The funniest part about this whole hard rock band thing, was that it all started out on acoustic. We would sit in the living room (and later in the back room with the studio) with acoustics, and trade chords and ideas back and forth until something clicked. It usually did, and it was almost always based around the weirdest chord we could find. Because, if you could take some off the wall sounding chord and make a progression out of it, then subconsciously it would be cool. I like to think I've got a pretty good ear for radio, and while a lot of our old demos were extremely rough around the edges, they had some potential. In a real studio, with drums and bass behind them, they could've made a pretty good record. I thought that then, I think it now. It's why I sat down with the acoustic today, and tried to find a way to flesh out the progression I got the other night. I made a little progress, but I think what needs to happen first is a going through of the old demos, just to see where anything new might fit in. Should be interesting.
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...
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