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Meet Your Instructor: Mariah Carey
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With 19 No. 1 records and five Grammy Awards, your new instructor is Billboard’s “Greatest Female Artist of All Time.” Mariah welcomes you to her class and gives you a first look at her newest project, the Butterfly Lounge.
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Producing with Your Voice
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Learn how Mariah makes music: by using her voice, communicating with melody, and collaborating with other musicians. Mariah begins to reimagine “The Roof” with a string quartet.
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Lyricism: Write About the Realness
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Like any good storyteller, songwriters can use their personal experiences as inspiration. In this lesson, Mariah delves into song studies and reveals the origins behind two of her most personal songs: “Outside” and “Sunflowers for Alfred Roy.”
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Writing with Samples
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Mariah’s work is the blueprint for today’s pop music. In this lesson, learn how she uses samples as building blocks for original songs. She also shares how Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones, Part II” inspired her writing of “The Roof.”
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Background Vocals, Part 1
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Mariah shares her love for the underappreciated art of background vocals and revisits the backgrounds for “The Roof” with Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter Brandy in the Butterfly Lounge.
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Background Vocals, Part 2
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Mariah breaks down key elements of her process as she continues her recording session with Brandy. Then she combines the new background vocals with the string quartet session.
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Instrumentation and Emotion
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Lyrics aren’t the only way to communicate with listeners. Working with the string ensemble, Mariah demonstrates how instrumentation can express emotion—in this case, love and longing, or “the misery,” as she calls it.
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Taking Care of Your Voice
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As an instrument, the voice needs to be maintained and can be strengthened over time. Mariah covers mental preparation, humidity, and vocal rest. She also shares how vocal nodules helped her reach the whistle register.
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Surviving in the Music Industry
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Mariah reflects on her journey as a musical artist, and she provides tips for navigating the industry and maintaining creative control. She also reveals the full version of “The Roof,” created during her class.
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Amanda Gorman Teaches Writing and Performing Poetry
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An introduction to poet Amanda Gorman, beyond her iconic reading of “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 inauguration. Amanda is the first National Youth Poet Laureate and has written three bestselling books.
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Everyone Can Write Poetry
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Amanda broadens the concept of who can be a poet and what topics poetry can cover.
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Before Writing, Read
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This lesson emphasizes the importance of reading to formulate your own poetic voice and build a reservoir of references.
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Case Study: Close Reading - “On The Pulse of Morning”
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Amanda offers an example of how to use the practice of close reading in poetry.
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How to Start Writing
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This lesson includes tips and tools to overcome obstacles so that you can begin the writing process.
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Researching Your Poem
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Amanda teaches the fundamentals of how to approach and conduct research for poetry writing.
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Case Study: Brainstorming Plummer
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This in-depth lesson uses Amanda’s personal journals to show how she brainstormed portions of her newly published book, Call Us What We Carry.
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The Writing Toolkit
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Amanda teaches you some of the key rhetorical tools that lead to powerful poetic writing.
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Finding Your Unique Poetic Voice
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Amanda defines what a poetic voice is, how to find your own, and how it works as the “calling card” of a poet.
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Revision, Revision, Revision
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Amanda goes through the step-by-step process of poetry revision and completion.
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Case Study: Editing & Revision
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In this in-depth lesson, Amanda demonstrates poetry editing and revision with an on-set revision of a student’s poem.
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Before Performing, Watch
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Amanda discusses her performance role models—people like Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis and Beyoncé—and how inspiration from others’ performances can be applied to your own.
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The Performance Toolkit
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Amanda teaches various tools to bring out your best poetic performance.
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Case Study: Performance of Poetry
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Amanda gives an in-depth lesson on poetry performance with a guided walk-through performance of a student’s poem.
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Building Your Career as a Poet
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Amanda gives advice on how you can help build a community of poets and find ways to grow your career—no matter where you live.
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Breakthrough: Behind the Scenes of “The Hill We Climb”
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Amanda breaks down the behind-the-scenes elements of her famous performance at the 2021 presidential inauguration.

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