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February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity #388012 01/02/17 01:35 PM Songwriting
Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,913 Colorado Springs, CO, USA R rockstar_not OP Veteran
OP rockstar_not Veteran R Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,913 Colorado Springs, CO, USA	This will be my 10th year doing FAWM: February Album Writing Month. Several other folks from this forum have joined in along the way. The challenge is to write 14 songs in the month of February. I know of no other more encouraging and insanely inspiring site dedicated to the practice of rapid songwriting. It has evolved over it's 15 or so year existence into a world-wide community of thousands of people; some never having written a song, to several who crank out 30+ in a month. Discussion forums abound, with collaboration, creative block removal tips, lyric craft, song craft, you name it. I have had some years where I meet the 14 song goal, some years where I haven't, but never a year where there isn't at least one song that I like listening to and performing again. (Hey, if you don't enjoy your own songwriting, then there's a problem!) I can see my songwriting skills evolve over this period, and very often I will set some goals ahead of time for things to try out. The forums for the site will start dialing up activity anytime now. PG products are particularly well suited for this fast, frenzied, frenetic festival of songwriting. You'll see me over there as scottlake . This year, I want to do more pop-rock stuff ala Nada Surf, Death Cab for Cutie, etc. I will probably also do some ambient/soundtrack type things, as well as some bass-focused compositions. I know Kevin Emmrich participates as well as a few others from these here forums. www.fawm.ORG Make sure you do ORG, not COM. -Scott My Songs, photos, writing,etc. My Sound Cloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #388026 01/02/17 02:37 PM Songwriting
Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,815 Kemmrich Expert
Kemmrich Expert Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,815	Yup, I participate every year (2008 was my first). The best part of it all is the community (sound familiar?) -- It is just great fun. I tend to get 3-5 songs every year that are keepers as is or are keepers after some post-FAWM editing. Here's one of my favorites from last fawm: I Must be A Ghost . It was written as a one hour skirmish. You are given a title and you write and record a song in one hour -- so, of course some boo-boos are in there. I have added another verse post fawm to make it more performable as a single guitar/vocal at open mics (but I haven't re-recorded it yet). ... and yes, I do use BIAB on a few tunes every year, too. Now at bandcamp: Crows Say Vee-Eh @ bandcamp or soundcloud: Kevin @ soundcloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #388055 01/02/17 09:08 PM Songwriting
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JoanneCooper Veteran Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,931 South Africa	I'm ready! LyricLab – Where words become music https://www.lyriclab.net/

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #388177 01/03/17 10:59 AM Songwriting
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Janice & Bud Veteran Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 15,394 GA USA	Y'all absolutely amaze me. A serious goal for me will be to write 14 songs over the next two years. Really. J&B Our albums and singles are on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora and more. If interested search on Janice Merritt. Thanks! Our Videos are here on our website.

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity Janice & Bud #388200 01/03/17 11:47 AM Songwriting
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Kemmrich Expert Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,815	Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud Y'all absolutely amaze me. A serious goal for me will be to write 14 songs over the next two years. Really. Maybe that is a good reason to give it try!! You may not come up with anything that is "new" or a keeper -- or you might just pleasantly surprise yourself. Once you get started you realize it isn't that hard. BUT you have to tell your internal critic to stay out of it and just write and record. I end up writing a few that end up sort of weird. Now at bandcamp: Crows Say Vee-Eh @ bandcamp or soundcloud: Kevin @ soundcloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #388246 01/03/17 02:13 PM Songwriting
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OP rockstar_not Veteran R Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,913 Colorado Springs, CO, USA	Correction, this is my 11th year. My Songs, photos, writing,etc. My Sound Cloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #388247 01/03/17 02:16 PM Songwriting
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OP rockstar_not Veteran R Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,913 Colorado Springs, CO, USA	J&B. You can do it and once you catch the fever there is no turning back. I assume it's somewhat like what they call runners high. A few songs in the first week and you're addicted. My Songs, photos, writing,etc. My Sound Cloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity Kemmrich #388276 01/03/17 04:18 PM Songwriting
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 15,394 GA USA Janice & Bud Veteran
Janice & Bud Veteran Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 15,394 GA USA	Originally Posted By: rockstar_not J&B. You can do it and once you catch the fever there is no turning back. I assume it's somewhat like what they call runners high. A few songs in the first week and you're addicted. Originally Posted By: Kemmrich Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud Y'all absolutely amaze me. A serious goal for me will be to write 14 songs over the next two years. Really. Maybe that is a good reason to give it try!! You may not come up with anything that is "new" or a keeper -- or you might just pleasantly surprise yourself. Once you get started you realize it isn't that hard. BUT you have to tell your internal critic to stay out of it and just write and record. I end up writing a few that end up sort of weird. Well as former runners and current mountain bikers we get the athletic high but you guys are forgetting the creativity element that you have. In mountain biking racing you can have all the motivation in the world but it means nothing if you don't have the legs. Y'all have a gift. Bud Our albums and singles are on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora and more. If interested search on Janice Merritt. Thanks! Our Videos are here on our website.

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #388283 01/03/17 05:11 PM Songwriting
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OP rockstar_not Veteran R Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,913 Colorado Springs, CO, USA	I thought the same thing about other folks that were in FAWM before me, but really, just give a try to the community and see what happens. My Songs, photos, writing,etc. My Sound Cloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #393042 01/29/17 08:52 AM Songwriting
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OP rockstar_not Veteran R Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,913 Colorado Springs, CO, USA	www.fawm.org is live for 2017. Join in My Songs, photos, writing,etc. My Sound Cloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #395969 02/13/17 06:46 PM Songwriting
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OP rockstar_not Veteran R Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,913 Colorado Springs, CO, USA	Some of my compositions for this year, two of which are from the week2 challenge to transform a classical piece of music (I cheated, mine are both impressionist period! As far as I know) A redo of Erik Satie's Trois Gymnopédies: https://soundcloud.com/rockstar_not/whisper-gymnopedies-scott-lake First couple of melody phrases from Fauré's Pavanne in a prog-rock parody. I have to admit, I did like how the lead synth and lead guitar harmonies ended up. https://soundcloud.com/rockstar_not/pavanica-scott-lake Gotta redo the render on this one, it's a little hot in the high end. I would redo the bass tone also, but I had very little time to get the whole thing committed to 'tape' yesterday. My Songs, photos, writing,etc. My Sound Cloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #396031 02/14/17 06:36 AM Songwriting
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90 dB Veteran Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 5,139 Florida	I'd be happy to finish one song in February. Dyslectics Untie! https://90dbband.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/90-db https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_3mpivKYV7T7XFJmXL-GA

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #396318 02/16/17 12:30 PM Songwriting
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Kemmrich Expert Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,815	FAWM is always a blast, but I just went down to Florida for 8 days to take care of family stuff, this weekend I am going to knoxville for my mother-in-law's 90th birthday bash and then the following weekend to see my daughter in college -- not very conductive to getting to 14. I have been playing around with powerdirector 14 to try and do videos. Here are three (no biab in them yet). They were all one-hour skirmishes that took about 40 minutes to write/record -- and then an hour to produce the final videos!! Boo-boos are left in (pretty much one takes). Now at bandcamp: Crows Say Vee-Eh @ bandcamp or soundcloud: Kevin @ soundcloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #396386 02/17/17 01:04 AM Songwriting
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JoanneCooper Veteran Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,931 South Africa	Love you videos Kev. Wish you had time to do more.... LyricLab – Where words become music https://www.lyriclab.net/

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity Kemmrich #396402 02/17/17 03:22 AM Songwriting
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MountainSide Veteran Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 2,433 Lake Keowee, South Carolina	Great job on the vids! Thanks for posting. Jeff Win11, Intel i7 7700K 4.2Ghz, 32Gb RAM, 2x1Tb HD, 500Gb NVMe, BIAB/RB 2025, MOTU 828MK3 audio, MOTU Midi Express, Yamaha Montage 7, DX7II, TX802, Motif XS Rack, Roland Fantom XR Rack, Oberheim Matrix 1000, VoiceLive3 Extreme, Kontakt 6, SampleTank 4.3

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity 90 dB #396953 02/20/17 09:18 AM Songwriting
Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,324 The Heartland....Kansas chulaivet1966 Expert
chulaivet1966 Expert Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,324 The Heartland....Kansas	Originally Posted By: 90 dB I'd be happy to finish one song in February. Ha....are you getting personal? ....I'm in the same fold. I could never be happy with anything I wrote by forcing the creative process into a specified (contest) amount of time. Hence, I'd be a disappointing failure working under pressure to compete with all of you participants. I'd be happy to flesh out one song every quarter! Don't know how you do it but best to all during the competition. Back to it.... https://www.soundclick.com/bands3/default.cfm?bandID=897733 https://www.youtube.com/user/chulaivet/videos

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #396975 02/20/17 02:20 PM Songwriting
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OP rockstar_not Veteran R Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,913 Colorado Springs, CO, USA	1. It's a challenge, not a competition 2. Deadlines can surface creativity that you might habitually push down 3. Very supportive and wildly creative community fans the flames of personal creativity 4. BIAB owners and users have a very distinct and purpose fit tool for this challenge 5. Every person who has tried FAWM had some form of your thoughts of creative limits. Creativity takes practice My Songs, photos, writing,etc. My Sound Cloud

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #397092 02/21/17 09:35 AM Songwriting
Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,324 The Heartland....Kansas chulaivet1966 Expert
chulaivet1966 Expert Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,324 The Heartland....Kansas	Originally Posted By: rockstar_not 1. It's a challenge, not a competition 2. Deadlines can surface creativity that you might habitually push down 3. Very supportive and wildly creative community fans the flames of personal creativity 4. BIAB owners and users have a very distinct and purpose fit tool for this challenge 5. Every person who has tried FAWM had some form of your thoughts of creative limits. Creativity takes practice All points acknowledged. I should have referred to it as originally conceived being a 'challenge'. Of course, I agree...'creativity takes practice'. I think I'm just slower than others at arriving at compositions I'd be satisfied with to post for others to listen to. Obviously, I'm too self conscious in the context of a song writing challenge. As I type, something else that would be quite beneficial just came to my pea brain for those that participate....one will quickly get more intimately familiar with the interface, depth and capabilities of such a great program as BIAB/RB. Back to it.... https://www.soundclick.com/bands3/default.cfm?bandID=897733 https://www.youtube.com/user/chulaivet/videos

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity Kemmrich #397226 02/22/17 07:08 AM Songwriting
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 7,969 Edmonton, Ab, Canada Scott C Veteran
Scott C Veteran Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 7,969 Edmonton, Ab, Canada	Boy really nice videos of your work in progress Scott Collingwood https://soundcloud.com/scottt709 https://soundcloud.com/spiritlevel-ca https://www.youtube.com/@SpiritLevel-ge3hm/

Re: February Album Writing Month - less than a month away! Join in the insanity rockstar_not #397332 02/23/17 08:04 AM Songwriting
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fabkebab Enthusiast F Joined: Feb 2017 Posts: 31 Houston, Texas	This will make you laugh - but I use the "extreme songwriting" method - where the goal is to write 20 songs in one day! The most i have managed is 18, but I have done it quite a few times now (check into a motel room with a guitar and laptop) BIAB user since Feb 2017 Songwriter for far too long

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