About this Event
Want to create a spontaneous rock song in the style of Jack White, Greenday or Radiohead? How about a catchy pop song a la Ed Sheeran or Alicia Keys? Let’s improvise some pop songs!
In this fun, low stress workshop you’ll learn the fundamentals of spontaneous pop song writing including: creating hooks and melodies, chorus/verse structure, harmony, and for instrumentalists, some helpful chord progressions that are easy to sing over. We’ll show you how to quickly get on the same page musically and lyrically while having a blast improvising pop songs together!
Date: Saturday 6/18, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Unexpected Productions' Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle, WA 98101
Maximum Students: 16 - 20
Cost: $95.00
Prerequisite: Improv 100 or above
Who are David Milchard and Ken Lawson? After years of performing improvisational comedy at festivals, Vancouver TheatreSports, The Second City, and the international sensation the Comic Strippers, these two comics have strapped on their guitars and combined two of their greatest loves: Music and Improv Comedy. If you feel like you’ve seen these two before, you certainly have because they’ve been cast in hundreds of movies and television shows over the years including productions by Netflix, ABC, Amazon, NBC, CW, Disney, and the Youtube sensation Convos with my 2yrold. They’ve performed many times with Improv Legends Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, from Whose Line is it Anyway fame are inspired by Reggie Watts, Marc Rebillet, Flight of the Conchords, Tenacious D & Bo Burnham
They’ve both played in many styles of bands including metal, funk, Brit pop and blues. Ken has played guitar on many solo artists albums and one of his bands once opened up for Nickelback!
David and Ken are:
Members of the Internationally acclaimed The Comic StrippersCanadian Comedy Award Winners Canadian Comedy Award Multi-NomineesYouTube Streamy Award WinnersSecond City and Vancouver TheatreSports Alumni
You may have seen them in these TV Shows & Movies:
Altered Carbon, Supernatural, Flash, Hater’s Back Off,
You Tube’s Convos With My 2-Year-Old (125+ million views)
LouderMilk, iZombie, Adventures In Babysitting, Psych, Fringe, Sanctuary, Smallville, Arrow, Nancy Drew,
Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep, The Package
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Unexpected Productions' Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle, United States
USD 95.00