Multi-platinum selling, hit songwriter, producer and educator Wayne Cohen has taught master classes in songwriting and production at the Tisch/NYU - Clive Davis Recorded Music Program, NYU/Steinhardt School, Berklee College of Music, City College NY, SUNY/Purchase College and the Maine Songwriter's Association.
His 20+ years experience and passion as an educator has also given him the ability to turn his toolkit into a songwriting tutoring course that now benefits songwriters around the world, in individual and group tutoring sessions, via Skype and at his midtown Manhattan, NYC studio.
Wayne also offers group courses Building the Breakthrough Song and Human Music Marketing in the Digital Age.
Wayne's multi-million selling songs are hits and releases for Clive Davis signed artist Curtis Stigers, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Martin Sexton, UK girl group Eternal, the #1 album by European Pop Idol and many others. His songs are also featured in the Warner Bros. film and soundtrack Practical Magic starring Sandra Bullock, as well as network and cable television shows.
Wayne writes melody, lyrics, and tracks, and has cuts with 100% and co-written songs.
How the tutoring works: Wayne's primary goal is to give feedback, while sharing a series of personalized songwriting and marketing tools that will help to create attention getting, radio and iPod friendly songs, and can help songwriters market their work more effectively.
"Genius coaching" - Craig R. - Arizona based singer/songwriter
"..a very focused, useful and interesting presentation..excellent work." - Dr Ronald Sadoff, NYU Dept. of Music and Performing Arts Associate Professor & Director Scoring for Film and Multimedia
"Your presentation was informative and presented with enthusiasm and with a deep knowledge of the subject matter--the students listened intently and trusted your every word. - Mark Suozzo - Oscar-nominated composer, NYU Dept. of Music and Performing Arts Film Scoring Faculty
"Please let me know when you're coming back to NYU." - James A., NYU Steinhardt School
"Thanks for coming by our NYU songwriting class. Great feedback about our writing. - Gabriel H., NYU/Steinhardt School
"I would love the slides from your talk." - Shruti K., NYU/Steinhardt School
"Wayne gave a terrific presentation at NYU called THE SONG IS THE SCORE which explored how songs are currently being used in motion pictures. - David Spear, Music Associate Professor NYU/Steinhardt School
"...Wayne: Thanks for coming! We all enjoyed your guest lecture - we have to keep repeating it!"
- Brane Zivkovic, - faculty of Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at NYU/Tisch, re: master class
"..before an SRO crowd of music majors at SUNY/Purchase College, within the first five minutes, it became obvious he had a natural gift for teaching. He has the ability to convey the essence of a concept in a clear and engaging manner." - Allyson Bellink - Associate Professor Studio Composition SUNY/Purchase, Grammy award winning television composer.
"..Thank you for the time you gave to our students. They found it extremely valuable and pertinent to their projects. I look forward to future visits.
- Andy Teirstein, Associate Professor Tisch School of the Arts
"He's just a one stop shop really when it comes to songwriting, he's fantastic...everything he's taught me is in my head, whereas before, I wasn't really aware of all of that..Looking forward to our next session soon!" - Dimitra - Adelaide, Australia based singer/songwriter
"Thank you for your insight!" Daniel O. - song seminar attendee
"Looking forward to our next session" - James B., UK based singer/songwriter
"Thanks so much for the song tutoring - I'm learning a lot from it and enjoy working with you!" - Molly M., NYC based singer/songwriter
"I really loved working with you, you've taught me so much" - Anne F., NYC based singer/songwriter
"Thank you again for the wonderful songwriting experience you gave to Ben..we are really delighted with the results." - Sharon D.
"Hey Wayne, Thank you so much for your insight on my song." - George C., - Northern CA based independent singer/songwriter.
"Wayne is an amazing songwriter." -Billy Mann, President, BMG Music
You can watch an informational video about Wayne's tutoring by clicking on the link below.
You can read and subscribe to Wayne's blog about the craft of songwriting here.
Individual one hour sessions $160
Series of six individual one hour sessions $900
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"In today's single song download world, writing, producing and marketing a breakthrough song is what it's all about. I share some of my 20+ years experience as a hit songwriter, producer and music publisher to give the developing artist the tools they need to do create that for themselves."
