Bring your songs to life

Exploring how to take musical ideas and turning them into full songs with songwriting lessons is a rewarding pursuit! To bring your songs to life, you need to find a music school with professional instructors and quality programs. San Ramon School of Music offers private lessons for songwriting taught by our exclusive college-degreed faculty. Exploring how to take musical ideas and turning them into full songs with songwriting lessons is a rewarding pursuit! To bring your songs to life, you need to find a music school with professional instructors and quality programs. San Ramon School of Music offers private lessons for songwriting taught by our exclusive college-degreed faculty.

Our lessons will help students understand the structure of songs, and from there transform them from the casual lyricist to the sharpest songwriter they can possibly be. So if you want to become a lyrical genius like classic John Lennon or Ed Sheeran, Adele, and Taylor Swift, enroll in lessons and start your songwriting career today! Students will develop the skills needed to structure a song. This includes learning form, rhythm, melody, as well as, harmonies to create their own musical vision. This class is designed to build self-confidence while also allowing the student to learn through collaboration with their peers. will assist you to find your own unique writing voice. You can learn techniques that will help you to craft a good song. Perhaps you are a writer who has good ideas, hooks or pieces of songs. Maybe you have trouble finishing your songs. For many writers, it is easy is to start a song, but difficult to finish it. SRSM will teach you tools that will help you through the process to complete your total song.

Classes & Teachers

• Piano

  We offer a number of different piano teaching methods and styles including traditional sight reading, playing without learning to read music, chord-based methods, improvisation, songwriting & theory.

• Guitar

  Guitar is not a difficult instrument to learn if you have a good teacher. In fact, it can be a blast! We are patient with all our beginners and we welcome students that have never even picked up a guitar before!

• Singing

  Your voice teacher will also be able to see any weak points that a trainer of a choir or group class may not notice. This way, you will avoid developing bad habits that might impede your progress.

• Songwriting

  Exploring how to take musical ideas and turning them into full songs with songwriting lessons is a rewarding pursuit! To bring your songs to life, you need to find a music school with professional instructors and quality programs.

• Jane Brody

  A professional, critically acclaimed recording artist/singer-songwriter and teacher from Maryland and later New York City. Ms. Brody has been teaching since 1988.

• Lorrie Harris

  Singing since the age of 5. She has developed Award Winning Talent in the Bay area and has been teaching for 20 years. Her smooth but powerful Vocal Style includes R&B, Rock, Pop and everything in between.

• Linda Henning

  Teaching for over 25 years, her unique teaching style incorporates her specialized degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development with an emphasis in the Childhood Years.

• Vince Mellone

  Vince Mellone has been playing guitar for 20 years, inspired to pick up the instrument after hearing The Beatles at age 14. He studied electric guitar with Joe Livoti and then classical guitar with Richard Savino while attending Sacramento State University.

Unique Skills Applied

Everyone has a unique set of skills, talents, and time to devote to learning an instrument or piece of music. The more you practice, the faster your advancement will be.

Specific Music Goals

It will take your teacher at least a few weeks to examine your progress enough to be able to guide your instruction to achieve your specific musical goals.

Students Musical Passions

Because each person has a different image of himself as a guitar player, it is important to work with an instructor who shares the musical passions of the student.