music and thoughts on it by j.c. wilson

about three weeks ago, i looked up and realized that i hadn't been very productive lately. it got to a point where i was spending a lot of time noodling around and not a lot of effort getting down to writing something. for some reason i started thinking about managing my musical projects the way i manage things at my job. that means deadlines.

i got really crazy. i opened up my mac and started a todo list. i decided that i would do a sketch a week. what this means is coming up with something i could call a song every week before i go to bed on sunday night. my plan was to accumulate four songs and then take one of the four and clean it up to a release quality recording. actually produce the song. and i would do one of those every two weeks. the crazy part is that i want to keep sketching underneath the re-recording of the songs.

tracking things with the todo list and iCal turned out to be a stroke of genius! it turns out that if i put it on a calendar, i suddenly have to meet or beat the deadline. and right now, today, i am one week ahead of myself. i have three tracks down and i started my fourth tonight.

more productive simplicity' don't mind if i do! all of my sketches are done in garageband. why garageband' partly because it's easy t...
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