As of yesterday, I completed the February Album Writing Month challenge with 14 songs. This is 7 8 days early for this year’s FAWM event because it’s a leap year. I wanted to use this as an opportunity to crank up the paddles and resucitate my musical, songwriting self, and at this point I feel like that is happening.
So, where are these songs, you ask…I have each song titled and at least charted–they’re on paper. Music–melody, groove, feel–these are what flow for me and come relatively easily for me, lyrics not so much. While the written word is not a challenge for me either, lyrics take special care and more precise measure. I have lyrics for 2 of the songs so far and will be continuing work on the rest of the songs as I work on recording the initial pre-production tracks for this project. With this approach, I will hammer out the music and then flesh out the words that are in it.
I am debating as to how “rough” I will be willing to let a track be in deciding if I should share it or not, but I will be posting demo work as I roll along. I will post links when I do. I have started to piece together recorded ideas of several of the songs so far, with one of them just about complete as far as arrangement and idea being captured. I will post updates as I progress.
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