What is Cupcake Composing?

This four-week online course on Zoom will help you turn your favorite improvisations into a composition.

Space is limited to 6 composers to keep a warm and intimate community.

When you make your purchase, your seat is saved!

The course is based on the free Cupcake Improv available at LeilaViss.com

Relax—no prior improvisation or composition is required!

General Overview

Content

• Choose a favorite Cupcake Improv combo and create an ABA piece with an intro and outro.

• Discover fresh ways to plan and design it.

• Receive feedforward throughout the creative process.

• Notate the original piece in Noteflight.

• Create cover art in Canva.

• Learn how to guide and nurture creatives in your studio.

Outcomes

• Generate a notated copy and cover art.

• Apply what you learn to another composition.

• Nurture your creativity.

• Discover how to help your students along their creative process.

Cupcake Composing Dates and Times

Classes are on Thursdays at 10:00 AM MST. Here’s what time that is for you.

• Denver, USA Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 10:00 am MDT

• Sydney, Australia Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 2:00 am AEST

• London, United Kingdom Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 5:00 pm BST

• Singapore, Singapore Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 12:00 midn SGT

• Japan Standard Time, JST Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 1:00 am JST

• New Zealand Standard Time, NZST Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 4:00 am NZST

• New York, USA Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 12:00 noon EDT

• Chicago, USA Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 11:00 am CDT

• Los Angeles, USA Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 9:00 am PDT

Cupcake Composing Course Syllabus

Learn how to take simple improvisation ingredients and blend them into a beautiful composition!

Pre-Class Preparation

Watch the Maximizing Noteflight Training video to learn about Noteflight features.

June 5

Explore ways to develop a section A and notate it in Noteflight.

June 12

Explore ways to develop section B.

Discover ideas to amplify section A.

June 19

Discover how to design an Intro and Outro.

See how to export your notated composition from Notelight.

Learn how to create and add a cover in Canva.

June 26

Wrap up your masterpiece with professional-looking formatting touches

Enjoy the Big Reveal as everyone shares their finished compositions!