Course Schedule:

Week 1: What Makes a Good Song?

Week 2: Making Emotional Connections.

Week 3: Song Structures

Week 4: Going for Constant Improvement

Week 5: Lyric Writing Best Practices

Week 6: What Have We Learned?

Week 7: Live Performance by Grant Maloy Smith

About Grant Maloy Smith

“My songs have been on the Billboard Top 10 for four months and on the MusicRow CountryBreakout charts … the only reason I ever got any better as a songwriter was because I listened to great songs and songwriters. I took classes, I read books. I studied my craft and worked real hard. That’s the way it happens. Learning to rewrite a song or part of a song is what took my songwriting to a new level. It’s hard but you need to learn how to do that, and I can show you how." - Grant Maloy Smith

Grant Maloy Smith is a Billboard Top 10 recording artist and MusicRow CountryBreakout charting songwriter of AMERICAN ROOTS music. His latest album, Dust Bowl - American Stories spent 17 weeks on the Billboard charts, including eleven weeks in the Top 10. Grant made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2018 and has won numerous awards, including two Grammy® certificates. He will be appearing at Lincoln Center in late 2020, and Carnegie Hall again April 2021. He has just been inducted into the Indie Music Hall of Fame in Hollywood. The "Bible" of American Roots music, NO DEPRESSION magazine, raved: “… lyrics and music as potent as Woody Guthrie ... A reminder of the darker period of Bob Dylan, and it’s that good, that memorable…”.