GAYA MARINA GARBARUK

I WRITE SONGS AND TEACH OTHERS HOW TO DO IT BEST


Private lessons / Lyric doctoring / Collaborations / For hire
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Money Race, lyrics by me
Song feedback: 30 songs
What I do
  • Teach songwriting
    For people with various levels of preparation: from beginners and amateurs to experienced professionals. Guest lecturer at Levi's Music Project and Moscow Music School
  • Private sessions
    Portfolio reviews, private consultations and one-on-one work as a mentor or co-writer. I can analyze one of your songs and give you tools for you to re-work it with or coach/teach you on a regular basis
  • Lyric doctoring
    I help to make songs and lyrics better — depending on what you need: minimally involved, fixing grammatical errors, tightening up lyrics/melodies, finding more poetic or more concise ways to say what you're trying to. Or re-writing lyrics, coming up with new concepts and writing out the lyric to fit the existing melodies, or significantly altering sections of or the entire song — to best cater to the story and the feeling you're aiming to convey
  • Topliner and songwriter for hire
    I write lyrics + melodies to your beat, or an entire song to the chord progression of my creation, keeping in mind your references, or without them. I am great at talking to artists, finding topics and stories, that are important for them, and making songs about it.
  • A&R + artist development
    I consult artists on how to pick better songs that would be consistent with their image and core values, figure out what songs would help to speak their truth through their artistic persona — what they are all about, what they want to sing about and how to create / find such songs
  • Writing articles and blog posts
    I write and publish articles for songwriters on my webpage, as well as my telegram channel NERD POP — reflecting on different aspects of music, pop culture and new music
Testimonials
Программы обучения
Успешно прошли более 300 человек
"Сонграйтинг 101" — это основной курс, систематизирующий все, что нужно знать авторам песен: от идеи до содержания, от сторителлинга и драматургии — до управления длиной, количеством строк и их ритмом, типов рифм. На базе лучших американских методик, адаптированных под реалии русского языка, и собственного 15-летнего опыта.
4 недели практических заданий на отработку навыков, необходимых авторам песен — от творческого письма и упражнений на рефлексию, до оттачивания конкретных технических навыков (рифм, укладывания слов в ритмическую фразу) и ежевечерних импровизаций. Помогает запустить и организовать творческий поток.
Неделя с англоязычными хитами: разбираем почему эти песни работают, как они написаны, какие приемы используют — и какие из них мы можем взять себе. Говорим о смыслах, драматургии, схемах рифм и обо всех нюансах. Идеальное дополнение к базовому курсу. Нужно базовое знание английского (понимать тексты).
Bio
Gaya Marina Garbaruk - singer-songwriter, linguist, translator. She has been writing songs since the age of 16 — in English and Russian. She completed the songwriting course from the Berklee College of Music (2013) and seminars by Berklee professor of songwriting and poetry Pat Pattison (2020). Participant of the PSV Bootcamp 2021 and 2022 (supported by Songwriters Camps, University of California UCLA) — a collaborative program for American and Russian songwriters and producers to work together and create tracks for sync, film and computer games. Co-wrote the official anthem for the Mexican EDM-festival "Droom". Pioneered teaching songwriting in the CIS-countries.

In 3 years of teaching, she has shared her method with over 400 people of various levels , including Top-artists and celebrities in the CIS-countries. IOWA, LSP, Jukebox Trio, participants of The Voice of Russia, ФРУКТbl, Lizer, Young Adults, Leeloo and many others.

Participated in MTV's «Casa Musica» (2016) — a competition for independent singer-songwriters.

Автор лекций и телеграм-канала «ЗАДРОТПОП» о написании песен как науке. Выступала экспертом по популярной музыке в программе Михаила Козырева на телеканале Дождь и на радио "Серебряный дождь" у Мари Армас.

Работала с Владом Топаловым (менеджмент, A&R, соавтор песен), группой Кватро, певицей ЛАИА, группой Therr Maitz (менеджмент), продюсировала трибьют-альбом «Лермонтов 200 по встречной», на котором также выпустила собственную песню на стихи поэта, работала с фестивалями «Усадьба Jazz» и «Пикник Афиши».

MGIMO graduate with international -международник с дипломом МГИМО и медиапродюсер. Speaks English, German and Spanish. Has written articles for The Village ( Billie Eilish; Ed Sheeran; Аriana Grande), Institute for Music Initiatives (where to learn how to sing), makes playlists for SALT Magazine.

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Больше - в интервью Colta.ru

My teaching philosophy is to give a map and give tools to be able to read it, so that the student could understand where they are, where they want to get and what different ways they might want to choose and have fun in the process.

Our tools are coming up with the content (idea, concept, the title), communicating it efficiently (storytelling, logic, consistency of the narrative), as well as using the shape and technical parameters to work best for this particular song and story. These are the number, length and rhythm of line, and types and rhyme schemes.

We work with the language, meanings, sounds and with how comfortable the audience would be with listening to the song and understanding its meaning from the very first listen.

What's important for a songwriting teacher
(for Moscow Music School)
I talk about the major things, including the ability to think and continuously evolve by yourself

Свидетельство об успешном прохождении летних семинаров Пэта Пэттисона, профессора Беркли, 2020
Songwriting is like surfing. It needs the balance of the good wave and your being in shape and ready. Sometimes the waves are there and we're unable to ride them. Sometimes we're in our top form but the ocean is still.

We are able to improve our technical writing skills without inspiration so that when the moment comes, we could fully enjoy riding the creative wave, have fun and make it look good.
Полезные материалы
Сонграйтерское золото. Перевод выступления в Сингапуре, 2011
Сонграйтерское золото - 2. Лекция в университете Лойлола, 2012
10 cамых интересных историй: как начинала, про Джастина Бибера и Селену Гомез, как стала артистом
Секретами делится автор и исполнитель "Drivers Licence", первого большого хита 2021
Опубликовано в The Village в апреле 2019. Текст прочли более 130 000 человек
Опубликовано в The Village в июле 2019 — в преддверии концерта в Москве
Programs that I developed
Best methods and analyzing popular songs
Theory and practice, lyric-focused
4 weeks of practical assignments, proven results

Live On-Air interview about Billie Eilish on TV Rain
Интервью Михаилу Козыреву
в программе БИКОЗ на телеканале "Дождь"
О семье, творческом процессе и работе с братом Финнеасом, и первой влюбленности в кумира Джастина Бибера. Март 2021
Что на самом деле происходит с главной поп-звездой нулевых, февраль 2021

Main skills for songwriters (for Moscow Music School)
Practical skills (for Moscow Music School)
Top-3 Russian songwriters
Top-3 global songwriters
Instagram Live with LSP — оn writing songs
Live on «Silver Rain» with Mari Armas — and the students of Levi's® Music Project (September 2020)
Свидетельство об успешном прохождении SongWriter Camps, 2021. Менторы — мультиплатиновые сонграйтеры Пэм Шейн (автор "Genie In A Bottle" Кристины Агилеры) и Ричард Харрис. Приглашенные наставники — Лиза Харрингтон и Джош Бартоломью (номинанты Грэмми на песню к фильму "Лего"), Шари Шорт (автор песен Майли Сайрус и Деми Ловато) и Симоне Беньякар (композитор для кино)
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