SAC Challenge Week 1
So I have had an interesting week of
songwriting. Some moments piecing together chord progressions seems impossible
and other moments it comes easy as pie. Not sure where the saying easy as pie
comes to as the last time I tried making a pie it didn’t feel easy lol…but
anyways that’s besides the point. I always find songwriting to be an expression
of the daily experiences in life. Some moments are easy others feel somewhat
impossible but you just keep trying new things and eventually get it right.
I joined this songwriting challenge because
I wanted to be challenged beyond my own expectations I put on myself. I figured it would help open some doors and
windows in my mind that may have been sitting closed for a while or perhaps
never even been open yet! I find songwriting to unleash so much in me as a
person, the emotions we hold on to the words we sometimes can not say and the
dreams we envision outside our own realities seem to be endless while
writing. This week I had a neat
experience writing a song outside myself about a Grandmother first meeting her
grandchild and then passing away, the story was so sad that I created I found
myself sitting in tears trying to get the words out as I played the music on
piano. It blew me away the emotion it
provoked in me, this story wasn’t even real it was just something I created
from an idea Darren had presented to me to write about. I love that about
writing it can take you to a completely different world to create an experience
someone somewhere can relate to.
Now to the point of the week! The Matt Dusk
challenge! We were given a cd from a friend of an artist she saw in December,
she bought us a signed copy as she thought we would love the music. We ended up sitting in on top of our cd
player and as we do in life got busy and forgot to listen to it. Well to my
surprise the artist was Matt Dusk so as soon as I saw the image of his cd when
looking him up from the challenge, I ran to listen to the cd that had been sitting around the
living room for months. I couldn’t believe how long it took me to get to
listening to the album, it actually brought out a feeling of frustration that
sometimes life can get so full of to do lists and work and distractions that I put aside a beautiful
gift and didn’t take time to pop it in the player sooner. I think somewhere there is a song in that
feeling alone, procrastination and distractions and forgetting about the fine
things in life that bring us peace. I have played around with a few ideas for
the Matt Dusk challenge, my writing style is quite pop and pulling out a power
ballad is one of my fortes so I’m leaning towards writing something in the
style of John Legend/Lana Del Ray. I am really happy we have until the 6th
week to submit the song as the week got away on me and I want to put more effort
and work into the challenge. This week has taught me to schedule the time to
write, block it off just like I would block of a time slot to teach a music
lesson. I’m continuously working on time
management and this is a great task to help me with organizing myself.
So here we go to the journey of week 2!
xo
-C!
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