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Film Score Analysis Workshop -- Music as Fear
Bernard Herrmann wrote the Psycho strings, the Vertigo spirals, and the North by Northwest overture. Without his music, my films are half as terrifying. We study how music creates dread, release, and the false sense of safety. Tip: The scariest sound in cinema is silence followed by a single note.
Film Music Composition Workshop -- Scoring Your Own Film
I composed the music for my later films because nobody else could hear what I heard. Indian classical ragas, Western orchestration, and folk melodies -- all serving the image. We study the sitar-and-flute scoring of the Apu Trilogy and learn to write music that enhances without overpowering. Tip: The best film music makes you forget it's there.
Piano Performance Workshop -- ATTACK the Keys
I don't teach you to play pretty. I teach you to play LOUD. Standing up. Kicking the bench. One foot on the keys. The piano is not a delicate instrument -- it's a 900-pound percussion weapon and you need to HIT IT. A-WOP-BOP-A-LOO-BOP!
Electric Blues Guitar Workshop -- Chicago Style
Plug in, turn up, and play the blues. I took the Delta acoustic sound and wired it to an amplifier. The Rolling Stones named themselves after my song. Let me show you why.
Custom Guitar Building Workshop
I'll teach you to build a guitar from scratch. Cigar box, plywood, whatever you've got. Electronics, pickups, wiring. The rectangular guitar I played on stage? Built it in my garage. You can build yours in mine.
Orchestration Workshop -- Scoring for Ballet
Learn to write music that makes bodies move. I'll teach you orchestral color -- how a celesta sounds like falling snow, how a bassoon sounds like a grandfather clock. We score a dance scene from scratch.
Rhythm Workshop -- Complex Time Signatures
Learn to count in 7/8, 5/4, 11/8, and shifting meters. I'll teach you the rhythmic language of The Rite of Spring -- the piece that started a riot. Bring a drum, a table, or just your hands. Rhythm is the most primal element of music.
Big Band Arrangement Workshop
Learn to write for a big band -- fifteen musicians, each with a voice. I'll teach you voicings, sectional writing, and how to make an orchestra swing. The secret: write for people, not instruments.
Vocal Phrasing Workshop -- Singing Behind the Beat
I'll teach you to sing behind the beat -- to take a melody and make it yours by changing the timing, not the notes. We work on breath, emotion, and the courage to be vulnerable in front of strangers. No sheet music. Just feeling.
Gospel Guitar Workshop -- Where Rock Was Born
I'll teach you the gospel guitar techniques that became rock and roll. Palm muting, string bending, distortion with feel. Church music with fire. Bring your guitar and your voice.
Scat Singing Workshop -- Voice as Instrument
Learn to improvise with your voice using syllables, rhythms, and melodic invention. No words. Just sound. I'll teach you the vocabulary of scat -- the bops, the doos, the ba-da-ba-das -- and then we throw the vocabulary away and you find your own.
Songwriting Workshop -- Words First, Music Second
I write the words first. Always. The melody finds its way to the words. We'll work on imagery, metaphor, and the art of saying something so specific it becomes universal. Bring a notebook. Leave your guitar at home for the first session.
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