what is it called when all the trees are connected underground
The songwriting group has started up again, and sure enough yesterday I wrote a song that would’ve never been written, or even thought about, unless this was happening now.
A lot of songwriters, or people who write songs, or people who want to be people who write songs, are very sensitive. And a hard thing I see for a lot of people is getting the bad ones out. And you know it’s a bad one because they talk about it a lot.
There’s a spot in our submission form where you can give notes, and I’ve probably done it too back in the day. I really don’t go back and look. But I’m on my 26th round of this, after doing it a couple times a year, and I think overexplaining why it wasn’t the best work ever, you just kinda have to do it. You grab what you can grab. The song that can poop out, poops out, and you just get it to a state where you can turn it in. That’s it.
Not everyone’s a writer, but this is a great exercise in figuring out if you are or not.
I’m such a different person than I was 26 rounds ago. What I write is different. I think I’ve gotten more to the core of who I am. But knowing that I’m a different person every day when I wake up.
Over the past two years things have been weird professionally, I’ve been weird, and certainly musically overextended, and probably generally grumpier than I actually am. But I’ve kind of come out of that. Not kind of. I’ve super come out of it, and I really have committed to saying no and doing only what I want to do, and this is a part of that.
This week’s song, it’s a weird one. Not like, bad weird. It’s just a weird little song, and I like it.
I finished writing it via the OP-1, which I’m real comfortable with now for demoing things to due to jamuary, and I used the Ting mic to record vocals. And I had this crazy patch on the Matriarch going through the modular that informed the whole thing, just an A minor to F Major 7, I think, and then kind of went with the rest of it.
And in very subtle ways, the whole process was made easier just by all the live work, all the other work, everything else informing everything else.
And when I say I’m happy with it, I am happy with it, but only because I know it’s a summation of everything that I’ve been working on lately, and that’s incredibly satisfying, no matter how many listens it gets on SoundCloud, which I’m trying not to care about. (It’s a losing battle, but the intent is there, and I’m trying.)