{"id":189060,"date":"2026-02-26T19:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=189060"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:24:24","slug":"fourteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/fourteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Against my better judgement I participated in this year’s February Album Writing Month<\/a> (FAWM), in which one attempts to write fourteen songs in twenty-eight days. Despite a late start, I succeeded, uploading the fourteenth tune today.<\/p>\n

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<\/strike> Studio Pro<\/a>, and at that I made good progress. I still miss Logic, but not as much.<\/p>\n

While most of my tunes were essentially rough first drafts, there were some that I’m not entirely unhappy with, and I may rework and expand them later. Here are a few for the morbidly curious.<\/p>\n

A little waltz:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Little-Waltz.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

<\/p>\n

A dance in 6\/8:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dance.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

A little rag:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-Bit-Ragged.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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.<\/p>\n

They weren’t all piano music. Here’s a Thirteenth-Century cantiga:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cantiga.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Something else:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Noise-3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Fourteen”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xam3-fourteen","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189060"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189127,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189060\/revisions\/189127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}