There is advice written to not start a meme on your blog, but #song365 seemed such a natural progression for me. Thankfully, with a starting post like Now Get Out There and Fail, all our expectations were low.
I found quickly, that writing the tunes can take less than five minutes, but the process of fleshing them out in a recording can take up to fifty times longer. I simply didn’t want to record sloppy tunes and later, polish up my favorites for a collection. That said, I wasn’t around my recording equipment for a lot of January and was still able to record and post a handful of tunes with draws.
But, I’ve had an ah-hah moment of sorts as a result of this year’s mulling over drawings, music sketches, daily melodies, and theory exercises; they all work together in these short projects of 20 words or less and I’m deciding to officially call them Word to Flesh. The drawings put flesh on skeleton thoughts, which are written in gospel-red letters, and then breathed to life in song. I’ve even registered wordtoflesh.com to anticipate anthologies of these tunes, but for now, the domain just points to this site.
Meanwhile, I’m averaging working on 3-5 tunes on any given day. Expect me to post over 8 tunes a month. That’ll put the count at around 100 a year. Not bad. Enough for a few collections like best-of’s, seasonal, year retrospects, etc.
I’m in the process of creating a page for posting all of my #draw365′s and will continue to be active in that group.
Thanks for all the encouragements I’ve received. If you have ideas on how I could make this into a better product, do share with me.
