{"id":6016,"date":"2011-07-26T05:47:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2011-07-26T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T18:41:15","slug":"songwriting-a-personal-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6016","title":{"rendered":"Songwriting &#8211; A Personal Challenge."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Songwriting%20-%20A%20Personal%20Challenge.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Since I&#8217;ve been learning to play guitar, I have been promising everyone and their mothers dog that I was going to drag out my old lyric books and start recording some songs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been promising that for well over a year to my band-mates in both Acoustic Highway and Jim in Taylor Martin.. And to myself.<\/p>\n<p>Well, last \u00a0night, I finally took a step toward making that happen. For the first time ever, I went through my old lyrics &#8211; we&#8217;re talking some 33 years worth (wrote my first song when I was 13) &#8211; and marked the ones that have good lyric and at\u00a0least\u00a0a song structure to lay down as songs!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been promising I was going to do this for a very long time, but never committed myself to actually do it. I think I now know why. There are hundreds of pages of total crap, stuff I would be totally\u00a0embarrassed\u00a0to show the world&#8230; \u00a0That this&#8230;. drivel&#8230; actually came out of my brain. Reading some of that, it&#8217;s discouraging and makes it hard to think about myself as a song writer. I exposed a little bit of wretched stuff in <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4547\">this post<\/a>. Most of the scribblings are just bad. I think I have have long avoided going through my collection of lyrics because I was avoiding those failures. And their are so many of them, it&#8217;s overwhelming. \u00a0Who wants to stare their ineptness in the face!<\/p>\n<p>But then, I come across a gem, a diamond in the rough, and think, hey, maybe I&#8217;ve done some good stuff&#8230; And, as it turns out, I\u00a0have! The ratio of bad vs good isn&#8217;t great&#8230; Hell, it&#8217;s pretty atrocious! Still, now that I&#8217;ve marked the good stuff, it turns out I have more in there than I ever realized, at least 32 potential songs that, if someone else were to record them, I would be proud to say &#8220;Hey! I wrote that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A second thing that has held me back is my recording equipment. When I record this stuff, I have &#8220;a sound&#8221; that I want it to sound like&#8230; Uber-Professional! Well, between the limitations of budget &#8211; the equipment is good, but not professional grade &#8211; and my Black Cap Lotikeet\u00a0squawking\u00a0in the\u00a0background&#8230;. \u00a0That just ain&#8217;t gonna happen!<\/p>\n<p>Third concern is my own musicianship and lack of competence \/ confidence. After 25 year, I pretty much have the bass thing down alright and that&#8217;s not a problem. I&#8217;m getting better on guitar, but I have a long way to go before I&#8217;m a guitarist. And again, I hear things in my head that I just don&#8217;t know how to physically produce on the six stringed instrument. Oh&#8230; And I pretty much hate the sound of my own voice! \u00a0This is where my brothers will chime in and say they hate the sound of\u00a0my\u00a0voice too!!!<\/p>\n<p>But I need to forge ahead anyway. I owe it to myself to do this. Plus, like everything else, the more songs I record and lay down, the better I&#8217;m going to get at all that.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time&#8230; Have to go work so I can pay the electric bill so I&#8217;ll have juice to run my computer and electronic music recording gadgets!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Songwriting%20-%20A%20Personal%20Challenge.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Since I&#8217;ve been learning to play guitar, I have been promising everyone and their mothers dog that I was going to drag out my old lyric books and start recording some songs. I&#8217;ve been promising that for well over a year to my band-mates in both Acoustic Highway and Jim in Taylor Martin.. And to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,64,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6020,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions\/6020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}