i came up with this minor-based chord progression that is a lot different than what i usually come up with and found it went well with an old set of words i wrote. so i’m working to develop it some more and i like it because its different. i’m calling it ‘the strange one’ for my own reference.

also there is one chorus idea i had that when i revisited it i heard it in a higher key in my head and with a different melody and strumming and it has a bridge now. i have this problem a lot where i have a chorus and/or bridge that i like but no meat words behind it yet. so that one is in the works as well.

the name of the game right now is “different” and “push”. different because i had this epiphany that there is no standard to conform to so if i think of something that sounds like an 80′s hair ballad then gosh darn it i should write it. (not that this has happened, we are speaking hypothetically. and yes i mean the royal ‘we’). push because i am aiming to push songs through to being finished regardless if i really like them or not. maybe they will be thrown out with the chaff as it were but maybe in the pushing they will evolve into something acceptable.

i’m not going to lie to you, i’ve had a good bit of doubts about this whole endeavor recently. it’s a good thing i don’t really care what the outcome is because right now i really can’t see much of any outcome. the good part is there is nothing really at stake so in some moments i feel a lot of freedom. the bad part is that such thoughts often leave me uninspired and it is hard to press on. some say however that opposition is a sign that you are doing something good. maybe i can believe that.