It’s been a while between posts, hopefully this messasge will explain. I’m currently suffering from “musical lethargy” where I cannot seem to inspire myself to complete musical projects in hand. I’m still writing songs, I’m still recording, but I’m not finishing what I start, I find myself just messing around or playing someone elses tracks for pleasure. The main problem is no reward for the work so far, so I’ve lost focus, at present there is no-one to play these songs with, or record them with, I am not, nor do I want to be a solo act, I get the thrill from writing and then playing with other people, receiving critisism and input from the people I play with to make the songs better. Currrently my options for musician kinship is very limited so without the end goal in sight of playing and recording I’ve found myself getting side tracked. I’ve got double the songs written since my last post, yet the over all finished product of the song (not recording) is not as good as I’m not spending the time to put the re-work in to make an idea a track, I’m just making THE idea a track, which is lazy. This weekend I will try to revisit all work in progress and give them the attention deserve.
I’m hopeful that publicly noting this down will drive me to find the people I want to play with, while also giving me a kick in the arse to finish the work in progress and not allow myself to get distracted from the writing process just because of a lack of imediate gratification.
