Tonight was big. I started from the beginning of "Stairway," and went all the way through each section (without repeats for the verses at this point) INCLUDING the solo. I did it slowly, but I did it, and as an added bonus, the triplets at the very end (the upper register ones) finally clicked with me! It feels good to be making progress on this thing. Granted, it could have happened so much faster, but I'll take progress at any speed. I've still got to get the timing down right where the solo is concerned, but that'll just be a matter of sitting with both the guitar trainer AND the video lesson I have and just hammering it out. All in all, a pretty good day music-wise.
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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