If you’re wondering why we recommend focusing on the melody first, there’s a couple of reasons: It’s easier (and more effective) to fit words into a melody than trying to fit a melody onto words. 'It's giving them an outlet to relate to people who've been through what they've been through. Now that you have the melody it’s time to work on and write the lyrics.
And I just kept going and they kept asking questions, right? So I would give like parents or their caregiver, like 'hey, a heads up, we had this conversation,'' said Carpenter. 'You just roll with what they're sharing and a lot of play, a lot of like, really gentle distractions.'Ĭarpenter says she was able to connect with students on a personal level, sharing how her brother died by suicide just last year. For this step, it can be helpful to work with an instrument like a piano or guitar, so you can come up with chords alongside the lyrics and melody. She says they were working with a particularly young group of kids, between the ages of six and 11. Now it’s time to start shaping your ideas into an actual song. 'There was a suicide of a young man and our team right away, we're like 'We're going to give these kids something really good,'' said Carpenter. The day the team arrived in the first community of Kuujjuaq, Carpenter notes they were greeted with terrible news. In Kuujjuaq the team that made the music video filmed around town.
