#fawm2018

I have been taking part in the February Album Writing Month Challenge (write 14 songs in a month), and am nearly there.  Twelve songs written and demo’d, two to go, with three days left.

The process started well - I came up with a few songs and portions of songs on day one.

I had set up some templates in Reaper to help the process and started out using them.  I have some things I have learnt:

1) The things you think you will write about are not the the subjects you will actually cover.

2) The best songs are the fastest.

3) You end up doing some things that you wouldn’t normally so to try and spark a new idea into life.  (I started with a synth on one, and worked from the vocal melody backwards on another  - not my normal sequence).

4) You find yourself more open to suggestion than normal.

5) Attention to sound quality of the demo’s reduces, with more effort on trying to actually get the ideas in.  (One of my favourites songs has all of the ideas, but badly incorporated so it sounds a bit wrong, but I know where it’s heading and will definitely try yo record it again properly).

6)  You will find templates constrictive and just go off freestyle.

7)  With two songs to go, I am actively searching for song ideas, from anywhere - books, magazines, TV, music.