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OK, I have been thinking about FAWM--and how in some cases people post a song a day HERE. Every day. All YEAR. So, I was thinking. David, why don't you post a SONG A DAY to the BIAB forum in the month of February. Give absolutely no thought to what you are doing. Just pump them out and put some funny little wiggling GIFS to go with it. Let it rip man. Why not? Creativity unleashed!! Would anyone join me? Would Rockstar_Not be there by my side?? Would everyone hate me? Can I post a song a day in February of stuff that comes right off the top of my head with virtually no mixing and have everyone join me? As a competition? To show the world what BIAB can REALLY do??? Is it crazy????? Y'all let me know because I am locked and loaded.  I need a really good logical reason NOT to do this. Explain it to me clearly so I can understand if I am off-base in any way.
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If I were to do a song a day of the top of my head it would not give PGM the best exposure. A few polished songs a month would be the best option for me. YMMV
Today I bought a doughnut without the sprinkles. Diets are hard!
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But....but....but....
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Today I bought a doughnut without the sprinkles. Diets are hard!
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Man, in so many ways, it just doesn't seem fair or just.
No equity.
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could you please stop the captcha as i have had worse done to me on this forum from members .
However i do enjoy the forum , and its contents .
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let me but !! and stop the nonsense !. that i have put up with.. Now let me join in the forum i have been a part of !!.
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So that means.... I CAN'T post a song a day???? And.... why??? Sorry, I am trying to keep up, but I am lost.
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I say go for it.
I think you are missing out on the point of the FAWM challenge.
But hey, if you haven’t tried it, whether you join in the FAWM community or not, I would encourage anyone who hasn’t tried what seems like a crazy idea to most, to give it a try.
Several forumites do participate in the FAWM community, most using BIAB. For those that are regular BIAB and RB users, it’s a great showcase for the unique capabilities of BIAB to a community that is outside of the PG Forum and community.
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If I were to do a song a day of the top of my head it would not give PGM the best exposure. A few polished songs a month would be the best option for me. YMMV I hear you M.... I could not write anything I'd be pleased with or well fleshed out and ready for my peers ears to scrutinize under the time constraints of FAWM. I somehow finished (4) songs and (1) composition in about (2) months earlier last year and it's still an enigma to me as to where the creative spurt came from. For me....an interesting, non-cliche subject has to grab me then I'm OCD until it's recorded. But....I do understand the good intentions of the FAWM challenge. Best to all who dive in and give it a try. Have a great weekend everyone....
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I tend to joke around a lot and be silly--BUT-- Here I am only half-joking. I am part of a healthy songwriting group and I have noticed some people tend to get too OCD about their songs instead of just writing something. As Paul McCartney once said (I believe): "I can write that song in 15 minutes." So, since there are those who seem to have no problem posting 3 or 4 songs a day with their latest epic pentatonic solos, I was wondering what might happen if I posted a song a day with lyrics and vocals, giving hardly any thought to what I was doing. That seems to be the state of pop, so maybe it would be a great thing for me. Make me more modern. It would not be separate from FAWM and I do know what FAWM is about--just write it. I have not figured out what I will do yet, but these thoughts have crossed my mind is all. But, should I decide to pull the trigger, I am loaded, as I said before.
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Anyone is free to post anything they want, but I may not be able to listen and/or comment on all of them. I did the RPM February Challenge one year and it was fun. I personally don't have it in me any more, but have at it and have fun!
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David I will gladly join in but I will be lucky to have time for 14, let alone 28. And I won’t be using PG products because I have never put the investment into my BIAB everything pack purchase from a few christmases ago. Every time I open it I’m overwhelmed and have no idea where to start. Last year most of my songs were iPhone recordings and a couple were through composed.
I’m scottlake in FAWMworld.
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David, you should have a Snickers bar..... you're not yourself. All kidding aside.... It might prove to be interesting if nothing else. That, write a song a day, is exactly what Jeffery Steele recommended that everyone do if they call themselves songwriters who wish to get better at their craft. I thought FAWM was 14 songs in the month.... which equates to a song every two days to stay on schedule. But hey.... a song a day would certainly flush out the old mental cobwebs. And furthermore.... what's wrong with wankering out 5 pentatonic guitar solo extravaganzas in a day? Never mind, don't answer that it was a rhetorical question that we have already discussed in much detail. Write, write, write, and then write some more. How hard can it be???
Is quality a factor? Or are we writing hit radio?? Exactly!
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You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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Honestly, the idea of a month-long "competitition" in which contributors "give absolutely no thought to what they are doing and just pump them out" doesn't sound very appealing. Agreed. That is not February Album Writing Month. First of all, it’s not a competition, it’s a challenge. Major difference Second, it’s about the supportive community as it is about anything else. Third and most important it’s about trying things in songwriting that you’ve never tried before and perhaps silencing the inner critic for a time. A vacation from your typical methods is a way of thinking about it. Rather than assuming what it is about, just visit the site and see if it’s something to try. There is no cost associated with it, no penalty for a quick exit, no shame in not writing a single song. I only post about it here every year in this songwriting topic group because I know what it did for me and learning from others and how they approach songwriting. And because it’s just dang fun in the doldrums of winter and a heckuva lot cheaper than a trip to Hawai’i!!! www.fawm.org
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This is one I wrote the lyrics for in the dead of night trying to sleep but I had just taken our then 10 week old puppy out to us the yard and heard our local coal train on one of its trips
Title: Quiet
Verse
one forty five in the morning, city is bedded down
one hundred ten car coal train lumberin across the other side of town
up to let the puppy out, hear it rumble low
one hundred forty three tons per car, that diesel’s got a load.
put the pup back to bed, stumble to my own
the diesel’s working overtime, wheels are rollin slow
puts thunder in the firmaments and also down below
one hundred ten car coal train goin as fast as it can go.
Verse
No matter how I try to sleep, thought’s brewing in my brain
makes a home in the back, but comes to the front once again
That coal train makes that trip fourteen times a day.
one hundred ten car coal train announcin it’s refrain.
never give it the time of day when there is light of day
Not a notice that it’s present when other sounds are in the way.
Funny thing about quiet, don’t notice when it’s gone.
One hundred ten car coal train rumblin along.
Verse
Puppy’s settled down, joins the city in it’s sleep
Still hear that coal train lumbering as I pray my soul to keep
breathing slowing down I’ll join the city soon
one hundred ten car coal train rollin under light of moon.
coal provides a contrast, black converts to light
trees from an ancient time, traveling to their plight
From birds lighting in their branches to a fire burning bright
one hundred ten car coal train whispers in the night.
copyright 2021 Scott Lake
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This sounds cool, Scott. Can't wait to hear it set to music. As for my stuff up top, I was being a little silly because I am in a silly mood. But I find there is way too much "linear thinking" and stuffiness and absolutes and black and whites and academic notions and "rules" on so many forums (not necessarily here) devoted to music. As if Rick Beato can actually tell us for sure what makes a song great. He has good insights, but if you really knew, you would write one. Creativity will not be chained and she obeys no rules. Her daughter music is wild and untamed at heart. So I will just follow her and see where she takes me.
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iPhone demo is here: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/QHp3zq2fwmLLBsgG9Yes it steals from Bob Seger’s Turn the Page. Someday I will get back to this one. These words rattled around my head for most of the wee morning hours after going back to bed from letting the pup out. That kind of thing never happens to me except during FAWM!!!
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iPhone demo is here: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/QHp3zq2fwmLLBsgG9Yes it steals from Bob Seger’s Turn the Page. Someday I will get back to this one. These words rattled around my head for most of the wee morning hours after going back to bed from letting the pup out. That kind of thing never happens to me except during FAWM!!! Cool tune. And yep got the Segar vibe.... Nice work.... I think a stripped down piano/guitar vocal demo would be about the only realistic way to meet the qualifications of a song a day challenge for a month. Often my production alone takes the time across several days minimum.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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Three days????? I am still figuring out the chords. Slow down speed racer!!!
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