The Essential Songwriter

Singers, Songwriters, Producers, listen up...

This is our Best Of from over a decade of teaching! Learn how to write killer Vocal Hooks, Bass lines, Drum grooves, Piano and Guitar parts, how to arrange and produce and how to make your music tell a story... by actually doing it!

Next run starts July 28, 2025. Don't want to miss it? Sign up to our Mailing List and we'll let you know when it's time.

✓ Any skill level, no previous knowledge required.
✓ Start writing on Day 1.
✓ Designed to be finished.

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The tools I learned helped me structure & arrange all of my music including my single „Soleil“ which has gained over 500K streams across all my platforms combined!

Erik Ryan

5M+ plays on Spotify

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With your guidance, my songs were selected to win a slot in Tayla Parx's songwriting/production camp in NYC. It changed my life and it's thanks to your education.

Asia Ward

10K+ monthly Spotify listeners

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HSA has been a game-changer for me. It's comprehensive, flexible, and incredibly enlightening. Would I recommend it? Absolutely. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat.

Michael Matics

1M+ listeners on Spotify

This is NOT a theory class.

We have cut all the fat from teaching song creation to give you several decades of songwriting wisdom in 12 weeks.
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‍✓ ZERO fluff, no time wasted. All lessons are short, fast and actionable.
✓ Workbooks, cheat sheets, blueprints, do-as-I-dos, journaling... We make song creation easy and fun.

This is about making FAST progress, so if you have little time, this is the perfect course for you. ‍

ALL levels

72+ LESSONs

15+ hours

+12 LIVESTREAMS

workbook

All you need is 30 Minutes a day.

...and within 12 weeks you'll be writing songs you're proud of. Here's what that looks like in practice:

Week 1: Memorable Hooks & Melodies.
Week 2: Bass Lines & their interaction with the melody.
‍Week 3: Chords and how they interact with melody & bass
‍Week 4: Writing & Programming Drums
‍Week 5: Lyrics & how to make them sound amazing
‍Week 6: The Supergroove: Interaction of all instruments
‍Week 7: The Addiction Formula
‍Week 8: Write a Rock/Country song
‍Week 9: Write a Pop/EDM song
‍Week 10: Write a Chill/Ballad song
‍Week 11: Write an RnB/Hip Hop song
‍Week 12: Write anything

Here's how we make sure you don't quit:

‍To improve your motivation:
✓ Weekly livestreams
✓ Online Community
✓ Weekly Mindset videos
✓ Daily Journal with questions
✓ Audio Mantras
✓ Private Coaching (optional)

To reduce stress:
✓ Weekends are off (if you want) and many lessons are marked as optional.
✓ Daily videos are tighly edited to 15 minutes.
✓ We help you schedule your daily practice.

Our 'Best Of' from over a decade of teaching.

In this course, we have broken down our most meaningful contributions to the world into manageable chunks:
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‍✓ The Addiction Formula makes your songs addictive
✓ The Laws of Groovity, to make anything groove.
✓ Write evergreen hooks with the Giraffe Melody.
✓ The Lyric Canvas 2.0 for meaningful & impactful lyrics
✓ Highly memorable lyrics using our Memotecs

Will you join us for our next run?
Program starts July 28, 2025.
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Don't want to miss it? Sign up to our Mailing List and we'll let you know when it's time.

We are called Holistic Songwriting for a reason...

What makes us different is that we're not teaching our various disciplines separately - we show you how they interact and overlap, using our Holistic Songwriting Circle. For example:

✓ Lyrics-Melody: How to make sure your text sounds amazing.
✓ Melody-Bass: How changing one affects the other and how to take advantage of that.
✓ Drums-Bass: How to combine them into a Supergroove that rocks your arrangement.

Meet Your Instructor

"I love making things, learning things and helping people. If I don’t make, I get restless. If I don’t learn, I feel empty. If I don’t help, I feel ungrateful. Good things have happened when I managed to balance all three." - Friedemann Findeisen

Friedemann is the bestselling author of the Addiction Formula and the creative brain behind the viral YouTube Sensation "Holistic Songwriting" with over 400K subscribers and millions of views. He is also the creator of the massively popular Songwriting Decks on Kickstarter, a successful board game designer, card magician, entrepreneur, songwriter/producer, sudoku solver and cat lover.

The 20% you need to write 80% of songs.
Program starts July 28, 2025.

Don't want to miss it? Sign up to our Mailing List and we'll let you know when it's time.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: I'm an Holistic Songwriting Academy alumnus, is this for me?
A: Absolutely! This program was created from an entirely new perspective: Where HSA is about understanding music in depth, this is about taking action. Every single video is about getting you to write songs, focusing you in on the 20% of HSA you'll use every day.

Q: I'm a complete beginner / professional songwriter. Is this for me?
A: Yes. The focus here isn't on theory, it's on taking action, which is something everybody struggles with. But even if you don't, you will find techniques here (some new, some from HSA) which you can't find anywhere else.

Q: What's your refund policy?
A: I think you'll love the program and won't need a refund, but just in case you disapprove of my dad jokes, you will get a 100% refund no questions asked as long as you apply for it within 30 days of purchase.