Woot! I just did my first songskirmish of the year! By just, I mean today...it was a few hours ago.
For those of you who don't know, a songskirmish is when a bunch of FAWMers (i.e. people doing FAWM) set a time. At the appointed time, they all converge on the designated forum thread for the revealing of the title. This title is then used for a song that each person (individually) creates.
The catch? The song has to be written in under an hour.
It's super fun, and I encourage any of you that like to compose to attempt it sometime, even if you aren't doing FAWM. This time, the title was "Strange Skies". Since I'm slightly sick, I decided to make it instrumental. Not only that, but I kind of failed at doing it in under an hour - I spent about two hours working on it. I still don't think it's quite perfect yet. But in any case, check it out on Youtube - link below!
Strange Skies
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
FAWM
I've been utterly failing at 60k/60day. But regardless of that, I'm joining FAWM! What is FAWM you ask? FAWM stands for February Album Writing Month, and it's a challenge to write 14 songs during February. This year, since it's a leap year, the quota is 14 and a half songs. :)
In case you didn't figure it out, that's a song every two days. *eyes calendar* It's nearly the 4th. Number of songs I've produced? A grand total of *drumroll* zero.
This isn't to say I haven't had a good reason for it. It's midterms time, and I've got a cold, which makes it nearly impossible to sing well enough that I would dare listen to it myself, much less unleash it on the rest of the world. But really, those are just excuses. I can play other instruments...there's no reason I can't create an instrumental song.
Oh well. I've promised myself that as soon as I catch up on my homework, I'll spend a day and devote it to writing music. Phew.
Questions for you: What instrument(s) do you play, and would you do FAWM? The second one is really more me trying to get you to do it with me so I can get my butt kicked into action occasionally. ;)
In case you didn't figure it out, that's a song every two days. *eyes calendar* It's nearly the 4th. Number of songs I've produced? A grand total of *drumroll* zero.
This isn't to say I haven't had a good reason for it. It's midterms time, and I've got a cold, which makes it nearly impossible to sing well enough that I would dare listen to it myself, much less unleash it on the rest of the world. But really, those are just excuses. I can play other instruments...there's no reason I can't create an instrumental song.
Oh well. I've promised myself that as soon as I catch up on my homework, I'll spend a day and devote it to writing music. Phew.
Questions for you: What instrument(s) do you play, and would you do FAWM? The second one is really more me trying to get you to do it with me so I can get my butt kicked into action occasionally. ;)
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