60 Second Song #1

So a lot of times I'll sit down to work on music and feel overwhelmed by the possibilities I have. So I decided a couple of weeks ago that whenever I was feeling sort of blocked that I would just record something about a minute long. For some reason this takes the pressure off. I got this idea from The Residents' Commercial Album. The two I've done so far are just little instrumental (well, there's singing, but no words) clips. I also recently got a little flip mino video camera so I decided to combine the first "song" with some video I took on the ferry to Orcas Island the other day. I think it turned out ok. I Hopefully I will do many more of these and my goal is to make them all pretty different and better as I go.

Instead of a song...

I was hoping for my second blog post I would post a song that I had finished. Since starting this blog and realizing my goal to hone my songwriting and recording skills I have recorded one song called "We're All Gonna Die" and also 2 of what I'm calling 60 second songs which are basically an exercise to get my "creative juices" flowing. I have not mixed these yet, so instead I have this video.

He're I go again.

So everytime I start a diary or journal it usually lasts for about a week. Let's hope I do better this time. I want something to read 10 years from now to remember what was going on at this point in my life. So good luck... me.