February - February Songs
Day 28 equals Song 28. It’s done. The One Day One Song Challenge of February 2021 in this second crazy Corona year is concluded. I wonder what I’ll do with my newfound freedom in the evenings?
“February Songs” was my cheat-song. I composed it already in early January after I decided to run the One Day One Song challenge for real. Reason one was a simple one. I hadn’t composed a single song for over 35 years and I wanted to know if I still could. Reason two was a practical one. “February Songs” might have been my first song after a long hiatus, but would my creativity really last for 28 songs in a row, day by day? This song became my stand-in song should my creativity ever fail me. It didn’t. So instead it became the last song, self referencing to the project.
As it was a Sunday today, I had a little bit more time with this song. Especially the strings and brass took some attention to come out the way I wanted them to be. I scattered my work all over the afternoon and parts of the evening but at 9:00 p.m. it was all done.
Learning: None.
February - Ghost Train
Only one more song to go tomorrow. The challenge comes to an end.
Another quick one. First contact with the piano at 9:00 p.m., last mix at 10:45.
February - Paradise Found
Beauty in the small things, like a beautiful song…
Production of my last songs in this challenge turned into ruthless efficient mode of operations. Mostly one-takes, copy and pastes into the song structure, vocals done in one go with small corrections and overdubs. Started writing at 8:30 and was done at 11:00 p.m.
Learnings: None, again.
February - Here's To Lost Years
I wonder how we’ll look back at those two COVID years? Most of us will try to forget them. Our lost years. This one took a little longer to post due to some technical issues with my equipment.
Finished this one shortly after midnight, but some hickup wouldn’t let me post the song until Friday night
Learnings: None.
February - The Weekend
A little heavy on electronics, but a nice simple one.
Another 2 hours song from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
No learnings today.
February - Excuses, Excuses
Turned out to be a bit heavy on the electronics, but why not. Today’s no-more-Tuesdays Tuesday. Excuses, Excuses is the last Tuesday song in the series!!!
Another quick production. Sat down around 8:00 p.m. and was all done shortly before 10:00 p.m. A-Z. The lyrics are sloppy again, extremely sloppy (“let the horse of truth out of its stable”? WTF.?)
Learnings: Maybe invest ten more minutes in proper lyrics tomorrow!
