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When it comes to songwriting, some of us love it, and others find it intimidating. If you feel like songwriting might not be for you, keep reading because I’m sharing three different tools that I use specifically when I write music for kids under the age of six.
Everybody has something that they're really good at, and for me, one of the things that I tend to be pretty good at is creating songs that are catchy and captivating to kids. When I am writing songs for kids, I play around with the different elements of music (the lyrics, the melody, the harmony, the rhythm, etc.) so that I can increase the time that a child is going to be able to pay attention to my music and therefore be helped by music according to their needs and/or goals, in a music education or music therapy setting.
Even though songwriting comes naturally to me and I am constantly writing new songs (I write about 10-12 original children songs that I share with the Community & newsletter subscribers), I don't want to give the impression that I am like able to just make every song that I write end up being catchy and really great for kids. The reality is that sometimes they don't work out and they just kind of end up in a vault. But what ends up happening is that I'm building this practice of writing. I'm building this practice of creativity and I have this consistency of my writing.
There are three things that tend to help me write new songs that are really captivating for kids:
Keep it simple
Add a little bit of silliness
Include some musical surprises
Those three things are absolutely central to helping me write captivating songs for kids. Want to learn a bit more about these three things and how they can help you write fun & engaging songs for kids? Tune in to episode 11 of the Music For Kiddos Podcast!
In this episode:
Hear about my songwriting process and how I write 10-12 original songs every month
I share the three things that help me write engaging + captivating songs for kids
You’ll listen to the movement song Whatcha Gonna Do?
If you're interested in more on movement songs, we have a mini-course called Movement Songs For Kiddos with 13 professionally recorded movement songs, backing tracks, the chords and the lyrics for each song, & a video that explains these three kinds of movement songs, how I might use them, and implementation tips for each one of them.
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