Sat down tonight and dragged out the circle of fifths. I'm going to run through each key, and write down the highlights (sharps and flats, tonic, dominant, sub-dominant, relative minor) for each one, and then have a mini-fretboard underneath with the notes for that key circled. Then, off of that, I'm going to lay the scales over the top of it, as a way to help with visualization. That way, if I have something solid to refer back to (that I've also created), I'll have what amounts to a double reference point.
Today was the first official day of the second half of my "album-in-a-month" challenge. As for today's goals, I wanted to see what I could get done in regards to track order, and get at least a little bit of a start on the lyric writing process. I spent more time working on the track order question than I did on the lyrics today, but as a result of that, I ended up with something that I think will work in terms of order. I did sit with the notebook for a few minutes at the very end of the day, and got a solid starting line of lyric and some other ideas that I hope will be jumping off points for lyrics. What I'm thinking I might do, however, is switch my focus from the lyric writing part of the process directly to the recording part of the process. That way, if I can get the music recorded and burned onto a CD, I can take the music with me in the car, and listen and try to see what images and thoughts the music brings up. It's a tactic that has worked for...
Keep it up!!
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