My Grand-Neice, CeCi, has been making up and singing songs since she was a toddler. She is now 9 years old. It does amaze me how strong her melodies are considering she doesn't have any training and doesn't play an instrument (although she is just starting to learn piano, but is not using it for songwriting, at least not yet).

I put together a video of our work flow...
She sings/records her song into an iPhone and emails it to me.
I then come up with the accompaniment using the BIAB DAW plugin inside of Reaper.
And, next time she is in town, we record her vocal with the accompaniment in my home studio.

This tune will be for her upcoming talent show.

Check it out:



Frank

Some tunes from me and my collaborator: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvGqM6ktMW5ltTnyit1KWPg/videos


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