# Robert Lang Studios Songwriting Class with Rocky Votolato, Kris Orlowski Canonical URL: ## Overview Learn the seven elements of successful songwriting in Robert Lang Studios Songwriting Class with Rocky Votolato and Kris Orlowski. Robert Lang Studios, one of the Northwest’s most iconic recording studios, is world-renowned for recording bands like the Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Dave Matthews and Deathcab for Cutie. The studio’s unique stone and marble live room (built into the side of a mountain) along with the very best of analog and digital gear has attracted producers, engineers, and artists from all the world. Rocky and Kris will teach real-world techniques that are guaranteed to make you a better songwriter. You’ll learn about: - Lyrics and phrasing - Inspiration, process and technique - Collaboration, and song format and structure. Robert Lang Studios Songwriting Class with Rocky Votolato and Kris Orlowski, shot in Studio A’s live room, puts you into the writer’s room with two of the Pacific Northwest’s most respected songwriters and teaches you songwriting techniques you’ll use again and again. ## Instructors ### Kris Orlowski For Seattle musician Kris Orlowski, making music is about more than fulfilling personal agendas. It’s about creating something that touches the soul. Orlowski pitted honest, thoughtful storytelling against more traditional rock and pop arrangements to deliver his well received album, Believer, in 2014. Since its debut, the record has carried him through two national tours and a primetime television feature. ### Rocky Votolato Over the course of the last 15 years, Rocky Votolato has produced some of the most powerful music to come out of Seattle, an impressive canon anchored by earnest, lyrical songwriting, and delivered in a unique indie-folk-punk style that has evolved out of the Pacific Northwest music scene he was rai ## Pricing **Tuition:** $29