Put On Your Best Dress

There’s an old saying in the Song-A-Day community that week three is when things get weird. I say that I’ve been starting in week three on day one for the last few years. Today is a good example. It’s a sad reality of the way software is licensed and copy-protection-infected makes it difficult to really try things out before purchasing. You can watch all the YouTube videos you like and listen to all of the … Continue reading

Climbing Crow Hill

Having finished A Monkey on Your Back relatively early in the evening, I enjoyed several hours just messing around with sounds. Monkey wasn’t an unpleasant experience in any way, but aside from trying to reach an audience and make some money, I love creating music and exploring sounds. It’s fun. Mary went to bed relatively early, I put my headphones on, and the main sound of this track emerged. I had it on a loop … Continue reading

Time Disappears

After posting You Bought This, I bopped along to it for several repeats while doing some cleanup, walking the dog and other miscellanea. Being happy with the lyrics and the production, I was in a pretty good mood and actually had a few hours to sketch out today’s track before bedtime. Looking back at the last six days, I’ve been pretty productive. Some are obviously stronger than others, but nothing outright sucks and I think … Continue reading

Here and Now

The last track! I’m normally happy to post anything at this point in the journey and have certainly thrown some “contractual obligation” pieces up. This one, however, is one of those happy times where I not only had a decent idea, but the time and energy to actually produce it.1I’ve admitted multiple times that I go way overboard on my production during the month. Now that I’ve got #10 under my belt, I’m considering doing … Continue reading

Agile Gossip

Another day, another Stepic track. Seriously, this thing is amazing. I’m obviously in that new love phase, but the more I learn, the more capable and deep I realize this thing really is. One of the features I mentioned when I first got it a few days ago is the ability to sequence MIDI control change messages. I was really excited about that, except I could never get it to work. After an email exchange … Continue reading