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Silence of the Night (#poem #lyrics #FAWM)
FAWM (February Album Writing Month) 2022 begins in 10-11 days and I find myself jotting down my song ideas in poetic/lyrical fashion. Well, just this one, so far. I’ve been worried that I haven’t been that inspired lately, still a bit burned out after writing 60 songs for 50/90 last summer, but maybe this one […]
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“Stop” in Logic Pro vs Ableton (#Music #Production)
So yesterday I said I was having such fun playing around with creating a track in Ableton Live and Push 2. You can hear it here. Well, I couldn’t just leave it there. As I often do, I just had to import the tracks into Logic Pro mainly because I wanted to add some harmony […]
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First Monday of 2022 #Ableton #Push #Max4Live
I told myself I really should focus on Ableton Live and Push in 2022. That I really mustn’t waste the money. That it should be considered my Christmas present, even though I got Push during 50/90. Only I was too busy writing 60 songs to do much with Push. And so today I had a […]
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Why Dance Music Is Important
I was reading one of those end of year posts somewhere online and it was stating how dance music is important and how difficult it has been during this time with the clubs closed. And perhaps there were other ways we could dance. That got me to thinking about why I love to create dance […]
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Join the Screamie Birds Mailing List on Reverbnation
In my last post, I was a bit vague about my goals for 2022, but one thing I’m seriously considering is being more active on Reverbnation. If you’d like to join my mailing list, please click on my Reverbnation profile. (I was hoping to insert the form here, but, so far, it doesn’t work within […]
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Turning Pro
I’ve been reading Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield (again), and I had this epiphany. He writes a lot about that moment when you turn pro and I was thinking of when that happened for me. It was that moment on that day on a New Year’s cruise in the middle of the Caribbean when I […]