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Day One Hundred Ninety Nine (Year Four)

So, after playing through everything I had for the album-in-a-month project last night, just to see how I sat with everything, I took it a step further tonight.  The first thing I did when I got into the studio this evening was to lay everything out on a single page.  All of the sketches, the verses and the choruses, just to see if looking at what I have would offer me any thoughts as to what might still be missing.  It felt good to see all 8 ideas laid out, one after the other, and it got me to sit down and consider the one sketch I started kicking around last night, but held off committing to paper, because somehow it just wasn't quite clear enough yet.

The extra twenty four hours must have done some good, because I got at least some of that idea fleshed out and written down.  In the process, I also stumbled onto another, brand new sketch that I like even better than the one I started out with.  If both of those end up working out, that would take me up to 10.

The other nice thing about getting a chance to look at everything all at once is that it allowed me to see that there are a couple of ideas that sound somewhat similar in nature.  Not sure if I'm going to have to pick between one or the other for the final project in those instances, or whether I'll be okay so long as I give them enough distance in the final running order of the record.  That will be one of the interesting challenges of the next few weeks, seeing the structure the project starts to take.

The other thing I've noticed in the last couple of days is that, while I said early on this week that I knew the sound I heard opening the record, I'm not sure that I've written anything but the intro for that particular song yet.

That said, for a day when I got into the studio a lot later in the day than I had originally planned, things went well today.  Hopefully the rest of the weekend is just as productive.


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