We started on a new song, so, when talking about her new idea for our song, I had Ella put it into our song mapping formula:
1. Idea: Her idea was she wanted to write a song about how she is too young for some things, too old for others, and she feels like she is stuck in the middle. That she sees people all the time that are her age doing awesome things that seem so unattainable for her.
2. Phrase: Too young for some things, too told for others.
3. Story/clarify: (here she decided to drop the last part of her idea and just focus on the things that she is stuck in the middle of)
4. Hook: "too not that", "too old for fairytales", "not now", "until then", "when i grow up"
From here i had Ella make a list of things she felt too old for and things she felt too young for - concrete things we could use in our song.
Then - we went to our writing station (or went to the other side of the room where my instruments are), and i started playing a chord progression. After playing it several times, Ella started humming a tune. At first she wouldn't even hum it loud enough for me to sing because I was making her do it all on her own (which is extremely hard). But, then, she started humming and "da-da"ing this AWESOME melody that she could hear in her head!!!
From there - we started adding words to the cadence, moved around some phrasing, and came up with a second melody that went with the first so that we could have 2 parts to our verse.
Ella CRUSHED!!!! I told her the rule is that she is not allowed to be self conscious with me. Because duh. She's awesome!! And the more we practice this crazy hard things - the better she is getting at them!!!
I want to make sure that with each new song that we write, that Ella is applying what she has learned in previous lessons, improving, and moving closer and closer to being 100% confident in writing songs by herself!
Another part that was so awesome today was when Ella was writing lyrics - her brain has made a major switch. Her thoughts are simple but thought provoking (instead of too explicit or too poetic/complicated). She is thinking more with our simple lyric techniques! Wow. I was so proud!