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"This songwriting course was
great...I've had writer's block for two years...this songwriting course helped free me up
to finish songs again - thanks!" - Wil Comstock - songwriter
"If you miss these
songwriting classes, you're cheating your career" - Nancy Moran - songwriter and
recording artist
"They teach the stuff
songwriters need to know. Danny makes songwriting easy to understand" - Terry Reid
- songwriter
"I learned the Nashville
Number System well enough to do all the charts for a CD project I produced!" - Fett,
Engineer and Producer, Azalea Studios
"The work of organizing was
already done. All I had to do was sit back and learn songwriting" - Mark Vinsant -
songwriter
"In my opinion, Danny's one
of the best melody writers in Nashville and together they are one of the best songwriting
teams in this town" - Kacey Jones, CURB recording artist
About Danny Arena and Sara Light
Danny Arena is a songwriter, composer and professional songwriting
instructor. He holds degrees from Rutgers University in both computer science and music
composition. He developed his songwriting workshops eight years ago at Billy Edd Wheeler's
"Great Smokies Song Chase", where he served as a songwriting faculty member. He
is currently an Associate Professor at Volunteer State Community College in Nashville, a
member of the faculty at Vanderbilt University and a columnist for the Nashville
Songwriter's Association International (NSAI) Newswire and American Songwriter Magazine. Danny has been
a guest lecturer at the Berklee School of Music, Belmont University and the NSAI Spring
and Summer Symposiums. He is a regular songwriting instructor at the Nashville NSAI
Workshop Pro-Teaching series and the NSAI Song Camps. He has served as a judge in several
national songwriting contests. Every spring he conducts his popular six-week
songwriting "short courses" on Music Theory, Composing and the Nashville Number
System. He is currently a signed staffwriter with Curb/Magnatone Music
Publishing in Nashville.
Sara
Light is a professional songwriter who holds a Master's degree from Rutgers University
in English Education. While living in NJ, she was an instructor at Rutgers University and
studied lyric writing with Sheila Davis from 1989 to 1992. After moving to Nashville to
pursue songwriting, she served as the Nashville Songwriter's Association International
(NSAI) membership director until 1996. She has been a guest lecturer at several NSAI
regional workshops, the Nashville NSAI Workshop Pro-Teaching series and Belmont
University. She has served as a judge in several national songwriting contests and her
popular class on lyric writing has a waiting list. She is currently a faculty member
at Vanderbilt University and a full-time staff songwriter for Zamalama Music. She
wrote the John Michael Montgomery title cut and hit single, "Home
To You."
Together, Danny and Sara teach
their popular songwriting course The Writer's Group which focuses on both the music and
lyrics in current chart topping country songs. They perform regularly as songwriters in
Nashville at the Bluebird Cafe. They have given songwriting seminars throughout the US and
Canada and have been married for eight nine (whew, made
another one :-) years.
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