The fact is I'm not a competent singer and I'm not a good guitarist (way to manage expectations), but I'm basically figuring why not? And, yeah, I know I answered the "why not" thing at the beginning of this paragraph, but you get the idea.
Anyway, I'm not entirely sure of the entire motivation. I guess it's part that I still want to do some songwriting, and this would give me an excuse to work on that. I want to work on the many half-finished songs I have, but demos are expensive. This can take me in a slightly different direction. Another thing? I was listening to the early demo of "Five Missing One" which I posted in an earlier entry. Here it is again for reference.
That's my guitar playing. I realize it's not great, but as basic strumming it's not terrible. And, of course, it's not like Bob Dylan (l'havdil) can sing well. I'm also partially motivated by my friend, Meep, who self published a book on Amazon. It's a free download -- I blogged about it here. If she can self-publish a book for free download, then why can't I do an album.
I'm not sure where to start. A friend suggested Audacity as the software for recording and mixing tracks, so I guess I'll start fiddling with that. In the meantime, I'll figure out material. I don't want to use songs that I cowrote with others, since I don't know how the royalty issue works on recordings made for free download. So I have a couple of finished and several mostly-finished songs.Tentative tracklist (not in order):
- Music No One Else Can Hear
- Write a Song About Me
- You Don't Kill a Man Twice
- Funny in My Head
- Five Missing One
- Bleed Me a River
- Jackpot
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