Screamie Birds Studios

January 20, 2022

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 […]

January 4, 2022

“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 […]

January 3, 2022

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 […]

December 31, 2021

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 […]

December 30, 2021

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 […]

December 29, 2021

2021 Accomplishments, 2022 Goals

I couldn’t let this year pass by without acknowledging what I’ve accomplished artistically in 2021. The top 3 accomplishments of 2021 are: FAWM (February Album Writing Month) in February – write 14 songs during the month of February. I believe this is the first year I met that goal 50/90 (write 50 songs in 90 […]

December 18, 2021

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 […]