a thing in 28 photos in 2017 songwriting showing 2017 only · show all years On Saturday, Craig invited me to perform a few of my original songs at a songwriting event put on by the Williamsburg School of Music. I sang two songs and it was my second time performing them in public. Stayed up late listening to all my song sketches for the past few weeks and highlighting the ones that I liked and wanted to keep working on. Melodies come to me in abundance but I always struggle to put words to them so it was fun to collaborate with her! ...and wrote some lyrics for some songs I was working on. Later that evening, she came over to my apartment... ...and organizing my song snippets. ...are the songs that I think show the most promise and that I should keep working on. I need a process to be creative and it's been fun taking a similar process that I've used to make this site for years and try to transport it over to songwriting. The working titles that I highlighted in orange... I took all these pictures so I'd have a backup of all my hard work in case I lost my little song workbook ...and grouping together the recordings that were related. ...and giving the different sketches working titles... ...going through all my recorded song sketches from the previous month... ...and group them by recording number and coming up with working song titles for the tracks. I like listening to each of the things I recorded many weeks later with an objective ear and trying to figure out the recordings that are related... Just like working on this website, I find it really cathartic to have an artistic process that has a recipe that involves a lot of manual work. I spent the evening going through the more than one hundred little song sketches I'd recorded throughout the previous month. After Kevin left I stayed up late recording some guitar tracks. Came home and wrote down all my song sketches from the previous month. Worked on some lyrics for the ones I liked most. Went home and spent the night playing music. Spent the evening adding some hot key licks to my songs in Garageband. Friday afternoon songwriting. Later that night I worked on... ...putting some lyrics to a few songs I'd written! Went back through all the recordings I'd made of song sketches over the past fews weeks and filed them away in my little songwriting book. Spent the evneing trying to put words to new song ideas. Spent some time recording some tunes! 
