Music For Kiddos Podcast
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What do you do when you run out of ideas? As a music therapist or music educator, I’m sure you can relate to this. We look for inspiration for our lesson plans. We gather ideas for new songs we want to write for our clients. We search for intervention ideas for music therapy sessions.
I will admit: I have this kind of constant fear that I'm going to run out of ideas.
Even though I have a massive resource library of about 325 songs & resources and I add about 12 to 14 new things to it every month (they’re released to my membership site only), I have this constant fear that I'm going to run out of ideas of what to write or create.
That’s why, over the last few years I've actually come up with concrete ways to come up with ideas. As a result of using this strategy, I’ve realized that there’s actually an endless supply of ideas.
The best way for me to come up with ideas
My preferred method for coming up with ideas is to just be curious about life, and to notice ideas and life around me. That could mean being curious about things I see on a children's television shows or something I see in nature, things that people are talking about or what kids are interested in.
The second best way I come up with ideas is letting people know that I'm looking for ideas so they can send them to me. In example, I encourage members of the Music For Kiddos Community to send me their thoughts, and ideas of things that they wish they could have (like needing a parachute or cabasa song, which happened recently!).
How do I find musical ideas?
I go in depth about my tips on finding musical ideas and how I organize them (which helps me write 12 to 14 songs a month!) on episode 20 of the Music For Kiddos Podcast.
Need some help with coming up with some song ideas?
Grab this “cheat sheet”, The Idea Generator
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