Another night of sitting with the guitar, trying to find something for the record-in-a-month. I had some success again tonight, finding something that will be cool, but it feels as if it might need one more chord to make the verses complete.
Finding the chords has never been a serious problem for me. Finding a way to put them together, on the other hand, has sometimes been a bit tougher. It comes down, I think, to an issue of craftsmanship in instances like that. What that means for me, I guess, is that I need to become a better craftsman. I need to write more songs. For whatever project they end up fitting into. Or simply for the sake of the song. They don't even have to be associated with anything in particular.
I remember seeing a news story a few years back about a guy who wrote a song a day for a year. I can't find the story I saw at the moment, but there are more instances of this sort of thing out there than I expected there would be. It would be an interesting thing to try someday. And I bet it would help with my lyric writing too, don't you think?
Sometimes I find myself listing off all these things that would be cool to try, or things that I ought to do/learn/work on, and it gives me pause to wonder: if I went back to the very beginning of the blog, and made a list of all the things I said I needed/wanted to work on, learn, create, or do, how long of a list I would have at the end of that process? And as a follow up question, how would I be doing in regards to all of those things?
More tomorrow.
Finding the chords has never been a serious problem for me. Finding a way to put them together, on the other hand, has sometimes been a bit tougher. It comes down, I think, to an issue of craftsmanship in instances like that. What that means for me, I guess, is that I need to become a better craftsman. I need to write more songs. For whatever project they end up fitting into. Or simply for the sake of the song. They don't even have to be associated with anything in particular.
I remember seeing a news story a few years back about a guy who wrote a song a day for a year. I can't find the story I saw at the moment, but there are more instances of this sort of thing out there than I expected there would be. It would be an interesting thing to try someday. And I bet it would help with my lyric writing too, don't you think?
Sometimes I find myself listing off all these things that would be cool to try, or things that I ought to do/learn/work on, and it gives me pause to wonder: if I went back to the very beginning of the blog, and made a list of all the things I said I needed/wanted to work on, learn, create, or do, how long of a list I would have at the end of that process? And as a follow up question, how would I be doing in regards to all of those things?
More tomorrow.
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