Against my better judgement I participated in this year’s February Album Writing Month (FAWM), in which one attempts to write fourteen songs in twenty-eight days. Despite a late start, I succeeded, uploading the fourteenth tune today.
They aren’t great tunes. Most of them were written and recorded in just a few hours, and they sound like it. However, quality was secondary; my main goal was to become more comfortable with Studio One Studio Pro, and at that I made good progress. I still miss Logic, but not as much.
While most of my tunes were essentially rough first drafts, there were a few that I’m not entirely unhappy with, and I may rework and expand them later. Here are a few for the morbidly curious.
A dance in 6/8:
A little rag:
A little waltz:
Please note that it is the computer playing the piano on these, not me. I’m way out of practice, and even at my best I would have had to practice these a long time before performing them.
They weren’t all piano music. Here’s a Thirteenth-Century cantiga: