Courses

ICMP's BA (Hons) Songwriting degree offers a modern, holistic approach to songwriting, helping you to develop your expertise and creative identity as a songwriter, whether you're an artist (writer–performer), writer–producer or topliner. You'll gain the industry knowledge and professional skillsets you need for a successful songwriting career.

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3 Years

ICMP’s MA Songwriting is London’s first and only songwriting-specific postgraduate programme. Highly creative, business-minded and tailored to your personal interests, it provides an opportunity to develop a substantial creative songwriting project of your choosing.

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1 Year (2 years Part-time)

ICMP’s highly practical one-year CertHE Songwriting course prepares emerging songwriters for today’s music industry. Build your portfolio and develop your creative identity while gaining a strong foundation in songcraft.

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1 Year

If you’re stuck in a songwriting rut and want to write songs with confidence, this six-module self-paced online course will put some flourish back in your writing. Learn how to share your completed work with music industry publishers, singers or musicians. Enrolments are open now, so you can begin your studies at any time.

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In this self-paced online course, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the cultural and historical impact of five key musical genres. Explore and understand each genre and then learn the techniques of songwriting for each style. Enrolments are open now, so you can commence at any time.

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Our part-time Songwriting course introduces techniques on the craft of writing songs and includes an introductory breakdown and analysis of songwriting content, style, genre, song structure, harmony, melody, creating arrangements and lyric writing.

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6 Weeks

Explore a range of musical genres and learning the songwriting techniques specific to those styles. You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the historical and cultural impact of music’s most popular genres, before creatively exploring them in your own songwriting.

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6 Weeks

Get your creativity flowing as you explore the songwriting process, music theory, performance tips and marketing skills in a series of intensive songwriting workshops delivered over five days.

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5 Days

Overview

SHAPING THE FUTURE OF MUSIC

Whether you are a young songwriting just starting out, a student looking to progress, or a gigging musician with years of experience, we have a songwriting course for you.

Our offer runs from part-time and short courses, through Diploma, to undergraduate and postgraduate study, so whatever your level of experience, knowledge and skills or skill level we offer a programme which will suit you.