Hoovering with Roger Daltry
After finishing and posting 39 Again, I ate dinner and had time to get started on the next track. I’m not quite yet at my desired “I’m a day ahead” schedule, where I finish the track in the evening and then polish and post it the next morning, but I at least have time to get the idea formed and basic stuff done. That speeds up the process and takes away some stress. I had … Continue reading
One of the great things about getting older is seeing young people turn into functioning adults. I mean, it doesn’t happen as much anymore, but you know what I’m saying. I’ve been blessed to have married into a fantastic (and very large) family full of former kids who have become pretty cool adults. I often call people on their birthday and sing horrible renditions of the birthday song. Horribly bad. And always extemporaneous. But the … Continue reading
I woke up this morning with the music, melody, and overall production of this one completely formed in my head. And, of course, immediately decided that I’d stolen it. But it was too compelling for me to lose that off chance that I hadn’t stolen it. My morning routine is normally: get coffee, sit in the living room, pay attention to the dog, go upstairs, listen to yesterday’s song, write my blog post, do some … Continue reading
This will be a somewhat abbreviated post because I’ve actually written my song for February 4th and I want to get to it before I lose the muse. Let’s quickly go over this one, though. My writing day got started a little later than usual. My morning was largely spent writing a blog entry, fixing some style things on the website, and other musically-non-productive things. Then it was dog park time. And then the dog … Continue reading
After the general success of yesterday’s track, I was itching to play some more guitar. I need to get better at it, but I have trouble with practice. I’ve been unable to learn modern programming languages because I need a project to write… I can’t just do exercises. It’s the same with instruments. My practice comes from actually producing a project. “Wait a minute,” you might say. “There’s no … Continue reading