30 Songs in 30 Days

I was talking to my sister and she told me about this writer who wrote 30 plays in 30 days as a way to stay constantly creative and improve on her writing. She mentioned to me that she thought I should do this with my songs and I thought it was a killer idea, so here I am.

Starting April 1st I am writing a song a day and will be posting Blogs about it through the process. It is my goal to get as much of this material recorded so I can post it and hopefully not forget anything I have written. The other part of this project I really think is cool is that everyone can get an inside look into the song writing and recording process...warts and all.

Last Friday I started writing and recording and I can already tell that this is really going to be a challenge. I don't know how I am going to find the time with work, rehearsals, recording sessions and life happening. Friday night, I wrote a song called "how do you do it" which is a little rocksteady number and honestly its nothing special... they can't all be hits right? I recorded this track on my Iphone and jotted it in my notebook, but don't know if anything further will come from this already forgettable track... Ha!

Saturday Doug, Jay and Cue from Seismic Leveler came over and we recorded a Rhythm simply named "Number 2". Its funny cause when you write songs on the computer, you have to name them first just so you can save a file which leads to a bunch of lame song names like "Fryday Rhythm" or " Window dub" or.... "Number 2". Anyway, we recorded a nice dub track with Cue, Doug and I switching off engineering the session and had our Flip cameras rolling the whole time. Doug is working on a "Making of" video over the dub version of the song which we will post soon.

Early Sunday morning Destructo Bunny (Local Producer/MC) and I grabbed coffee by the beach and got reacquainted prior to getting creative in the studio. We talked about hip hop and music in general before producing a pretty sick Dubstep track. The intention of this session was to have Destructo Bunny lay down some verses over I track I made Saturday night, but we ended up perfecting the instrumental version first. Pretty excited to put this one out.

Monday night I lucked out. I picked up my guitar, sat down and literally wrote a song from start to finish in 1 long freestlye. Fortunately, I had my Iphone recording and will post the raw audio file to this sometime soon.

Tonight was more of a challenge however. I was not feeling creative when I got home and I had some weird form of song writing ADD. I could not focus and everything I was singing sounded cheesy or like something else I had already written. This can be a challenge sometimes. When this happens, I like to pick up a different instrument to write with as this usually forces something new out, but today I just took a nap. I just actually finished a song tonight called "Will we make it". I think it started out as a love song, but after I read the lyrics I realized it was more a song about civilization and if we as a people are going to make it. The song really is happier than it sounds :)

Anyway, I look forward to posting more about this project and you reading along with me.

Much Love,

Tommy Dubs

- Posted from my phone... Don't trip on Errors