This is your final reminder, the club is moving to my website and off of Skool. I'd love to have you all there. You can join as a free member, and then I'll give you access to the Club Member section for the course. You can sign up here: https://www.brianbotkiller.com/owscmasterclass I hope to see you all there. Thanks so much!

Hi everyone, Unfortunately, Skool has become too costly for me to maintain at this time. I may restart it, but for now, the OWSC has to move to my own platform on my website, a newly-built app for iOS and Android, and Discord. Everyone who joined the OWSC early (that's all 20 of you, thank you!), will have access to the app and community via my website, if you'd like to continue to be a part of this. You won't pay anything, as you are my early adopters. If you're interested in this, please send me a DM. I will also be DMing you myself for a follow-up prior to cancelling my Skool subscription. I fully believe in the OWSC, but, I have to be mindful of finances in continuing to launch this project. Skool costs $100/mo., and, even as I have been heavily marketing it via ads networks, I've yet to turn it into a project that is paying for itself. My goal is to do that via my website. The bonus of this is that, of course, the system will not be reliant on a third-party platform. If you're interested in the OWSC app, it is currently available via web, with the Android/iOS submissions pending review. You may join here: https://one-week-song-club.passion.io/ With your permission and your email, I will give you access to the course and community. The Discord server will be active this week. The OWSC on Skool will close on 12/9/24. I hope to see you all as we move platforms and continue to create something great. Thank you!

Here's a song produced entirely with recordings from a Casio SK-1. Sample sources include wine glasses, a sawblade, a glass vase, and human voice. I tried to use every feature the keyboard has, including the onboard glissando, envelopes, vibrato, and beats. Micro-keys are hard to play.

I talk a LOT about LANDR in my course. I fully believe that it is an excellent way to master and release your music. LANDR is hosting a Black Friday sale, and I highly suggest that you take advantage of it! You can find information here: https://www.landr.com/pricing/

We’ve talked a lot about mindset, tools, and ways to get past perfectionism. Let’s lay it all out on the table. Here’s how to write a song every week. Use a Template This is covered in the next section, but the basic idea is this; have a template for your DAW, whichever flavor you choose to use, that lets you sit down and get right to work. Go With the First Idea That Happens If you’re writing a lot of music, two things are going to happen: 1. You’re going to have an idea that you want to make happen.  2. You’re not going to have any ideas.  Either of these situations is optimal for writing more music. If you have an idea, sit down and do your best to run with it. It may or may not come out of your head the way you heard it. That’s ok. Play Anything, and Create a Variation of Anything. If you don’t have an idea, embrace this. Play anything. I find that starting with a melody is a quick and easy way to break the ice. Play a chord on your guitar or piano. Load a virtual instrument and play with the first preset sound that you load up. DO NOT spend hours searching for the “right” preset sound. Record That Sound. Once you have a sound – anything – record that sound. Then, record even the slightest variation of it – change the chord, timing, or even the key – and record it. Now you have written two key components to a song. Move Onto the Next Part and Create Variations Next, move onto either the bass or drums; I personally like to move onto the drums from here. Again, repeat the steps as previous with melody for drums or bass; record what comes to you first. Then, record a slight variation. You now have two parts to a song, or four, or perhaps more, if you play with these variations. Next, move onto bass (or drums, if you opted for bass in step 2). Repeat the previous steps of at least two variations. In the purest sense, you now have the building blocks for a standard structure song. If you increase each of these variations to three of each instrument, you’ve now written the basic structure for 90% of pop songs released in the last 50 years.