THE MUSIC IN ME
Back in '07 I signed up for the RPM Challenge to write and publish 10 NEW songs in the 28 days of February. In this bonus episode I want to share some of that deadline-induced creative process followed by the end RESULT. All the accompanying tracks were sequenced in the Yamaha Motif ES.
(00:00) "Will I get past my excuses not to revisit the muses" first rough idea on nylon guitar, more ideas on accompaniment track and after all that cacophony (1:34) EXCUSES (4:16) unfinished crossword puzzle gave the idea for second song (5:01) FLOPPER (8:27) trying to start and finish 10 songs in a cold house in February can feel a bit like the movie Groundhog Day (9:07) STUCK IN G-A (yes, the chords and the phat/peachy state). Obviously, the next song had to be about getting OUT of that floppery rut, preferably to warmer environs if only trippymental, so (12:26) PACK UP A SUITCASE (15:51) for Isabella's 4th birthday in Jan 9 we went to Disney's m-i-c-k-e-y-m-o-u-SA in Orlando which then inspired (16:44) EYES OF A CHILD (19:43) SUMMER DREAMS in the midst of winter, this was Amy's song that year for her birthday on the 10th (23:54) warming up watching PBS Kids with my dogter Bailey the morning after the birthday party for Amy's aunt, (26:55) SUZANNE (30:58) Feb 2nd, 1st piano musings to tackle the RPM challenge set before me, with ideas for what would turn out to be #8 (31:23) HEART OF STONE; glad to report I'm still working on my pronunciation of "i-ron" (36:16) SERENDIPITY is Amy's favorite word and this song was a happy accident so it's a fitting description of the whole endeavor (39:33) THE MUSIC IN ME, tagged by some of the ideas that led to it.
