With Kids and For Kids
I’ve had the great pleasure to write songs for kids and with kids. The lyrics to the song below with the (*) have been written 100% by kids as a special collaboration project. To learn more, please contact me!
Jaromey Bananas
Jaromey Bananas is Jerome’s YouTube channel, featuring songs for young humans. Jaromey is a funny monkey who likes to share educational and fun songs with his friends. The Jaromey Bananas channel is a place where kids can learn about numbers, counting, letters, shapes as well as emotions and feelings. There are also songs for movement, silly songs perfect for dancing and fun.
Song Form Song
Every spring for the last 10, I’ve collaborated with 2nd graders to write songs. They provide ideas about a character trait or something fact-based, I turn their ideas into lyrics, then add music. Once it’s finished they work with their music teacher to learn the song. The physical distancing situation that we’ve been in for the last year has meant that this project was in jeopardy of happening at all. But when there’s a will… let’s just say we figured a bunch of workarounds!
During the first session of our songwriting workshop I teach about pop song form. This year I made a video! I formalized it a little more than usual. Here is the “Song Form Song”. I used the 80s rock ballad genre (of course) for the music.