Time

Song 40 is recorded, but I've not had chance to put it online yet.

Song 41 is written (pretty much) but I've not had chance to record it yet.

Time is short; stress is high; but donations are healthy and I will get these last 12 songs done, I promise!

In the meantime, thank you for your continued support, and let me once more raise the Song A Week battle cry:

BEAR WITH ME!

Working on Song 36

I'm once again at a point in a song's development where I've got a backing track sorted, but it's so uninspiring I'm struggling to find a melody to fit with it. 

Now comes the part where I stop layering up instruments and start layering up vocals, grunting sounds that might fit, and hoping they form themselves in to words and sentences later on.

What's not helping is that this track is so New Jack Swing-ish, and I can't stand New Jack Swing!

But not to worry - I'll come up with something.  And I can always take comfort in the fact that it can't possibly be worse than I Wanna Sexx You Up...

The wardrobe's even worse than the spelling!
Fuck me, the '90s were bleak.

Song Number 9: The Change

Starting to fall behind again...

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I'll be honest with you, I'm disappointed with just about everything on this track.  First proper stinker of the year.  Started off as an excuse to get that backwards Bo Diddley thing in, but the words are poor; the vocals were a rushed one-take job this morning... poor all round, really.  But I needed to get a song up today as we're already in week 10, so I couldn't afford to be too proud. I promised 52 songs - I never said they were all going to be good!


Onwards and upwards, though - once I've got TOMORROW'S GIG out the way, I'll be starting on the new track with a clear head. 

Damn you, mortality! (And some good news too!)

Absolute cow of a month, and while the backing for this week's song has been done and dusted for a couple of days now, tonight's the first chance I've had to do the vocals.  However, I'm so completely exhausted I just couldn't come up with a half decent take.

I'll try again tomorrow, of course, and it'll be fine... but I'm finding it very hard to get into any kind of a routine, such is the eggs-in-several-baskets nature of my work as a musician/singing teacher.  This means, of course, that I need to be more efficient with the snatches of time I do get.

Don't mean to moan - just letting off a bit of steam.

On the plus side of things, I'm looking forward to finishing this one, I've had some more websites quote/link me (I'll post their links tomorrow or at the weekend), there are gigs on the horizon for the Peter Falconer Band, and I'm sorting out a couple of local radio spots too!  

24/1 update

Nothing's working.  Most annoying. 

As I've said several times before, one of my aims with this thing is to get over my normal routine of:

1. Work out idea/riff/chords/beat
2. Get bored with it/feel totally uninspired by it
3. Give up

I must gone through this at least half a dozen times today.  The trouble is that my aim of just getting the song written is being counteracted by the fact that these songs are being posted online for everyone to hear.  I'm a vain and insecure musician, and therefore I need everybody to love everything I do all the time.  This is why musicians are so annoying to be around.

I need to get over this worry.  Even if I only posted songs I thought were good, that wouldn't be any guarantee that anybody else would like them.  Similarly, just because I think a song's dull and unimaginative, it doesn't mean anybody else will agree with me.  How many songs are there that have sold millions, yet when you hear them you think, "How did anybody fall for this crap?!"

So basically, I need to stop worrying and just get the songs written.  Or, as my dad would say, "Shit, or get off the pot."