IMPORTANT NOTE: This workshop is for advanced songwriters. And this assignment is for everyone who attends.

Molly’s Songwriting Assignment:

1. Following the guidelines below, please write a new song/lyric/melody to present at the workshop.

2. Please write your song/lyric/melody for someone else to sing, eg: Carrie Underwood or Tim McGraw. Even if you have the best voice in the world, please write this song for someone else who is on the charts now and a name we all know. Elvis has left the building.

3. No slick demo is necessary. One voice/one instrument is fine. A cappella is okay, too. So is a lyric only, or melody only. You could even grunt for three minutes.

4. Make a very simple recording to bring to our workshop – even singing or whistling onto a cassette while in the shower is cool. Performing live is often intimidating, and time consuming, so please bring a recording of some kind, as well as the appropriate player. If you write lyrics only or melodies only, that’s fine, too. Bring what you have, even if your song isn’t finished.

5. Please bring a typed copy of your lyric sheet for each of us at the workshop.

6. Please stick to this song structure: verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus. Don’t forget the bridge!

7. Please go up a major third from the last note of the verse to the first note of the chorus. No minor thirds, no seconds, please – a major third.

8. If you’re brand new to songwriting, you are welcome to join us, but please read one or both of Molly’s books before attending so we can be true to the advanced level of this workshop. Molly Leikin’s books, “How To Write A Hit Song” and “How To Be A Hit Songwriter”, are available in paperback at www.amazon.com.

9. The main focus of our workshop will be learning Molly’s method of strengthening your hustle muscles to powerfully market/pitch your work to all the right people. Remember – they need new artists and great songs as much as you need them.

10. BONUS!! Molly will be happy to do a one-on-one consultation by phone or email after the workshop with everyone who attends. She is offering a special marketing consulting price for PSA members only: one song for $60, five songs for $200, ten songs for $300. All songs must be written by the same writers. We’re on the honor system here. Please bring your recorded material, with a separate lyric for each song, and your check, payable to Songwriting Consultants, Ltd. Molly will take everything home with her, listen several times, making careful notes and getting back to you within a few days. You have the option of a phone or email consultation – pick one. No material will be accepted at this special rate after the workshop.