Movement, Positive

My recent posts have been all based around my musical work and my struggle to find the right people to play with. Not having the right people to play with can stifle the desire and skill of writing music, as no purpose makes you a bit slack, I’ve had to drop a few songs or ideas because I’d allowed myself to write sloppy or lazy parts.

This weekend I’ve taken a step forward, a friend who is a singer in band decided to part from his own band, one of the reasons I’ve never spoke to him about it. I’ve sounded him out about the project and he seemed interesting, great news. With a singer and front man who you know you can play with that’s a hard box ticked. I’ve also manged to track down the drummer I had lost due to a crappy musicians website, when I say tracked down, I’ve found a phone number which should belong to him, but he’s not got back to me yet. I’ve also decided to contact a known excellent bass player to do some session work and help me write proper bass lines for the tacks I’m working on. As I’m trying to put a 3 component band together for the music the bass line is a really core part and needs to be beyond what I can write, so hopefully he can help progress some of these songs to be ready to be played by a band.

Nothings done yet, but it does seem a lot more positive than it has been for a while in terms of working with other musicians.

Ipod and inspiration clean out

If anyone is actually reading this blog they will know how hard I am finding it to find a regular musical flow. I’m writing music and songs left right and center but I am spanning this out over a crazy long period of time due to other commitments. This is not an ideal way to work. As I’ve got over an albums worth of songs now close to being finished but still in a fair state of flux, I thought I’d try to look at a different take on music. I’ve cleared down my ipod apart from a few key “must have” albums and chosen some of my lesser listened to and certainly lesser influenced music to see if it helps me finish some of the songs in progress but also maybe find a few new and different ones. It’s music inspired from my youth mostly, stuff that was fun to listen to in a pub or club but not much fun to play as a fast fingered long haired progressing guitarist, but may now give an older and better player a different avenue to look at.

I’ve also filled my normal ipod with a lot of music that I listen to on my gym ipod, this is stuff that I would never really play or listen to outside of te gym normally due to poor musical content, howver I’ve found that there can be some good hidden gems in there with interesting rythems and lyrical progression, I’ll probably delete these soon, but it’s certainly worth exploring.