So as i mentioned in my last post, I am currently working towards the recording of an EP of my songs.
Over the past month or so i have been working on songwriting and arranging songs. This has been a really good experience for me, taking my songs to other people and seeing what they reckon.
If anything sometimes it is good to just say goodbye to a song! For any of you who write songs, poems, or paint or whatever, sometimes you are really unsure about something you have made, and actually just need someone to say ‘no’ to put you out of your misery! So this has been great.
But also i have really enjoyed seeing songs develop and come from being rough ideas, being moulded into ‘proper’ songs! Over the past couple of days i have had the privelidge of doing some songwriting with Philippa Hanna (www.philippahanna.co.uk). It has been so good to have a fresh pair of ears and eyes working on these songs, we have worked on 2 songs together, of which i had the initial structure, but was really just very stuck with it! Today, one song went from being in 4/4 to being in 6/8, and then out of nowhere it seemed to just find life.
So yeh, really great process, enjoying every minute of it. I will try and fill you in as things progress. Can’t wait to share the finished thing with you!
The songwriting process
So as i mentioned in my last post, I am currently working towards the recording of an EP of my songs.
Over the past month or so i have been working on songwriting and arranging songs. This has been a really good experience for me, taking my songs to other people and seeing what they reckon.
If anything sometimes it is good to just say goodbye to a song! For any of you who write songs, poems, or paint or whatever, sometimes you are really unsure about something you have made, and actually just need someone to say ‘no’ to put you out of your misery! So this has been great.
But also i have really enjoyed seeing songs develop and come from being rough ideas, being moulded into ‘proper’ songs! Over the past couple of days i have had the privelidge of doing some songwriting with Philippa Hanna (www.philippahanna.co.uk). It has been so good to have a fresh pair of ears and eyes working on these songs, we have worked on 2 songs together, of which i had the initial structure, but was really just very stuck with it! Today, one song went from being in 4/4 to being in 6/8, and then out of nowhere it seemed to just find life.
So yeh, really great process, enjoying every minute of it. I will try and fill you in as things progress. Can’t wait to share the finished thing with you!