I stumbled onto a fun little chord progression tonight in my playing after work. It's loosely based on something I came up with years and years ago, but this particular progression is darker in tone, and generally more interesting than the earlier one (which had a fun, ringing sort of tone). I'm not sure exactly where this is leading, if anywhere at all, but it seems like the basis for yet another progression that might be designed for the old band. Something about leaving that unfinished must still be haunting me...
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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