyrical, melodic,
and instrumental elements

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.

Our Commitment to You:

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

Support and feedback from a like-minded group facing similar challenges and victories on the same path as you.

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 fosters collaboration, builds trust quickly, and offers a rare sense of belonging and support in the online world.

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:

UDEMY COURSE

$50 - 200

1 – 6 HOURS

$$$ spent to work with…no one.

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COMPOSE YOURSELF

$1400

$769

10 WEEKS

for 10 songs in 10 weeks

BERKLEE ONLINE

$1500

12 WEEKS

$100+++ x 12 weeks…

Price:

A $1400 value, for only $769!

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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.

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.

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. It allowed me to learn “song writing basics”, and encouraged me to continue writing songs after the course ended.