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IMRO In-Person Event | Scarlet Keys Masterclass
June 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Date: Tuesday, 4th June, 2024
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Bookings: FREE in-person event | Booking Essential | Email: events@nullimro.ie to reserve your place.
Scarlet Keys Master Class
Scarlet Keys is a professor at Berklee College of Music and a former staff songwriter for Warner Chappell.
Keys’s songs have appeared on film and TV and garnered her a gold record. She has collaborated with artists such as Chris Stapleton, Eric Roberson, Melissa Ferrick, and local artist Sam Robbins.
Some of her students include: Lizzy McAlpine, Charlie Puth, Amy Allen, Ingrid Andress, and Betty Who.
Keys is the host of the What’s in a Song podcast and the author of The Craft of Songwriting: Music, Meaning, and Emotion, but most notably, she is a world-class parallel parker.
This masterclass will be comprised of two sections:
Harmony for the songwriter:
Connecting with the mood and emotion of chords.
This class will explore both diatonic chords and chords outside the key and their effect on your lyrics.
Duration: 1 hour
Melody:
This class will explore melody as tone of voice.
How our melodic choices affect the feeling of our lyrics. Writing melodic hooks in a verse and chorus section and how to write a memorable melody.
Duration: 1 hour
