August 28, 2022

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, August 28 at 2 p.m.

Carl will be Coaching.

I. Songs: Writing from the Heart.

Telling the story/song through emotions.

What inspired the song ? What does it feel like?

Where are the emotions?

Just The PROSODY?

A. Father and Sun Yusef/ Cat Stevens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6zaCV4niKk

B. Romeo and Juliet Mark Knopfler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_HTGdLXL4&list=RD2ojU2T_U7Bk&index=4

C. Lodi. Jeffrey Foucault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkl5otIN9OU

II. Verses how many is too many? how many is not enough?

III. Playing playing playing songs.

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!

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Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684

Passcode: 939440

No session next week! SSV salutes the workers of the world!

August 5, 2022

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, August 7 at 2 p.m.

Carl will be Coaching.

Let’s Talk Country

Have you written a country song?( or religious). Bring your country songs you have written or you just love to play. Why? What?

“ In country music certain themes keep reoccurring. These themes must be treated unpretentiously and honestly. Your job as a country writer will be to dramatize blue-collar problems in a vividly down to earth way, rather than romanticize and falsify them.” Country music is simple. They are based in reality. Follows a Rhyme pattern.

Book: Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn,

If They Ask You, You Can Write a Song 1979.

Here are some classic country songs:

1.Coal Miners Daughter- Lorretta Lynn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8lchkhrxcE

2. Love Hurts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUr9X3mic_U

3. King of the Road- Roger Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUr9X3mic_U

4. Your Cheatin Heart - Hank Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tiGG45ge9g

5. I saw the Light- Hank Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtolv9kM1qk

Some Country Prompts:

a. The Daily Grind

b. The water is gone

c. Seven days a week

d. Every night alone

e. Dogs never lie

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!

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Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684

Passcode: 939440

Bill Valenti will be Coaching next week!

July 30, 2022

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, July 31 at 2 p.m.

Chris will be Coaching, with Ed Hosting.

Lately, as part of my folklore studies, I have become fascinated by storytellers and their art. Storytelling blends tradition and improvisation in interesting proportions. I like to think of it as long-form songwriting, but on the fly.

Here are some examples I've watched lately:

Donald Davis

Sheila Arnold (to skip the introduction, go to 1:37)

These are long performances. You'll get the idea pretty quickly.

On Sunday, I will tell a story, The Traveler, that is about ten minutes long. We'll talk a little about storytelling and how it relates to songwriting and performance, and give everyone who's willing a chance to tell a story. The key thing is that it must not be written down, even as notes or an outline.

And we'll wrap up with our usual song circle. Needless to say, story songs a plus!



Here's how to get to the workshop:

Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!

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Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684

Passcode: 939440

TBD will be Coaching next week.

July 8, 2022

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, July 10 at 2 p.m.

Sean will be Coaching.

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!

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Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684

Passcode: 939440

Carl will be Coaching next week. Join us!

June 25,2022

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, June 26 at 2 p.m.

Carl will be Coaching

Ed will be hosting locally, with Trish Hosting remotely.

Love songs: Yours or your favorite one

What makes a good one.

Here are two:

John Prine’s “All the Best “

Richard Shindell “The Ballad of Mary Magdalene”

A couple of prompts

“Always forever”

“The world with you”

Here's how to get to the workshop:

In-person:

Artichoke Community Music

2007 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR 97202

Map

Please note our host, Artichoke Community Music's current policy: "We are no longer requiring proof of Covid-19 vaccination and have relaxed to a mask-optional policy for all events, while in the store or the cafe."

Remotely, via Zoom:

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Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684

Passcode: 939440

Next week, July 3, we'll be dark for Independence Day. See you on July 10!

June 18, 2022

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, June 19 at 2 p.m.

Chris will be Coaching.

The holiday has some Hallmark-y stuff attached to it. But we don't need to go there. Bring something--song, story, joke, whatever brings you closer to your old man.

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09

Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684

Passcode: 939440

Carl will be Coaching next week, with Ed Hosting. Be there!

June 11, 2022

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, June 12 at 2 p.m.

Robert will be Coaching and Ed will be Hosting.

It will be a song circle, but I’ll ask everyone to talk in depth about how they came up with the lyrics, even down to line by line. Background behind the lyrics!

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!

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Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684

Passcode: 939440

Chris will be next week. It's Fathers' Day!

June 4, 2022

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, June 5 at 2 p.m.

Sean will be Coaching and Ed will be Hosting.

You're invited to share songs.

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!

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Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684

Passcode: 939440

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