Songwriting Classes

Uplevel your musical skills (or jumpstart them!) with our songwriting classes!

Led by up-and-coming singer-songwriter Leila Dean, this series of classes will focus on lyric writing, music theory, and melodic writing.

Courses

Lyric Writing

Introduction to song structures, rhyming, subject brainstorming, hooks & imagery.

Currently offered for adults as a

4-week course

Music Theory

Rhythm basics, basic scales, dynamics, intervals, chords, circle of fifths, chord progressions, and how to apply all to a song.
4 week course in February 2026

Melodic Writing

Melody basics, call-and-response, matching words to melody, contour, motifs and repetition, phrase-building, relation of melody to emotion, harmony & counter-melodies

Will be offered in 2026

Lyric-Writing Class

Our lyric writing class will be offered on Tuesdays in January . We will have one class for adults from 7:30-8:30pm.

If you have a teen who is interested, please email us!

The cost is $60 per student for a four week course.

Not Quite Ready to Sign Up? Email us with your questions!

Music Theory for Songwriting

This class for adults builds on the Lyric-Writing class. We will focus specifically on music theory for songwriting, especially chord patterns.

This 4 week class will meet on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:15 February 2026.

The cost will be $60 for all four weeks.

Not Quite Ready to Sign Up? Email us with your questions!

Leila Dean

Leila began her journey with music through piano, singing, and songwriting. She has always pursued music as a way of self-expression and as a means to share her love of music with the world.