If you are unable to attend this workshop in person, please note that it will NOT be streamed or re-distributed for later viewing. 

If you are a member and would like to attend and simply observe, you are more than welcome!
 

ABOUT AUTUMN BUYSSE:

Autumn Marie Buysse is a Nashville-based songwriter with over 250 released cuts spanning country, pop and K-pop. Upon graduating Belmont University’s songwriting program, she wrote a song called “Friendly Fire” about military suicide that won her the ASCAP Jay Gorney Award, the Bluebird Golden Pick Contest, the American Songwriter lyric competition, and then landed Autumn her current publishing deal with Bigger Picture Entertainment via Sony Music Publishing.

Since signing, Autumn’s written viral successes like “Me or the Dawn” by Tyler Braden, “Magical” by TWICE (#4 album on Billboard), “Icing” and “Thirsty” by Breland, “Secondhand Smoke” by Atlus, “Last One Standing” by Zoe Clark, “Hers Ain’t Mine” by Austin Brown, “Play It Safe” by Caleb Hearn, “Hate You The Least” by Kyle Hume, “In My Head” by Mae Muller, and “Delusional” by John Michael Howell.

Right now, her Emily Ann Roberts’ cut “Easy Does It” is spinning on The Highway. Within the first month, her K-pop outside cut “Magical” by TWICE has sold a million physical copies, and it’s now nominated for a Golden Disc Award. You can hear her songs synced on everything from “Fire Country” to “Love Island UK” to the NFL playoffs to the Netflix film “The Wrong Paris.”

In the past year, this Nashvillian has been on writing trips everywhere, from Sweden to London to South Korea.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE: 

You must be an NSAI Member to fully participate in pitch / feedback workshops.

Bring an MP3 version of your song that you can easily play from your phone, along with two lyric sheets for the song you chose. (Cassette tapes will not be accepted.)

*Members are more than welcome to attend and simply observe the event even if they do not want to submit a song for feedback!

We will play the first verse and first chorus of each song and the guest will provide comments/suggestions/feedback.

Up to 30 members can participate and will be played in order of arrival - Members traveling greater than 75 miles or 2 hours from Davidson County will be given priority to participate.*

If you arrive earlier than 5:00pm, please join the line on our covered porch on the Roy Acuff side of building. Once doors open at 5:00pm you will sign in and submit your lyrics sheets of the song you chose, to the receptionist for the event.

Song submission must be the original work of the Songwriter, and must not infringe upon the copyrights, rights of privacy, image or likeness, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity, or be otherwise contrary to applicable laws and regulations.  To the extent any generative or other forms of artificial intelligence was used in the creation of the song related to the submission, a detailed description of the scope of that use must be disclosed upon submission, for any NSAI-sponsored service or event.

*Please note, any songs containing generative AI content affecting the composition of the song will not qualify for any competition or merit-based recognition opportunities (i.e. Ones to Watch, NSAI Member Awards, Top 40, NSAI Song Contest, Chapter Challenge, live pitch, live feedback events, etc.) 

• To understand melody in music, think about some music you’re familiar with. If you were asked to hum it, what would that sound like? The part of the music that you’d hum is the melody.  According to: Hoffmanacademy.com
• Our policy speaks to the writing/creation of a song, not the production component.