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Day Two Hundred Twenty Two (Year Two)

Y'know, it's funny.  After I admitted yesterday that I fell short in my attempt to write my album-in-a-month, I sat with the guitar for a bit longer before I headed to bed, and with the pressure off, I found the chord progression I had been searching for earlier in the evening.  I made a note of it, and then played it again this morning before work and, much to my surprise, it held up well.

Here's the thing: when I know the project is going to be shorter in nature, I start judging songs based on where they will fit in the order for the record.  It wasn't that I couldn't have made use of one of the other ideas I had figured out through the course of the month, it was more that I was going for a certain sound.  Now that I've found it, I am admittedly curious to sort through the rest of the song ideas I have for this and see what it is that comes next.

Maybe March will turn into a month of intense productivity across multiple projects: hard rock and solo, covers and practice, listening and reading.  I've never managed to find that perfect balance between all of those things, but every new month that comes along, I find myself hoping that maybe, just maybe, this will be the month that it all falls together.

And maybe it will.

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