1) Blog - ongoing:
I dialed back a bit on working on the blog this week, because I'm trying to focus on finishing my album (more about this below). This week I made the following posts:
The Basics of Playing Bass: New to bass? Start here and start learning to play!
Introduction to Rock Music: Learn about one of the most popular styles of music from the last hundred years: Rock n Roll!
Arabesque Visuals: It's a piano piece (and I don't have much about pianos on this blog... yet), but combined with the visuals that go along with the song, it's a really cool video. Check it out!
Songwriting Sessions: Expanding Your Horizons: A writer's craft is never perfected. Check in here to get some ideas on how to flex that songwriting muscle and expand your creative horizons.
Learning the Basics: This is a "hub" page that links to the basic pages for learning bass, guitar, and ukelele.
Chords are Based on Scales: Yes, if you know your scales, you can better understand where chords come from. Check it out!
Progress so far: 14% (these percentages are just a guess, but probably close enough)
2) Songs For Ghosts (my 2nd album):
This is the first week where anything goes - I don't really care too much how many takes anything requires now, as long as I get it done and it sounds good. I have about a month to make my deadline for finishing the album (March 19), and I've calculated I need to record an average of 1.5 tracks a night to meet my deadline to start mixing (March 12). Will I make it? I don't know, but I'm excited to try!
2) Songs For Ghosts (my 2nd album):
This is the first week where anything goes - I don't really care too much how many takes anything requires now, as long as I get it done and it sounds good. I have about a month to make my deadline for finishing the album (March 19), and I've calculated I need to record an average of 1.5 tracks a night to meet my deadline to start mixing (March 12). Will I make it? I don't know, but I'm excited to try!
Progress so far: 75% - lots more recording to do, but an end is in sight!
3) Poster for my office:
The Basics of Playing Bass and Learning the Basics were two posts dedicated to my poster project, not as much as last week, but progress is still good and steady.
3) Poster for my office:
The Basics of Playing Bass and Learning the Basics were two posts dedicated to my poster project, not as much as last week, but progress is still good and steady.
Progress so far: 52% - good progress
4) Other repertoire - ongoing:
3rd album songs - Similar to last week, not a lot of practice here, but I expect more once "Songs For Ghosts" (my 2nd album) is done.
Cover songs - Little to no practice here. I've put off making a deadline for this yet again, but I'm now thinking beginning of the summer would be good (I've written it down!)
Keep moving forward and being awesome!
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