Members nat whilk II Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 Not as a resolution or some artificial goal to hopefully make it happen, but reasonably, honestly, probably....how many? Twelve? Two? Twenty-four? 365? If I keep going like I've been going, I'm guessing I'll write between twelve and twenty. So I'll go with sixteen to split the difference. But I don't have song one yet for this year... nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MDMachiavelli Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 If I had to guess I would say about the same, between 15 and 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 5 to 10? And a similar number of covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stickboymusic Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 Rsadasiv - Writing covers since 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 Rsadasiv - Writing covers since 2015 Planning on recording a set of Zeppelin covers this winter - music time not spent on recording originals. :pft: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldgitplayer Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 If I look sideways and approximately at my track record, then……….. 12 lyrics to workshop and complete 12 lyrics that I don't like enough to workshop12 titles with one verse and one chorus30 lonesome titles waiting for GodotA file full of shy musical snippets waiting to be introduced to the above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbfrancis Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 I want to figure out how many I finished last year first, to be realistic. I haven't written anything in a month - this work thing's been hanging over me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 I want to figure out how many I finished last year first, to be realistic. I haven't written anything in a month - this work thing's been hanging over me. 18 (8 originals) on soundclick 2 (0 originals) on soundcloud 8 (0 originals) on mixcloud 2 (0 originals) on youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 Maybe 10 or 12. Okay, let's split the difference and say 11.... Wait ... there's a song title: "Let's Split the Difference." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 Just a few...I have other things I like to do that distracts from this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted January 7, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 If I look sideways and approximately at my track record, then……….. 12 lyrics to workshop and complete 12 lyrics that I don't like enough to workshop 12 titles with one verse and one chorus 30 lonesome titles waiting for Godot A file full of shy musical snippets waiting to be introduced to the above This is more like the way it really is - "songs written" for me means complete enough to play for someone as "here's a new one". But besides the songs that reach that stage, I've uncounted ideas, quick sketches, progressions with no words, lyric scribbles, titles, songs shelved for reworking, melodies I wake up with in my head, songs to finally give up on, and most ephemeral of all, a zoo of moods all begging to be "songed". A list of those moods - > slowly warming with love for someone you've just been sitting with in the same room for a long time, not talking, just being together > hating yourself for feeling intimidated going into a bank to ask for a loan > suddenly remembering a detail from childhood that had been forgotten for decades, just appearing without notice or prompt, vivid and full of meaning you can't define > how you felt the first time you felt good-looking (whether true or not) > realizing that someone (besides your mother) that you have overlooked and taken for granted, loves you with a deep, desperate, unrequited love. > how you felt the first time you knowingly, purposefully, brazenly, told a serious lie. > Sunday morning church, uncomfortable clothes, hard pew, sleep-deprived, hungover > looking at someone you've known forever and realizing you've never, ever, understood that person at all > day-dreaming about losing it all, completely falling apart, and then fighting your way back after years of struggle, and talking to someone who for whom life and success was just handed to them. > how the King felt after realizing a stupid decision he made cost his kingdom untold deaths and misery. and so on... nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldgitplayer Posted January 7, 2015 Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 ^^^ An enticing turn of phrase - 'zoo of moods'It would make a good tagline or part thereof.As I walk through the zoo of your moods (or something)……….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbfrancis Posted January 7, 2015 Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 [just counted] Wow, turns out I didn't actually write that many songs start to finish last year. Maybe like 5? I finished recording a few older ones. I started a ton. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted January 7, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 [just counted] Wow, turns out I didn't actually write that many songs start to finish last year. Maybe like 5? I finished recording a few older ones. I started a ton. Ugh. Since you write such good songs, I humbly advise not worrying about itsmiley-happy nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbfrancis Posted January 7, 2015 Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 Since you write such good songs, I humbly advise not worrying about itsmiley-happy nat whilk ii Thanks Nat, that's kind, but...if I'm going to be a songwriter, I have to actually, you know, write songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbfrancis Posted January 7, 2015 Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 A list of those moods - > slowly warming with love for someone you've just been sitting with in the same room for a long time, not talking, just being together > hating yourself for feeling intimidated going into a bank to ask for a loan > suddenly remembering a detail from childhood that had been forgotten for decades, just appearing without notice or prompt, vivid and full of meaning you can't define > how you felt the first time you felt good-looking (whether true or not) > realizing that someone (besides your mother) that you have overlooked and taken for granted, loves you with a deep, desperate, unrequited love. > how you felt the first time you knowingly, purposefully, brazenly, told a serious lie. > Sunday morning church, uncomfortable clothes, hard pew, sleep-deprived, hungover > looking at someone you've known forever and realizing you've never, ever, understood that person at all > day-dreaming about losing it all, completely falling apart, and then fighting your way back after years of struggle, and talking to someone who for whom life and success was just handed to them. > how the King felt after realizing a stupid decision he made cost his kingdom untold deaths and misery. Wow, these are great, what evocative starting points! From these you could go straight to a great title, and *then* the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Delmont Posted January 9, 2015 Members Share Posted January 9, 2015 Who knows? I have a little batch. One of them is okay, a perky little bluegrassy thing called "Maggie Brown." No relation to Pamela, John, Missus, Sweet Georgia, or Willie. Ask me in 2016! Delwww.thefullertons.net( •)—::: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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