Before I say anything else tonight, I want to put this out there: I know I'm trying to write an album's worth of songs this month, but I'm not going to let that slow down work on my other goals this year. To that end, I worked (successfully) through the lesson on Travis-picking from the Acoustic Goldmine book.
That said, I sat down in the studio a couple of different times today in an attempt to get started working on these songs that I've got 28 days to finish. Seemingly like always when I sit down and start trying to write, I got a couple of things that I really liked, but they aren't anything close to completed songs. At best, they are mini-sketches of verses and choruses to come. My hope, at the end of this first day, is that these sketches will coalesce into something more.
I think what I struggled with the most today was the sound of everything. I like the progressions, I just went searching for the identity of the whole project through the sound of things (capo placement, chord construction, etc.), and I probably did that too early. Tomorrow and Monday, my plan is to just let things happen. Let the pieces fall where they may, and the sounds pile up however they see fit to. By the time I go back to work on Tuesday, though, I feel like I need to have some sense of where the first batch of ideas are heading.
That said, I sat down in the studio a couple of different times today in an attempt to get started working on these songs that I've got 28 days to finish. Seemingly like always when I sit down and start trying to write, I got a couple of things that I really liked, but they aren't anything close to completed songs. At best, they are mini-sketches of verses and choruses to come. My hope, at the end of this first day, is that these sketches will coalesce into something more.
I think what I struggled with the most today was the sound of everything. I like the progressions, I just went searching for the identity of the whole project through the sound of things (capo placement, chord construction, etc.), and I probably did that too early. Tomorrow and Monday, my plan is to just let things happen. Let the pieces fall where they may, and the sounds pile up however they see fit to. By the time I go back to work on Tuesday, though, I feel like I need to have some sense of where the first batch of ideas are heading.
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