Artists Rising Co.
The 4th Annual Spring SONG Songwriting Challenge is the perfect creative catalyst to help you develop your creative practice, sharpen your songwriting skills, explore your unique artistic expression and break through any obstacles blocking your creative voice.
WHEREVER YOU ARE
ON YOUR ARTISTIC JOURNEY,
THIS SONGWRITING CHALLENGE WILL UNLOCK THE INSPIRATION YOU NEED
TO MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR DREAMS, DISCOVER
YOUR TRUE VOICE AND TRANSFORM IN WAYS YOU NEVER KNEW WERE POSSIBLE.
The Spring SONG
Songwriting Challenge officially starts
April 14th and runs until May 5th
but you can join ANYTIME during the month!
(HOWEVER You are going to want to join ASAP so you can take part in ALL the LIVE WORKSHOPS!
The LIVE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS will take place on Sundays each week throughout April 14th-May 5th online at 6-9 pm CET (Berlin time) which is at noon EST (NYC time)
9 am PST (LA time)! You have the choice of choosing one per week or having access to all the workshops! (As well as recordings of any you can't attend!)
STAY MOTIVATED by sharing songs or snippets with others, connecting to a larger creative community from around the world! Daily songwriting prompts, as well as special instructive videos and lessons will be given during the 21 day challenge! There will be fun giveaways and lots of opportunities to receive feedback and encouragement, track & celebrate your progress!
The following is a list of the workshop schedule and offerings:
(And P.S....you do not have to be an experienced songwriter!
All levels, from beginner to advanced are welcome in this songwriting challenge!)
And P.P.S... in the past, there have been painters and photographers and poets who have joined this challenge! YOU DO NOT NECESSARILY NEED TO BE A SONGWRITER TO BENEFIT FROM THE CHALLENGE, THE COMMUNITY AND THE WORKSHOPS!
April 14th at 6 pm CET: CREATIVE DISCIPLINE How to deepen (or start!) your own creative practice and how creative discipline can change your life!
April 14th at 7 pm CET: THE EMBODIED ARTIST Learn how calming your nervous system & helping yourself feel safe in your body helps your creativity flow!
April 14th at 8 pm CET:SONGWRITERS CIRCLE Share what you are writing with others & receive encouragement and feedback in your process!
April 21st at 6 pm CET: 7 HABITS FOR HIGHLY EFFECTIVE SONGWRITERS Tips and strategies to improve your songwriting!
April 21st at 7 pm CET: GROWING YOUR AUDIENCE How to begin to promote your songs and build a community to share your music with!
April 21st at 8 pm CET:SONGWRITERS CIRCLE Share what you are writing with others and receive feedback and encouragement in your process!
April 28th at 6 pm CET: BEFRIENDING THE CRITICAL VOICE Songwriting as a mode of healing
April 28th at 7 pm CET: VOCAL TECHNIQUE Important techniques to help you sing your songs with more power & freedom, in your true, authentic voice!
April 28th at 8 pm CET: SONGWRITERS CIRCLE Share what you are writing with others and receive feedback and encouragement in your process!
May 5th at 6 pm: MINDSET FOR SUCCESS: How to develop a mindset that will enable you to succeed as an artist!
May 5th at 7 pm: CO-WRITING & COLLABORATION: Important skills and strategies for collaborating with other artists!
May 5th at 8 pm: SONGWRITERS CIRCLE: Share what you are writing with others and receive feedback and encouragement in your process
Exactly 13 years ago, I started my very first song diary. I had no idea it would become such an important, healing & transformative thing in my life. I just knew, at the time, I was on the edge - I was grieving, depressed and needed something to change - fast. I needed to find a way to release the heavy emotions inside me. I was working in Berlin as an opera singer but I needed to try something that had more individual creative expression. I started writing songs and making little music videos to go with them and then sending the videos to my family back in the United States. There's definitely a lot more to the story but fast forward a year (and 400 more songs and music videos later!) I ended up discovering something that gave me more joy than I had ever experienced before! ...
And I realized I was in the wrong career! So I started a band, moved to California, ended up recording and releasing my first albums and eventually doing TWO MORE, YEAR-LONG, DAILY SONG DIARIES because the process of daily creativity gives me so much life and inspiration!
Since then I've released 4 albums, I've gotten to record with Grammy award winning producers like Charlie Peacock (The Civil Wars, Switchfoot) and Gordon Raphael (The Strokes, Regina Spektor), and have received favorable reviews from The New York Times and Musikfonds, Deutschland.
I want everyone to experience the incredible joy, discovery and healing that comes from daily, spontaneous creativity! And I hope you will join me for this year's Spring Songwriting challenge!
Xo,
JennyRebecca
What People Are Saying About Songwriting Challenges at Artists Rising Co.
In Phase One, you will be guided through the writing process to know how to create, refine and choose the best song(s) to release next so you know that your next release is something you can be proud of! You will also be given immediate strategy and systems to begin to cultivate your audience and platform, so that when release day comes, you have a solid core community that is excited to cheer you on!
In Phase Three, you will learn how to create a killer release/launch strategy, not only for your music but for any product you create in the future. You will learn how to systematically build your brand and platform along the way so that when it comes time to "rinse and repeat" (do this whole process again of write + record + release + promote) you will know exactly what you are doing & you will have an ever increasing number of people who will celebrate you and your music.
EACH PHASE IS ESPECIALLY TAILORED TO THE NEEDS AND DESIRES
OF THE SPECIFIC GROUP OF ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO...
It includes TWO hours of group coaching per week and One hour of private coaching per month.
Why waste all this time creating songs if you don't have a music video to go along with it?! In this masterclass, I will give you 10 different strategies you can use to create your own music videos!
I have created two international tours on my own. Both were successful and financially lucrative. You will learn how to create your own tour (either in person OR virtually) in any cities you'd like to visit, so you can start to grow your audience organically in this way, and share your music with more people.
Crowdfunding can seem overwhelming but sometimes it can be the best strategy to launch an album! I've successfully completed two Kickstarter campaigns, totaling almost $30,000, as well as my own Patreon community. In this masterclass, you will learn how it's possible to engage with your community even more and build momentum before a launch or how to fund new projects using crowdfunding.
Learning how to hear which instruments a track needs in the arrangement is a skill that is important to develop. In this masterclass, you will learn basic music theory tools for harmonic progressions and instrumentation so you can record your songs with more depth and color.
Did you know that if you have 1000 fans who buy $100 worth of product from you a year, you would be making 6 figures? Whatever your monetary goals, there are multiple ways to create sustainable revenue from your music. This masterclass is all about creating merch and products related to your music, as well as 15 different additional income streams available to you as an independent artist.
Becoming a successful musician is a mental and emotional resilience game. These masterclasses will be an invaluable introduction to help further your awareness in what you are thinking and how your thoughts directly effect your results. When you see how fast things can change when you adjust your thoughts and start building new beliefs and neural pathways, you’ll be wishing you did it yesterday.
**SPECIAL FOR SONGWRITING CHALLENGE PARTICIPANTS** - €1,499
**SPECIAL FOR SONGWRITING CHALLENGE PARTICIPANTS** - $1,499New Paragraph
Track 1: Not everyone is interested in growing their audience or developing in all the ways listed above. Some are just interested in the songwriting part with occasional inspiration in cultivating creativity. If this is you, than you can join the Songwriters Studio for just one hour a week for a total of €600 (which comes to 100 per month).
This includes:
Track 2: Track 2 is the full shabang!
The full course (or the Songwriters Studio Intensive) includes:
The next Songwriters Studio 6 month session will start on May 6th and run until October 28th.
One of the worst feelings is working so hard to create and release a single that no one seems to notice...Or maybe you’ve already taken some steps to start building your platform and community, but you’re still not seeing real growth?
Maybe you’re sick of looking at your journal full of unfinished songs, or watching other artists online, and wondering...Why not me?!
One disappointment or discouragement can take you out for weeks and deep down you know and are wondering, "Why am I doing all of this for nothing?"
There Is A Strategy That Some Of The Most Successful Independent Artists Are Implementing To Continue To Grow Their Platform And Artistic Development Without Losing Hope And Giving Up All Together.
In the Songwriters Studio!
“Working with JennyRebecca made me so alive and it changed everything. It just made me feel super hopeful, super encouraged, and it actually gave me faith that it could happen for me. It gave me a huge boost because before, writing just 1 song a year was like a dream to me. I'd written a few songs, a lot of half written songs, but she really showed me that I can do more than I think, I can create more than I think, and the moment I step into creativity, instead of the source running out, it actually is exploding! JennyRebecca is the real deal! She approaches becoming an artist from all angles and empowers you with wisdom and knowledge. What makes this course so effective is that everything she teaches is coming from a place of her own experience. She is so excellent as a songwriter, singer and a teacher. She challenges you and has tons of grace. I would highly recommend this masterclass to any singer-songwriter!
Rose just released her first single in 2021!
Rose Kelley
"Before working with JennyRebecca, I felt constantly discouraged to pursue my dream and pursue my music. I always felt like I was hitting these obstacles, like I was getting nowhere. She gave me so many tools to do the inside work and to keep encouraging myself daily." Cristina released her first single September 30, 2021!
Cristina Alice
"I've worked with JR for the last 6 years and basically sign up for everything she is offering, whether it's the Collective, private coaching, or Songwriters Studio because she has helped me believe I am an artist and know that my art is valuable. She's helped me learn to connect with the childlike wonder of creating (and not get bogged down by the production aspect of it).
She's helped me know my WHY and become comfortable with leaning into the uncomfortable emotions that creativity brings to the surface and she's always encouraging me to continue creating and be true to myself. The group aspect and accountability of the Songwriters Studio was also just pure magic and intimate, and that family feeling really made us all feel so valued and propelled us so much higher than I ever thought possible." - Makayla released her first single in 2021
Makayla King
"JennyRebecca is so positive and encouraging, and it really made me realize my own resistance in ways I hadn't been willing to see before. She would say "You can do this!" and I would find myself saying back, "No, I could never do that, etc." but then I would marinate on that during the week and start to really ask myself why I was thinking those kinds of thoughts and reexamining. Before this course I wouldn't have even considered breaking through that resistance, or even knowing it was there. And I now have faith in my ability to record and put out a song, to play with EQ. I can play the piano into Midi, I can fix it, I can change notes, I can tune myself, do the compression and reverb. I definitely did things that were scary in a good way during this class! I tried things I wouldn't have allowed myself to try on my own, because it would have been messy...and that's the point! There was so much safety in the group and the accountability and deadlines helped me get consistent and realize that the consistency doesn't have to be perfect and that is how we really make progress." -Stevi M has released 6 amazing singles!
Stevi M
"The Songwriter’s Studio was a fantastic program and participating in it was the highlight of my year! The community and connection that JR facilitates, and cultivates, provide a safe and encouraging space to learn, grow, and create. Her instruction and feedback throughout the program were tremendously helpful and came from her genuine care and interest in my creative work. During the first month of the program, I wrote a song that has become one of my favorites! I enjoyed being part of a group with other creatives, celebrating our progress, encouraging each other to keep going in spite of challenges, and working together to see our songs come to life." -Melinda's first single is due to come out this November!
Melinda Deveney
"JR’s Songwriter’s Studio has provided me with a subtle, yet amazing, midlife transformation! Songwriting is new to me this year yet through this course JennyRebecca has provided heartfelt support and encouragement, nurtured self exploration into areas I hadn’t given much thought to before, taught basic recording skills and provided a wonderful group space to share with other beautiful souls who’ve I’ve grown to love. In this space I tried to rise to every challenge given and therefore gained a fair bit of confidence over time in my songwriting skills. I transformed from a perspective of simple interest; of unworthiness to really take myself seriously in my creative potential as a singer-songwriter, to discovering that this is now a passionate part of my life from now on. I would encourage anyone who feels even a quiet, creative songwriting flame inside to take this course and see what happens!"
Andrea Anscombe
"I am super happy to be a part of the Songwriter Studio. JR is an incredibly insightful and profound soul. Working with her has brought me a lot closer to my dream, but more importantly, to myself. I definitely want to continue working with her and can only recommend it to you as well!"
Yvonne Höhn
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