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Jai-Jo NEWS - SUMMER 2010
Jai’s Special One-Day Saturday Songshop
Once
a month Jai leads the Saturday Songshop where he coaches and
mentors
Northern California songwriters who want to improve their
craft
and succeed in the music business. Several alumni have gone on
to
receive publishing deals, major label artist deals, and placements in
film
and television. The regular ongoing workshop is full, but Jai
is
doing a Special One-Day version on July 10th
and a few seats are
still
available. Email Jai directly to take advantage of this
opportunity:
jaijomusic@yahoo.com
Jai
is coming to New Mexico! He will be giving his Transforming
the
Tune - Secrets of Musical Rewriting workshop
in Alburquerque
on
Sat. August 14th.
To register email Tony Sanchez at tony@seqsln.com.
Though
most of you know Jai primarily through his commercial songwriting and teaching,
he also has a long
and
rich history of writing music for transformation and healing. His songs
in this genre have been used
by
some of the leading consciousness teachers in the world, and the best of
them are now available on a
CD
entitled Freedom River. Click here
for more details.
The
3rd in the Audioseries,CHORD CHEMISTRY. is here to round out the
series
started
with GETTING INTO the GROOVE and continued with
MELODY
MAGIC. See the Purchase Products page.
Jai
Josefs welcomes you to the Jai-Jo music web site.
If
you're serious about becoming a great songwriter, you've come to
the
right place. Let renowned songwriter and songwriting coach, Jai
Josefs
help you take your songwriting to a new level.
It
is a popular myth that songwriting comes purely from inspiration.
In
the words of multi-platinum hit songwriter Tom Snow, " Songwriting
is
really 10% inspiration and 90% craft .... and Jai Josefs is one of this
country's
most respected teachers of that craft."
'Secrets
of Songwriting Success' - Still
the only multimedia
songwriting
workshop (2 CD-ROM Set) - 'Songwriting
workshop
on your computer' - In PC and MAC versions.
(see
Purchase
Products page).
Here
you can also learn more here
on Amazon.com
about
Jai's groundbreaking book 'Writing Music for
Hit Songs'
and
see how to purchase it. Find out how to attend Jai's
workshops
in person, how to sponsor a workshop in
your
area, and about other songwriters' resources.
Jai
Josefs is the author of Writing Music for Hit
Songs,
the definitive text on modern music writing
endorsed
by hit writers including Diane Warren. He is
also
a nationally renowned songwriting coach who has
taught
songwriting at UCLA as well as for dozens of
songwriting
organizations and conferences natiowide.
Many
of his students have gone on to successful
careers
in the industry, and several have been signed
to
major label deals.
In
addition, he is a successful songwriter/producer
in
his own right whose credits include more than 30
recordings
with such companies as MCA, RCA, Motown,
and
Disney and hit artists like Jose Feliciano. His
songs
have been used in TV shows on every major
network
(CSI, Brothers and Sisters, What About Brian,
Monk,
Cold Case etc.) as well as over a dozen major
motion
pictures with such stars as Harrison Ford, Nick
Nolte,
Jessica Lange, and Billy Bob Thornton.
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To
contact Jai Josefs: jaijomusic@yahoo.com