Today I made my song a day challenge extra challenging. I was booked to play an outdoor show at the World Exchange Plaza with my good friend Jeff Rogers, but unfortunately the whole day was rained out. It's too bad - I was looking forward to filming my song today with Jeff, so I had to make a plan B. While I was trying to think of what song to play, I decided I'd try to just write one today. I haven't been able to find the time to write much lately and the theme of the song developed while I was thinking that maybe it would be easier not to, telling myself I might not be able to do it and it might be a waste of time.
At the same time, I was thinking about how it was raining outside and how easy it is to just stay inside and not do something so those two thoughts converged for me. I started playing around on the guitar and wrote down a few short lines - about the weather and not feeling inspired. I left it alone for awhile and then revisited it on the piano, changing the chord structure and the tempo got faster as I developed the theme a bit more as I played through it.
It's hard to impose a timeframe on writing a song and it's not something I normally do, but then this whole year of recording a song every day really puts the pressure on to produce something anyways. So here's today's song - it's sort of an idea, in it's first draft that may change.
At the same time, I was thinking about how it was raining outside and how easy it is to just stay inside and not do something so those two thoughts converged for me. I started playing around on the guitar and wrote down a few short lines - about the weather and not feeling inspired. I left it alone for awhile and then revisited it on the piano, changing the chord structure and the tempo got faster as I developed the theme a bit more as I played through it.
It's hard to impose a timeframe on writing a song and it's not something I normally do, but then this whole year of recording a song every day really puts the pressure on to produce something anyways. So here's today's song - it's sort of an idea, in it's first draft that may change.