Itās been quite a process to get this site up and running.Ā Up until now, the process Iāve followed to āsaveā a song has been:Ā write it, edit it, and then save it on some unbelievably outdated technology or lo-fi device in my house (cassette tape, iPhone, etc).Ā Ā I generally tended to record all the songs written in a year in the last week of that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 yearās songs on a single file (S13.doc, S14.doc, etc), and then move on.Ā Ā Job done.
Every so often along the way, it was pointed out to me that I was missing a stepā¦
Over the last year, Iāve gone through a process to unearth what got stored away.Ā Ā I even listened to stuff going back to high school and early college (which was, umā¦MORTIFYING).Ā Ā I found lots of songs that Iād completely forgotten about, a number of songs that I was able to āfix,ā and way more songs that didnāt work than I would ever want to admit.Ā Like…way more.Ā I didnāt 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 āofficiallyā recording, using real recording tools (ProTools, studio help).
And so weāre now to the part of the process I skippedāsharing.Ā Ā 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.Ā Iām looking forward to seeing how they do in the real world.
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