Let us celebrate our failures and our successes! I submit my failure here for consideration. I actually want to do something more with this just because it's a lot darker than I usually write. Unfortunately, it never turned into something musical…

Let us celebrate our failures and our successes! I submit my failure here for consideration. I actually want to do something more with this just because it's a lot darker than I usually write. Unfortunately, it never turned into something musical…

Did I mention I'm taping my songwriting sessions? So I now have about 30 minutes of footage of me totally screwing around at the beginning of this session. Listening to Spotify. Playing melodies by ear and such. And then I finally decided…

"Farmer's Blow" is redneck rap. Oh yeah, I went there. - - - If you're on the run And your nose has gotta go Don't grab a tissue Do the farmer's blow Just tilt your head To the side Then block one nostril And let it ride You may think That…

Well I *had* intended to try doing something different this week. So technically I succeeded. It's solo piano again, but I had to teach my left hand how to play this somewhat syncopated bass line, before I could actually compose against it…

"Farmer's Blow" is redneck rap. Oh yeah, I went there. - - - If you're on the run And your nose has gotta go Don't grab a tissue Do the farmer's blow Just tilt your head To the side Then block one nostril And let it ride You may think That…

Oh yeah. The silly a cappellas are back. Ideas they are like water Just floating all along But you really can't hold on Ideas they are elusive You can chase 'em everyday In the end they get away So get that old idea And dust it off It don't…

Hurray patches? The melody was the last thing that was written for this. The piano is a placeholder for whenever I get around to actually writing full lyrics. (I have a few lines written down, but I’m not sure if that’s the direction I want…

This Valentine’s Day, sing this song to your SO and there’s a good chance they’ll turn into your ex. -- Oy. About 6 hours of work: 1.5 hours to write the lyrics/melody first thing in the morning 1.5 hours figuring out the harmonic progression…

Not to sell this piece short, but after yesterday's grueling session, I'm just happy to have written anything at all today.