It's been a month since I last posted on this thread about what works for me.
I haven't written the complete words or music to a song since that posting on the Woolton Chruch thread.
What I have been doing this past month was making an experiment during my private practice sessions, alone.
What I did was to try other peoples ideas on what works for them. My conclusions of the past month are mixed, and only my own, as I know no benchmark to compare them too.
I tried to make a sampling using stuff I have done in the past, comparing it to new stuff I did this past month. I've never done anything like this before and I got some odd results, to me, and my original idea of comparing the material durning this past months experiments, got lost or mixed up with the base, or plesebo (spelling) material I've done in the past.
I tried writting the words to a song first. In this case I just used what ever came to mind as I sat on my front porch. I tried as hard as I could not to let a melody seep in on some of them, others I accepted the melody, and took notes on it.
Also, I have quite a few songs I've done that I haven't played in years. I just copied the words to them and added a new melody without looking at my score on those particular songs.
I have tons or riffs, turn-arounds, lead solos that I've done over the years. So I jump into my library and yank out three that I haven't used in years, I did this after making three more one evening in my studio.
What I didn't do was what I usually do, and that's just let the musc flow, as I posted a month ago.
To make a loooong story short. Nothing worked. Not one song was completed. What I have I'm not pleased with.
I realize some of the songs in this past week I 'tried' to hard on, and reviewing them, I can tell I 'tried' to hurry and get something down. The incomplete songs from last month sound ok, but the mood, inner self or something was lacking and when I'd return to work on them, I felt like it was an effort.
Remember, I didn't once during the past month give in to that urge to seperate myself from what I was doing and just flow with the music.
At this moment I'm busting inside to do that. Not that I have a song in me that I haven't heard yet, but that's my style of playing, practicing and creativeness.
I did this to see if I'm missing something that someone else is doing. To see if there was a better way. Explore new ideas.
At this point I feel my own way is what works best for me.
I may be stuck in a groove, but I tried to wheel out of it and nothing seemed to work. I saw no interesting scenary along the way. Next session, I'll jump back in my groove and get rid of this busting inside feeling I have. I've capped it too long.
I've a busy schedule this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow, so it'll be a few days till I can 'bust loose' in solo practice session.
Just wanted to try something, and don't know really what I've learnt from it all yet, but it was fun and frustrating.
~ lets out a huge sigh ~
Now, I can start putting more time into learing this recording stuff.