So, I had this idea for a blog. I thought it would be cool to write a song every day and then blog about it, maybe finding some way to play the songs on the blog. This would be an incredible achievement, considering I write, on average, less than a song a year. It's obviously too late to start this sort of thing this year, but I found myself obsessed with the idea. When describing the thought to my wife, she challenged me to start with one a week. Not only is this significantly less challenging, it's also not too late to start this year. Since we've already had a few weeks, and I haven't recording anything, pretty much ever, I decided that 50 recordings would be an admirable goal for 2011.
Now, this doesn't mean that I'm going to write and record 50 new songs this year. I don't think I could handle that. Instead, I'll start by recording the 12 or so songs that I've already written, as well as hymns, gospel songs, children's songs and folk songs that are in the public domain. Even with all of that, I'm sure that this goal will force me to write some new songs this year. That's kind of the point. A desire to write only good music has basically kept me from writing any music at all (that's not to say that what I have managed to write is at all good). I'm hoping that having some sort of deadline will force me to be productive. I've come to believe that in order to learn to write good music, I have to spend some time writing bad music. So that's what this is: a year's worth of music that might not live up to my standards, but that I'm throwing out there anyway. I invite any and all criticism.
Unless I can figure out a way to play music within a blog, I'll probably have to start a MySpace page to play what I do record. If you can help me with that, let me know.
Well, I'm already one song behind. If you don't hear from me within a week, I'll be two songs behind.
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