10 minutes to record that new song, or it's too late . . .
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:54 pm. . . busy with music . . . there's not much in this world which means quite as much to me as music . . .
If I don't record a new idea within 10 minutes, it often disappears forever.
But many of the songs are complicated, and take a long time to master.
So I have about 60 -70 of them on the back burner.
Sometimes, when I hear a fairly recent recording (a month or 3 old) I barely remember hearing it before . . .
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So I've been making a conscious effort to NOT write new songs, and try to just learn the old ones, instead. Thay are complicated enough, as it is . . . .
But I still I kinda accidentally write a new song every week or so; I just stumble across them while practicing . . .
I'll be practicing new techniques, or a particularly difficult chordal structure, or a new set of 4 - 5 chords, and when I 'get' each part, I move on to the next logical/emotional practice 'assignment' . . .
And sometimes I realize that what I've been practicing sounds like a pretty good song, or part of one.
So I record it.
I have 76 'parts of songs' recorded on the computer - usually around 3/4 minute each; just enough to remember them.
And I still have 17-1/2 hours of the same (parts of songs, bass patterns, new rhythms, etc) - mixed with finished songs - which I've never even heard since recording.
Hey - who has 17 hours to listen to music? Not me . . .
I esitimate there's about 105 songs or song-parts on those old tapes . . .
If I ever run out of new ideas, I'll start listening to them again . . .
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Have you ever forgotten old songs you've written?
If I don't record a new idea within 10 minutes, it often disappears forever.
But many of the songs are complicated, and take a long time to master.
So I have about 60 -70 of them on the back burner.
Sometimes, when I hear a fairly recent recording (a month or 3 old) I barely remember hearing it before . . .
.
So I've been making a conscious effort to NOT write new songs, and try to just learn the old ones, instead. Thay are complicated enough, as it is . . . .
But I still I kinda accidentally write a new song every week or so; I just stumble across them while practicing . . .
I'll be practicing new techniques, or a particularly difficult chordal structure, or a new set of 4 - 5 chords, and when I 'get' each part, I move on to the next logical/emotional practice 'assignment' . . .
And sometimes I realize that what I've been practicing sounds like a pretty good song, or part of one.
So I record it.
I have 76 'parts of songs' recorded on the computer - usually around 3/4 minute each; just enough to remember them.
And I still have 17-1/2 hours of the same (parts of songs, bass patterns, new rhythms, etc) - mixed with finished songs - which I've never even heard since recording.
Hey - who has 17 hours to listen to music? Not me . . .
I esitimate there's about 105 songs or song-parts on those old tapes . . .
If I ever run out of new ideas, I'll start listening to them again . . .
.
Have you ever forgotten old songs you've written?