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For my own sanity, I needed a project of some sort, something to focus on.

Here’s the deal: for 30 days, starting March 21, 2019, I am going to produce one song each day. It will be minimum 1 minute in length, (shooting for 2 minutes) and will be built with diversity each day. That means different genre, theme, etc.

For probably 20 years, I’ve put down ‘nuggets’ of ideas. The kinds of things that come out of nowhere. . . maybe I woke up to it, couldn’t sleep because of it, heard a random sound in the house, found myself (or one of my kids) humming something… You know, basic inspiration. I would take these ideas, peck them out on my computer keyboard or software sequencer and then save it. Sometimes it’s a 2 bar bass line, sometimes winds up a fully instrumented 16 bar chorus.

Inspiration is, at best, inconsistent. In a years time, I might throw down a couple dozen, then 3 the next year. As a hobbyist musician, I was fine with this. I was fine with using an illicit copy of whatever software to just bang out nuggets and the occasional 2:30 song for my kids birthdays.

However, I recently used a chunk of the tax refund to buy the latest version of Propellerheads Reason while it was on sale for -$100. I’ve used it before, and was comfortable with it. The current version is miles beyond the capabilities of previous versions I’ve used, and it’s actually been quite inspiring.

Therefore, to take advantage of my newfound energy, I’ve made this commitment. I’ve made very weak commitments in the past… a look at my post history will show it.

So here, the goal is simple:

I’ve made the commitment, now I will push to stick to it.

With that in mind, here’s the first song from yesterday.

I am going to have my daughter (a soprano) redo the vocal. I heard a woman’s voice while I was making it.

It’s not at all ranged for my voice and I did little more than slightly compress the vocal. The lesson I learned is that I’ve got to unlearn a bunch of bad habits that I’ve built-up over the last 35 years since I last performed vocally.

Anyone care to join me? Tag me if you do. Cya tomorrow.