Category: Music

Pretty well into song number eight with the working title, “It just can’t only be me”. Kind of a jazzy -scat tune. Going for “out there” melody in parts.

I finished song number seven today. It is a waltz with an intro, parts A and B and a coda. I decided to use 16th notes instead of a trill because a trill alternates with the next higher note in a diatonic scale and my scale was altered, thus to correctly notate it, I expanded out explicitly what I wanted. Pretty happy with the result, the current working title is: “Mr. hummingbird got his Juice”.

Once I have ten songs completed, then I can register them with the copyright office and create my first CD! Now I only need three more songs…

Song number seven came to me today. Its about a hummingbird and sounds like a waltz in 3/4 time. I need to decide if I trill a phrase or leave it as eight notes. The phrase is like the hummingbird beating its wings and the eight notes resolve nicely, but maybe a trill would fit better with the image I’m trying to create.

Anyway, happy this one came to me today. So far it has two parts and is fun to play.

Well folks, this has been a rough week to practice. I got too much house improvement projects going on in addition to the regular pandemic and election bullshit. Its really hard to sit down and let go to play.

Hopefully this weekend I’ll get back into it. I now have six original compositions and I need four more before I can register them with the government copyright office and then publish them on this site. Currently I’m trying to come up with a replacement song for the title I used already that doesn’t quite fit that song. Gotta be in the right state of mind for it to come to me.