Billy Sprague write with someone from Topeka. spirit. What I love about Songwriting U is their into one genre. I want to help fan the flame for
They can work on a song together. Anytime you ability to honor those writers and say, instead young Christian writers who feel like they might
collaborate there is life given. There is shared of Uber driving you can co-write with this writer want to write Worship music, or are part of a
creative heart and spirit. What really got me from Topeka, and you’ll be paid immediately. new wave, a CCM lane writing honest lyrics.
excited is how SU honors songwriters. Writers So, it is an immediate honoring of songwriters The point is that I want to fan that flame. Let’s
used to be able to get a publishing deal with on our faculty. It is also a mentoring service make sure we are developing something that’s
Sony or twenty other places and you’d get for someone that can’t move to Nashville and going to go beyond location. It’s about all
a stipend to live off while you wrote. If Keith lives in Topeka because they have a family and genres, and supporting people who go, “Man,
Urban signed to cut your song - great, but it needs to support them. It’s a great intersection. I love EDM music”. If you’re an EDM writer, you
would be eighteen months before you’d see
can co-write with our faculty. We are adding
any money coming in. Meanwhile you are [WM] I like how there is a full menu of options
living off that stipend. There used to be 4,500 including a number of online songwriting
different writers in Nashville with publishing sessions,
deals, but today it’s around 350. What has packages,
face-to-face
bundled [WM] I teach my worship and music business
publishing students that they must learn not to simply carry
happened is that the publishers can’t sustain assistance, etc. And so much of today’s music a guitar case, but a briefcase as well, and that
paying stipends just off a streaming scenario. is collaborative in nature, which can be a great it’s easy to become savvy in music business
demo
meetings,
faculty constantly.
recording,
confidence builder to those just starting out. I concerns that were once overwhelming in
When we used to have full album sales that know several of your faculty members and they scope for musicians and songwriters. I can
would sustain all of the songwriters when there are extremely talented and write for multiple point to myself as an example of learning the
was a hit, we don’t have that anymore. As we go music genres. Tell us more about this? hard way. What encouragement would you
into this new world, which we have to embrace,
offer towards this perspective?
then there has to be new creative hearts and [Michael] The point is let’s not get locked
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