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Day Three Hundred Fifty Four (Year Six)

Today was the first day that I've felt like I could really relax into the house since we moved.  There is still work to be done (and a looping pedal to find), but for the most part, all of the rooms are at least set up and organized enough that I can walk into them without feeling like I have to do something related to organizing or sorting.

That being the case, I feel like today was the first real day of my time to focus on music (and writing and grad school).  With that in mind, I went back to the list of goals for the rest of the year that I had started on or around the 1st of July.  Right at the top of the list was the following:

Finish Writing & Recording:  EP, Power Pop Record, Double Album

In the spirit of honesty, the "Double Album" one had a question mark next to it, mostly because I wasn't sure, on the 1st, what I would be able to get done by the end of December.

It made sense to me to start with the shortest project, and just start by seeing what I had taken for notes on the tracks, listen to the tracks themselves, and then see if I agreed with my earlier thoughts.  Right now, I'm seeing the EP as 4 songs.  The music for them is at least roughed out, and (now) burned onto a CD, so that I can take it with me tomorrow when I've got some running to do.  My hope with that is that I'll either start to get some lyric ideas, or that I'll be able to hear where the weak points are in the music, and figure out what (if any) changes need to be made.

There wasn't as much time tonight as I would have liked there to be, but I definitely made the most of the time I had in the studio tonight.  I'm hoping that I can start evaluating the power pop ideas later in the week.  Those will need a bit more work, I suspect.

It finally feels like things are getting started!
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