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Day One Hundred Ninety Six (Year Four)

Tonight was more productive than I thought it would be when I started out.  When I finally gave up the ghost on last night's writing session, I found myself stuck in that odd spot of writing my way into the middle of a song and then getting stuck for inspiration.  That was all well and good for the first few days of the album-in-a-month project, when just getting the sketches down was solid progress.  The only downfall now is this: going into last night's studio time, I had the music for four songs finished.  In short, I had gained some confidence in three days, and things were seeming easier.  I had gotten to the point where a part of a song wasn't feeling like quite enough.  This is what happens, apparently, when there's one day where all the pieces fall together in the right order and I end up finishing music for three songs.

So, while what felt initially like failure last night was really (and rightly) observed as success by the time I got around to posting yesterday, I knew that I was starting out the day today at roughly 4.5 songs instead of 5.  The ironic part, for me anyway, is that I got the chorus finished for last night's song during tonight's session, and then I got the next one started but (again) not finished.  So much like last night, I ended tonight on the half.  The only difference is that now I'm at 5.5 instead of 6.  Still great progress by any means, but it bugs me just a bit that I wasn't able to finish off the rest of the music for my 6th song.

Secretly, I'm hoping that I can finish the music on an average of 1/day, so that halfway through the month, I can start worrying about lyrics and arrangements and all that jazz that will likely take longer to complete.

One of the other cool parts about all this songwriting?  I'm working through some of the lessons in that Acoustic Goldmine book on my own terms, and also fortifying some of the earlier lessons with the work that I'm doing.

With good days tomorrow and Friday, the weekend could shape up to be epic.
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