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I picked up another cold this week. I don’t know how I did it… All I want to do is have soup and go to sleep. — Because being sick is not really the best for recording or writing music, I’ve been doing some recording tests to see how the new fostex is working out. [...]

As I begin this week I’m recognizing two significant markers: Thanksgiving & Week 12. I would like to be further along into the project than I am right now. I wanted to have the songs written by Thanksgiving, so I could focus on recording in December. But now that I think about it, I must [...]

I started this week with a bit of head cold. So sleeping and soup-eating kept me from moving forward on this project. On Tuesday I started a new tune. It’s kind of like a fiddle tune for solo guitar. I feel like this one has promise. I started writing it by going for a walk [...]

Monday: There is a famous quote that I can’t remember right now. It goes something like: “We always write the same tune over and over again”, or maybe: “We only have one song in us that we keep trying to write correctly”. Eh, they both sound terrible when I try to phrase it. Either way, [...]

I’m getting into the swing of things now. I’ve got deadlines ahead and very busy schedule right in front of me. I’m very happy with the whole idea of the weekly blog journal entry. It keeps me accoutable. Fear is a good motivator. —- My practice has been taken up a notch. I’m working on [...]

It dawned on me this week that I’m running behind schedule. My goal is not to just write 10 tunes by the end of the year, but also record them. I forgot to budget in time for the woes of recording. uggh. — I booked the date for the performance debut of this music: Tuesday, [...]

Wow, seven weeks into this project…. At the beginning of this week I noticed that the whole thrill of the Walbum project had waned. All of a sudden it was no longer fun. It was now a deadline and a responsibility… Too bad for me. I’m booking at date for the concert debut of all [...]

Again, not the most productive week ever. My fall teaching schedule has me a little busier than I expected. To take things up a notch, I purchased a copy of Sibelius to help with organizing my fledgling compositions. We’ll see how that works out this week, it’s due to arrive on Monday. My playing is [...]

I was kind of running in place this week.  I was doing stuff, but not really accomplishing anything.  I’m still stuck with my first tune, so I’ve decided to move on and come back to it later. I took a couple of old tunes out and dusted them off a bit.  I have a lot [...]

This week wasn’t very good for my Walbum project. I’ve been hitting my head up against a wall of a tune and I’ve haven’t got very far. I made a little bit of development, but then I forgot what it was, and then when I remembered, it didn’t seem so cool anymore. I basically don’t [...]