Dad's in town today. That equates to not a ton of time in the studio. It also means a trip to the bookstore, where I found something cool.
I picked up a book called The Art Of Noise by a Brit named Daniel Rachel. He interviews 27 British songwriters from 1962 up until the present day on the way they go about their craft. It looked too fascinating not to get, so I did. And then I got it home, and the introduction referenced Paul Zollo's book Songwriters On Songwriting, which looks at things from the American perspective. Now, I could have sworn that I had a copy of Zollo's book somewhere in my collection, although at present it is nowhere to be found. Might have to order a copy and read them one after the other. Because I can never get enough good books on music.
Either way, it seems as if things lately have been trying to get me fired up about songwriting.
So, it goes without saying that the playing I did tonight was acoustic in nature, and was done with a bent towards getting a bit of work done on the songwriting side of things.
All told, it was a really good Saturday.
I picked up a book called The Art Of Noise by a Brit named Daniel Rachel. He interviews 27 British songwriters from 1962 up until the present day on the way they go about their craft. It looked too fascinating not to get, so I did. And then I got it home, and the introduction referenced Paul Zollo's book Songwriters On Songwriting, which looks at things from the American perspective. Now, I could have sworn that I had a copy of Zollo's book somewhere in my collection, although at present it is nowhere to be found. Might have to order a copy and read them one after the other. Because I can never get enough good books on music.
Either way, it seems as if things lately have been trying to get me fired up about songwriting.
So, it goes without saying that the playing I did tonight was acoustic in nature, and was done with a bent towards getting a bit of work done on the songwriting side of things.
All told, it was a really good Saturday.
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