About Our Workshops
Each fun-filled workshop is designed to stimulate creativity, self-awareness, diversity, and collaborative thinking within a safe environment that can be scaled to fit schedule needs.
Lyrically Speaking
Lyrically Speaking is a k-12 creative writing workshop that focuses on songwriting, music production, and beginner's music theory. This scalable workshop sparks inspiration, encourages diversity and creativity while challenging students to collaborate, write, and record an original song. Lessons incorporate Common Core Standards. Tracks include "The Data Dump", "Can I Flow?", "Gimme Me A Beat!", and "Peace & What’s Harmony?" Additional course details are provided upon request.
Student & Teacher Feedback
My 8th grade class participated in a workshop by Lyrically Speaking with Eric Hayslett this year. For eight weeks, he came to the class every Monday, leading the class from little to no knowledge about song writing and composition to the completion of a song they are all proud of. He was motivating, instructional and enthusiastic, all while moving them through the stages of song writing. He emphasized that it was about fun and creativity and just trying, and it was really engaging for the kids.
Some of the comments of the 14 year old students are as follows:
"It was really cool. I didn't think we would be able to actually write a real song, but we did."
"Eric was a great guy. He is really smart and the mixing he did with our voices was amazing."
"I got to sing part of it, and I was really nervous, but we did several takes and it turned out good."
"When we were writing the words, I didn't think it would come together, but it did. It was a great class."
Bonnie Malouf, 8th grade teacher
Discovery Charter School Pheonix
Some of the comments of the 14 year old students are as follows:
"It was really cool. I didn't think we would be able to actually write a real song, but we did."
"Eric was a great guy. He is really smart and the mixing he did with our voices was amazing."
"I got to sing part of it, and I was really nervous, but we did several takes and it turned out good."
"When we were writing the words, I didn't think it would come together, but it did. It was a great class."
Bonnie Malouf, 8th grade teacher
Discovery Charter School Pheonix
Drum It Up
Drum It Up is an 8-week course that teaches students how to play drums, program electric drum machine, and enjoy a variety of percussion instruments that include cowbells, tambourine, claves and shekeres. Students will learn as many as three to five rhythms throughout the course, and will conclude with a small performance at the end of the workshop. Additional course details are provided upon request.
Re-Percussions
Re-Percussions is a collaborative workshop that teaches kids how to re-purpose, re-engineer, and re-cycle random reusable containers into percussion instruments. Additional workshop details provided upon request.
