If you’ve been wondering, writing a song is not easy (well, for the majority of us it’s not easy). I listen to music constantly, and lately I’ve really been thinking about the lyrics of the songs I listen to and enjoy so much. They’re quite simple actually, not wordy, They’re repetitive. You’d think that would be easy. Proving once again what a gift these artists have, not just playing instruments and using their voices, but putting everything together with words to make a song that’s meaningful or fun or just enjoyable.
One of my goals is to write/compose/record a song, collaborating with my mentor through the whole process. Over the past few weeks we’ve been working at this, but the words or ideas just weren’t coming. Then I'd become more frustrated with the pressure of the time constraints. I think the problem was I wasn’t headed in the right direction for what to say, because Thursday I started over with a completely new idea and wrote about something very familiar to me: teaching. I was excited, had so many ideas, and the words just came. Went to my lesson with lyrics in hand, Sean asked, “Which chords do you want to use?" and three hours later we had the rough draft of a song! So that advice we’ve all heard, write about what you know, that’s really good advice.
So the next step is to get into the recording studio, which I'm really excited about now that I have a song. What I didn't realize about this part of the project is that it's going to be a real song. By that I mean that there will be several musicians participating in the recording process. A true collaborative effort, which is good, there no way I could do this on my own. And before anyone gets too excited, my contributions to the song are lyrics, chords, and guitar. Sean will be supplying the vocals on this song. My focus is learning guitar and songwriting, I have to save something for the next one, right?
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