I misspoke in my post regarding my NaNoWriMo Results.  I said that during August I would create, record and release two songs into the world.  Checking back on my New Years Resolutions, it was to create, record and release one song during the year.  My goal now is to write, record, mix and release ONE  song to the public, but I will try to get two done. 

One song, two songs, doesn’t matter.  This is proving to be difficult to accomplish.  Unlike the writing goal in July, where I could write at home or work, I’m limited to how much time I can spend in my recording studio toward this goal.   My only hope of completing this goal of one song (maybe two) in a month is to lock myself into my music room (home recording studio)  for the next four weekends and only emerge for restroom and feeding.  Except that I have plans to visit my Mom two of those weekends.  So I need to get things recorded so I can mix the song on my laptop while visiting Mom.

I call my home recording studio Corner Desk Studio.  It’s a name I used back when I first started recording my own music at home from literally a small wooden corner desk.  It occupied a corner of my office.  I still have the desk and it still sits in my office in a corner.  It’s only used when I’m dealing with family finances or intently massaging my retirement spreadsheet, trying to eke out another year of  retirement survival with the current savings I have. 

These days I have a whole room dedicated to recording music.  It contains my guitars and basses, an electronic drum kit and many various amplifiers.  The room also houses my vinyl album collection along with my turntable and stereo system.  From the pictures, you can also see the room  is a homage to my favorite band KISS.  This is my version of a Man Cave.

So this past weekend I finally got into my studio, sat down and mapped out a basic song structure with a scratch guitar. I then added a scratch drum groove to get an idea of what it would sound like. I played with the tempo a bit until I got a speed that I felt was more along the sound of a bouncy Pop Rock kinda feel. I am on my way to creating the song that has been in my head for at least 10 years. I’ve been playing this melody for years. It started as a riff on the bass, back when I played bass in an 80’s cover band called Retroplex. I’m glad to finally get this into a song structure.

I don’t have a song name or any lyrics. I’ll have to flip through my lyrics notebooks. I have an old composition notebook with handwritten lyrics but I also have a Lyrics Notebook in Evernote. (not sponsored but willing to be) Yes, I use Evernote to capture lyrics, book ideas, quotes, etc. I’ve moved a number of my old lyrics from my composition notebook to Evernote. It’s just easier to access and save ideas on my iPhone, iPad, Macbook, iMac and even my work laptop by just logging into my account.

I will share this song once it is done. I promise. Perhaps I will share some exports of the song as I work on it. I plan to release it on a streaming service or at the very least it will be on my Soundcloud account. I’ll have to register it with BMI, the music licensing organization that supports songwriters by protecting their songs.

More to come….