Author: Gregor McCole

It’s been quite a process to get this site up and running.  Up until now, the process I’ve followed to “save” a song has been:  write it, edit it, and then save it on some unbelievably outdated technology or lo-fi device in my house (cassette tape, iPhone, etc).   I generally tended to record all the songs written in a year in the last week of that year, save it all as one batch, put it on a shelf, write the names of the songs down on my master list of songs in Excel, save all the lyrics to that year’s songs on a single file (S13.doc, S14.doc, etc), and then move on.   Job done.

Every so often along the way, it was pointed out to me that I was missing a step…

Over the last year, I’ve gone through a process to unearth what got stored away.   I even listened to stuff going back to high school and early college (which was, um…MORTIFYING).   I found lots of songs that I’d completely forgotten about, a number of songs that I was able to “fix,” and way more songs that didn’t work than I would ever want to admit.  Like…way more.  I didn’t know what I was doing for a long time.

Writing songs that work is actually quite hard.

The end result, though, was that I came to a collection that I felt was worth sharing and “officially” recording, using real recording tools (ProTools, studio help).

And so we’re now to the part of the process I skipped—sharing.   If I drop one song a week, I should be able to update this site with new material (hopefully good material) for a few years, without repeating anything.  I’m looking forward to seeing how they do in the real world.

Please send me any feedback you have at [email protected].