This is proving to be harder than I expected. If you’ve been following along, when we last left off I decided not to force creativity in order to create better music. So what’s happened since? Despite the hustle and bustle of moving into a new house — preparing, packing, moving, and unpacking — I continued … Continue reading Project LP Update #4
I’ve had this guitar part I’ve been thinking about for a few months now. Every time I sit down I return to it, but I didn’t know where to go with it. So I spent some time working with it the other night. Playing it over and over. Trying out various chord progressions with it, … Continue reading Nothing To Declare (demo)
I’m nearly 3 months into the year and not as far along as I was hoping to be. Momentum was strong during January with the excitement of setting a new goal. I got about three or four solid starts to songs without lyrics. Then I lost steam for a while. I’ve done some reflecting over … Continue reading Project LP: Week 10
The first week of the road to releasing an album has been moderately productive. It started with a lot of internal struggle about what style of music I want this record to be. While punk and pop-punk has always been my first love, I also want to push myself out of my comfort zone a … Continue reading Project LP: Week 1
I’ve decided to set a goal for 2018 to officially write, record, and release an album. The best way for me to help achieve this goal is to document my progress. So step one is to set some constraints and ground rules. 1. It should consist of recently written music I’ve been writing music, more … Continue reading Project LP
It’s been a while since I wrote any music. Not that I haven’t wanted to, it just fell out of priorities with some other things in my life and work. Then the inspiration and drive to do it faded over time. Because it’s been so long, it was really tough to get back into it. … Continue reading Unglued (Demo)
While mowing the lawn a few days ago a phrase with a rough melody popped into my head. “I don’t want to be alone with my suitcase anymore” This is something that happens to me a lot. Random phrases will come to me that I might want to use in a song later. I have an … Continue reading There’s no crying in baseball
I wrote a song that I think is ok. I’m very much out of practice with songwriting. The music came relatively easily. There’s not much to it, just a simple driving chord progression rooted in punk rock. It took over a month to write the lyrics. And I’m still only half-heartedly liking them, tweaking them constantly … Continue reading Jet lag
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