Was supposed to have the day off today, and was looking forward to spending a lot of the day either moving furniture around or playing in the studio... okay, so I was going to be in the studio all day long; first getting that bookshelf in the right place, and then working on the record. Got called in to work today, though, as someone was ill. That lessened my time in the studio, but I still got the bookshelf properly situated and the card table moved out. There's so much more floor space in there now, I almost can't believe it.
Got down to working on the album-in-a-month after moving furniture around, and discovered that my statement from Saturday night about having the very first notes of the record, but not the song they go along with isn't quite accurate. After working on that dilemma for a while, I am now convinced that I've got the song idea for it already written.
This brings me to a couple of things:
1) I think I really, really need to have the music for the record finished by Friday night/Saturday. Friday night will be the halfway point of the month, and if I'm going to stand any chance of getting lyrics written and things recorded by the 28th, it just feels like the music needs to be done come this weekend. That's not to say that there won't be some tweaks and re-writes between now and the end of the month, just that I need to have some idea about how the whole thing will shape up by the time I sleep on Valentine's Day.
2) Considering all of that, and the fact that I've got the song for the intro that I want to lead off the record, I'm starting to get at least a little bit of a feel for the way the record is going to lay itself out. There are still some big holes in my track order (which there should be, considering I've got 4 more songs to write), but I can hear at least the first two tracks in my head for one of the potential running orders.
All of that said, I'm feeling just a little bit behind on the project for the first time all month. Tomorrow feels like it might just be another pretty big "put up or shut up" day.
Got down to working on the album-in-a-month after moving furniture around, and discovered that my statement from Saturday night about having the very first notes of the record, but not the song they go along with isn't quite accurate. After working on that dilemma for a while, I am now convinced that I've got the song idea for it already written.
This brings me to a couple of things:
1) I think I really, really need to have the music for the record finished by Friday night/Saturday. Friday night will be the halfway point of the month, and if I'm going to stand any chance of getting lyrics written and things recorded by the 28th, it just feels like the music needs to be done come this weekend. That's not to say that there won't be some tweaks and re-writes between now and the end of the month, just that I need to have some idea about how the whole thing will shape up by the time I sleep on Valentine's Day.
2) Considering all of that, and the fact that I've got the song for the intro that I want to lead off the record, I'm starting to get at least a little bit of a feel for the way the record is going to lay itself out. There are still some big holes in my track order (which there should be, considering I've got 4 more songs to write), but I can hear at least the first two tracks in my head for one of the potential running orders.
All of that said, I'm feeling just a little bit behind on the project for the first time all month. Tomorrow feels like it might just be another pretty big "put up or shut up" day.
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