The company's gone now, so after work tonight, I sat down with the Strat and tried to get my fingers back in shape. Having played only sporadically in the last few days, it was nice to get back to the routine. I dragged out the tabs that came with one of my Guitar World DVDs (something to do with lead playing), and used that to get my fingers used to moving again. I also messed around (more in theory than in actual practice) with "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" by The Georgia Satellites, one of the tunes I wound up with in the music I got from my company. I always have loved that song.
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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