lullaby featuring piano (but of course!) Notes: Today I learned how to add an insert effect to the master channel. The song was way quiet so it got boosted via a limiter. Hurray.

“Donar”, a title that’s an obscure shoutout to the German Reason users.

My first rock song. Yay. -- Don't tell me you want flowers Don't tell me what to do You're special and you know it So here's what I got you It's another god damn love song Another chance for me To woo you You're outta my league and you know…

Kind of a chillout, lullaby type tune. — Notes: I think the shaker comes in too strong. I think the intro goes on for probably 1 or 2 more phrases than it should.

I get to say that it borders on hip-hop because there’s a hip hop drum loop and a hip hop drum kit on it. I have no idea what to call it other than “electronic”. With a piano. This is my second song using Record. I was going through a book on…

True to form, I used my new software to… do the same exact thing I’ve been doing most of this month. So far I definitely miss Logic for pure piano, but I’ll have to see if there are workarounds or things that I’m missing in Record that will make…

Confession: Last time I did the song-a-day project, I came up with an idea from scratch every day. I intended to do the same thing this time around. This piece breaks that rule in two ways. 1. I wrote the opening part over the weekend. 2. That…

Yay. Solo piano.

Who hasn’t fallen victim to thinking that a piece of “kit” is going to make all the difference in the world? Don’t fall for it people. — Production notes: Oh yeah, I totally left in a bunch of plosives (PUH-PUH-Plosive) all over the place…

With this sub-1-minute, A-section-only piece, I win FAWM.

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

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

Day #6 and it's still solo piano. And I think this is the most I've ever written *just* piano before. I do miss patches and polish, but it's all raw material that could be built into something more later on. Or left alone. And for once, this…

And how was *your* Friday night? Here I try to see just how far I can push 4 chords (that I ended up stripping down to a 1 note bassline).

Song #4 for FAWM. More solo piano. One of the things I struggle with, with all of these pure piano pieces is how much to edit/fix them. Way way back in the day, I quantized everything precisely and made all of the velocities the same. To…