War for Whom
By frogcity on January 15, 2024 12:01 am
It was an exciting week of jamming and learning music every time I pulled out the computer with the intention to make music, but not much recording happened. I did much better last week compared to this week with the same amount of music time put in, 4.5hr vs 5.5hr. Is this the Intel Tick-Tock model applied to weaklybeats? 
Both w1 and w3 late submissions have been due to pacing myself against time blocks it turns out I didn't have when the time came around. I'm sure I could have submitted if I did have that time. But that's the thing and the lesson here: I never have the time I think I will have. I did spend good time learning music and improving at guitar, drums, and composition studying and learning favorite songs, but also it was a form of procrastinating and letting perfect be an adjective instead of a verb.
I thought about it a while, and while there's all sorts of interesting points of improvement and clever tricks, e.g. producing two songs in a week and getting ahead for when things get busier, simply sticking to only writing one song per week and using the time more wisely is my chosen path of improvement for weeklybeats and is more honest to the goal of making time for it and using the time wisely every week. I also have quite a bit of time management (and restrictions to problem solve around, can't record vocals in the morning or evening) improvement to do from even my best week if I want to crank out a song with vocals and lyrics in a week.
The i iv III v part of this was inspired by the extended bridge in the live version of Sultan's of Swing that I was practicing. A couple parts of the verse to chorus transition sound like random chords to me, but I'm not fully convinced that a cool melody wouldn't make it work and sound interesting as a result so I left them there but ran out of time to prove it otb.
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Thanks!
, at least very close.