Okay, so the only thing I really felt like I had to get done today, music-wise, was to find fifteen minutes of quiet to sit down and just get back to writing. I wasn't even all that worried about it being in a lyrical format, I just knew that I had to get something down on the page. Now, in my head, this involved me sitting down with a notebook and pen and just blocking out the world for a quarter of an hour (if not longer).
In the end, it was exactly fifteen minutes, it happened at the very end of the night (after the rest of the house had gone quiet for the day), and it ended up typed instead of hand written. So much for things going the way I had pictured them.
Oh yeah, and then there's the fact that, while it started out as something that I could go back and pull lyrical inspiration from, it very quickly turned into something more approaching a blog post, and it was very much centered on what I'd still like to try and get done by the end of the year. There were a few things in there that surprised me, and so I'd like to put some of it here, just so it's out in the world somewhere... because maybe that will help hold me accountable. So anyway...
So many things I want to get done this year still. I really want to do some serious recording, instead of just dropping down a riff or a chord progression here and there and calling it good. I would deeply love to pull a complete inventory of all of the ideas, both written and recorded, get them all into one giant file, and then just see where it leads me. Some of that has already been done, of course, what with the dividing up of song ideas into the three projects: EP, Power Pop Record, and Double Album. I’m pretty sure that the music for the EP and maybe the Power Pop record could be finished by the end of the year, if I can focus long enough to get in some decent work on them. It’s the third one that I’m not sure about. And yet, it’s also the third one that I most want to set to work on. The problem, in my head at least, is this: double albums are made by bands, and I am but one person living in a town that has six hundred people and no stoplights. Could I do it? Absolutely I could. If I could find a way to make the drums/percussion not sound like complete crap. I know the music would be there. I’ve felt it there for a long time. I just need to sit down and pull it out of me. As for the lyrics… they would be there too, if I sat down and worked on them. That (in theory) is what this is supposed to be the start of. A bit of free-writing that maybe turned into something approaching a blog post. Getting back into the mode of writing, and then seeing what jumps out for lyrical consideration seemed like a good step for that. Soon enough, the writing won’t be a problem (NaNoWriMo starts in two weeks), but that is going to be a different project entirely, so yeah).
In the end, it was exactly fifteen minutes, it happened at the very end of the night (after the rest of the house had gone quiet for the day), and it ended up typed instead of hand written. So much for things going the way I had pictured them.
Oh yeah, and then there's the fact that, while it started out as something that I could go back and pull lyrical inspiration from, it very quickly turned into something more approaching a blog post, and it was very much centered on what I'd still like to try and get done by the end of the year. There were a few things in there that surprised me, and so I'd like to put some of it here, just so it's out in the world somewhere... because maybe that will help hold me accountable. So anyway...
So many things I want to get done this year still. I really want to do some serious recording, instead of just dropping down a riff or a chord progression here and there and calling it good. I would deeply love to pull a complete inventory of all of the ideas, both written and recorded, get them all into one giant file, and then just see where it leads me. Some of that has already been done, of course, what with the dividing up of song ideas into the three projects: EP, Power Pop Record, and Double Album. I’m pretty sure that the music for the EP and maybe the Power Pop record could be finished by the end of the year, if I can focus long enough to get in some decent work on them. It’s the third one that I’m not sure about. And yet, it’s also the third one that I most want to set to work on. The problem, in my head at least, is this: double albums are made by bands, and I am but one person living in a town that has six hundred people and no stoplights. Could I do it? Absolutely I could. If I could find a way to make the drums/percussion not sound like complete crap. I know the music would be there. I’ve felt it there for a long time. I just need to sit down and pull it out of me. As for the lyrics… they would be there too, if I sat down and worked on them. That (in theory) is what this is supposed to be the start of. A bit of free-writing that maybe turned into something approaching a blog post. Getting back into the mode of writing, and then seeing what jumps out for lyrical consideration seemed like a good step for that. Soon enough, the writing won’t be a problem (NaNoWriMo starts in two weeks), but that is going to be a different project entirely, so yeah).
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