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Day One Hundred Eighty Four (Year Three)

Here's what finally dawned on me today...

One of the things that happens when you don't do something for a period of time (write songs, for example), is that you tend to lose confidence, not in your ability to do what it is you're trying to do, but more-so to pull off what you hope for in your head.  Then you don't take chances, and your process gets rusty and you end up with something that doesn't meet your imagined hopes and dreams.

Take, for example, the progression I've been working on this month.  There are parts of it that I really love, parts of it that are perfectly average, and parts that I'm really not sure about right now.  And with a week to go in the month, that's not a good place for me to be. 

Could I have done things differently this month?  Absolutely.  Could I have picked another progression that I have that's more of a finished product?  Absolutely.  Could I not have thought about the fact that I want to record the first thing I'll hear on the finished product first?  Again, Absolutely.  And still, I find myself here, with a dynamite intro riff, a bass part I'm happy with so far, some pretty standard verse chords, and a really dodgy chorus at the moment.  And no lyrics to speak of.  All with a week to go!  

Don't get me wrong, I'm not panicking... well, not entirely, because here's what I know:

1) The song will come together.

2) The problem, in general, isn't with this song.  The problem is that I'm not working on enough songs.  If I was, I'd be better at finishing off progressions and spotting pitfalls along the way.

This is going to happen.  Mark my words.

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