I haven't blogged in a really really long time, and I kinda have to blog today, so I guess no matter what this post is going up!
Since it's 4th quarter (and I honestly can't even believe how fast time has flown), in STAC we're starting independent projects. My independent project is to continue songwriting, kind of like I did in the intensive, only at a less rigorous pace. I'm letting the ideas come to me, and letting creativity be my guide and drive rather than a sheet of paper telling me exactly what I have to due and a due date right smack on top. I want to be able to write what I feel easily, and be proud of it. I want to let go with my lyrics, and just expand both lyrically and musically. I think I can do that 4th quarter.
At the same time though, I also want to do something else. I want to study not just songwriting, but something else to do when I get sick of songwriting that is still a project. I don't really know what that is yet. I love to act, I love to sing, I love to dance, and I love to write, I just don't know what I want to do with any of those, but I want to do something. Working on songwriting and increasing my skill is great, but it does get really boring and writers block does start to happen after a while. So, I need to do something else, and I'm trying to decide what that "something else" is.
Today in class, I decided to just mess around on a piano and see what came out. And a really great and unidentifiable chord progression came about, that I really kind of love. To be honest, they're not even standard chords. Nothing is really standard about this song so far, and I really like it. There's not one block chord, there's many made up chords intertwined with real chords and I think that's pretty awesome. I worked solely on music today, and wrote down a few melodies that worked with the piano part I wrote. Tomorrow I want to start working on lyrics, and seeing what happens with the song once they get added. I think they'll give it a whole new dimension.
Overall, I think my 4th quarter project is going to go really well, and I'm really excited that I've had a good start.
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