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6:58am, laying in bed since the dog woke me at 6, dictating lyrics into my cell phone. And I seem to do this 4 or 5 times a week.
Yet I maintain that I am not crazy.
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Dog dictating lyrics into your cell phone sure sounds crazy to me 
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Dog dictating lyrics into your cell phone sure sounds crazy to me Hey, she wrote Up On The Woof and Ruff Boys! And at Christmas you hear Bark The Herald Angels sing!!
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Actually that's a good thing. I'm lucky if I wake up twice a year with lyric ideas.
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Steve, the downside is that this kind of thing is just part of the swirling vortex that is my mind. Every waking moment is things like "I need to get my oil changed. Did I lock the car? Tomorrow is the day that the grocery store weekly ad starts. I need dog food. Let's get some time in on this song. After I run to Walmart for the stuff on my list. Let me open Evernote and read my list. Where is my phone? Oh it's in the kitchen. Hey as long as I am in here let me wash these dishes. This dishrag is getting kind of dirty. Let me do a load of laundry. Look at all this sawdust on the basement floor. let me vacuum this real quick. Oh man this filter is filthy. I need a new one. Let me go upstairs and look up the model number. Wow it isn't listed. Let me go to the website of the people who made this shop vac and see what the model number is. Oh look. One of my youtube channels has an update. Look at that fresh water tank fill up measuring tool. I need to order one of those. Let me go to Amazon real quick and get that. Okay now what was I doing? Oh yeah shop vac filter."
All. Day. Long.
The only time I seem to have any focus at all is with music. I can sit at the computer for hours and get completely lost in "this section has to be 2db louder" and "I wonder if I move this section to here and push that bridge back a bars if that would sound better?"
This last song that I put up was probably 55-60 hours of playing, cutting, pasting, mixing, programming the automation on 2 channels.... 55-60 hours over maybe 7-8 days. I have days that I don't even touch music and days I spend a whole day on it. The lyrics I wrote this morning will be in a song by the end of the day. Then the tedious part of the way I write will start. By the time it goes to Rog for his contribution it will be like revision 15. Or more.
Yet the shrink said I do NOT have ADD.
Funny thing but after seeing her for a while, SHE now can't focus on anything for more than 30 seconds.
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My musical ideas always come to me at the most odd times as well. I swear, it'll be 10:30 PM and I'm laying in bed, having to get up in 6 hours - and for some reason, I'm on my phone jotting ideas down.
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Steve, the downside is that this kind of thing is just part of the swirling vortex that is my mind. Every waking moment is things like "I need to get my oil changed. Did I lock the car? Tomorrow is the day that the grocery store weekly ad starts. I need dog food. Let's get some time in on this song. After I run to Walmart for the stuff on my list. Let me open Evernote and read my list. Where is my phone? Oh it's in the kitchen. Hey as long as I am in here let me wash these dishes. This dishrag is getting kind of dirty. Let me do a load of laundry. Look at all this sawdust on the basement floor. let me vacuum this real quick. Oh man this filter is filthy. I need a new one. Let me go upstairs and look up the model number. Wow it isn't listed. Let me go to the website of the people who made this shop vac and see what the model number is. Oh look. One of my youtube channels has an update. Look at that fresh water tank fill up measuring tool. I need to order one of those. Let me go to Amazon real quick and get that. Okay now what was I doing? Oh yeah shop vac filter."
All. Day. Long.
The only time I seem to have any focus at all is with music. I can sit at the computer for hours and get completely lost in "this section has to be 2db louder" and "I wonder if I move this section to here and push that bridge back a bars if that would sound better?"
This last song that I put up was probably 55-60 hours of playing, cutting, pasting, mixing, programming the automation on 2 channels.... 55-60 hours over maybe 7-8 days. I have days that I don't even touch music and days I spend a whole day on it. The lyrics I wrote this morning will be in a song by the end of the day. Then the tedious part of the way I write will start. By the time it goes to Rog for his contribution it will be like revision 15. Or more.
Yet the shrink said I do NOT have ADD.
Funny thing but after seeing her for a while, SHE now can't focus on anything for more than 30 seconds. This sounds pretty normal to me. Notes
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I generally get my song ideas as I am trying to fall asleep or as I am driving.
On a side note I am just glad that I wake up each morning!
Me, it's not about how many times you fail, it's about how many times you get back up.
Cop, that's not how field sobriety tests work.
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Steve, the downside is that this kind of thing is just part of the swirling vortex that is my mind. Every waking moment is things like "I need to get my oil changed. Did I lock the car? Tomorrow is the day that the grocery store weekly ad starts. I need dog food. Let's get some time in on this song. After I run to Walmart for the stuff on my list. Let me open Evernote and read my list. Where is my phone? Oh it's in the kitchen. Hey as long as I am in here let me wash these dishes. This dishrag is getting kind of dirty. Let me do a load of laundry. Look at all this sawdust on the basement floor. let me vacuum this real quick. Oh man this filter is filthy. I need a new one. Let me go upstairs and look up the model number. Wow it isn't listed. Let me go to the website of the people who made this shop vac and see what the model number is. Oh look. One of my youtube channels has an update. Look at that fresh water tank fill up measuring tool. I need to order one of those. Let me go to Amazon real quick and get that. Okay now what was I doing? Oh yeah shop vac filter."
All. Day. Long.
That sounds like my wife
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Diagnosis: Normal creative person mind. Creative people are not normal.
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I guess the upside is that from that particular sleepless morning I ended up with lyrics, fleshed out the chord progression and tweaked it the same day, sang the thing the next day, and it is now in the hands of my own personal Geoff Emerick, known to us all as Rog, for slide guitar parts as performed by Rog and his extremely talented guitar student Beth. Might have it as soon as next week. Then to finish the disco song, and on to the symphonic rock piece I want to do, which will end the "write some different genres" jag I have been on. (Still need to do a ska piece.) After that it's back to finish up the "Loose end" stuff I was working on before all this diversion stuff started.
But no, I'm not ADD....
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I generally get my song ideas as I am trying to fall asleep or as I am driving.
I am SO glad you included the "or" in that sentence.
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6:58am, laying in bed since the dog woke me at 6, dictating lyrics into my cell phone. And I seem to do this 4 or 5 times a week.
Yet I maintain that I am not crazy. \ That's amazing.... sounds like you have a budding lyricist there.... the dog woke you up while apparently dictating lyrics into your cell phone.... And I thought I had a smart dog... commas and sentence structure will certainly totally change the meaning of a sentence.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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6:58am, laying in bed since the dog woke me at 6, dictating lyrics into my cell phone. Interesting. To me it reads with the "since the dog woke me at 6" as being parenthetical by virtue of the comma after the 6. Or I could have added "and I am" in front of "laying in bed". But note it was 6:58am, a time of day when I am running on random access memory only.... That dog wakes me at 7am +/- 10 minutes every day. Apparently she never read the email in 2013 explaining that I was retired.... Worked out well as they were pretty good lyrics. You'll hear them next week some time!!
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