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Day One Hundred Ninety Three (Year Four)

Day #2 of my album in a month challenge went okay.  I got the first song blocked out today, and I got another sketch of a verse or a chorus that I really liked the sound of.

In my spirit of using all of the tools available to me, I sat down this afternoon with FAWM's website, and went through one of their tools that provides help when it comes to song structure (verse-chrous, etc.).  Basically, if you hit a button, you get a new song structure.  I played around with that until I found 14 of them that I either liked the flow of, or thought looked like fun to try and write.  I'm not saying that I'll use them all, or that all of them will wind up making the final record, but if nothing else, it was a way to get me thinking objectively about song structure and where my sketches might fit into that picture.

I also know the chord progression/sound that will open the record.  I'm not going to do anything crazy, like try to write it in order or anything, I just felt like it helped to know the first thing I want to hear when it's done.

Tomorrow is going to be the first huge day in this process for me.  I need to take at least two (maybe more) of these sketches, and turn them into full-blown songs.  I'm not necessarily worried about lyrics yet, but if they were to start showing up, I'd be okay with that.  For tomorrow, I really just need the chord progressions or the melody lines (or both) to start falling into place as complete things.  I'd stay up later tonight and try to work on them, but I'm at the point where I feel like the best thing for me is a decent night's sleep.  That way, I can hit it early tomorrow, and try to get a good session in during the morning, followed by another one either tomorrow afternoon or evening.
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