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Stardate: 20210303.2347 | |
Location: The Lab | |
Input Device: Dell 7202 | |
Audio: from baudVision BMX Freestyle video | |
Visual: baudVision BMX Freestyle vid, ambient lab LEDs cycling color | |
Emotional: Coffee gut, hungry | |
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February is done and I am done with my feeble attempts at writing | |
music. I was able to put together 3 unrefined songs, which is 3 moar | |
than I have ever written. Not sure if I will go back and clean them | |
up, but for now, I have posted what I got. | |
First song was the log_of_sound, which I wrote about previously. [1] | |
Second song was lawst_my_pretty_good_jawb. [2] This song is about | |
losing my job this past September, which I also wrote about in a | |
phlog entry. [3] | |
Third song was da_dumpsta_dat_cawt_fayer. [4] This is an | |
instrumental. I couldn't think of a name so I made this the working | |
title. I'll probably change it if/when I revisit the song. Very | |
rough and unrefined. | |
This has been a very interesting and challenging experience for me. | |
I am glad that my friend Rob encouraged me to give it a try. | |
Some takeaways: | |
Practice, practice, practice...mmmkay? | |
I can make music, even if it is crap, it is mine. | |
Know your tools. | |
Perfectionism needs to be set aside when I'm running out of time | |
and I'm winging it. | |
Scratch that, I should just give up on the perfectionism and just | |
get the ideas down from the get go. | |
Or as Voltaire has eloquently stated, "perfect is the enemy of good." | |
Or even better, the song is as perfect as it has manifested at this | |
precise moment in time. | |
Music theory and composition is something I should look into. | |
Same with standard notation. | |
There is so much m0ar I can do with music than I ever thought and I | |
think I am barely scratching the surface. | |
I should not short-change my creativity. There is so much untapped, | |
unrealized potential. | |
[1] 20210221_song | |
[2] lawst_my_pretty_good_jawb | |
[3] 20200923_unenjoyment | |
[4] da_dumpsta_dat_cawt_fayer | |
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