Amazing

Some lyric work today. And a nice idea for the arangement for the opening song! I listend to the 12 songs/ideas like they are till now and i find them amazing. I really hope that i can produce them like they deserve it. And that i get the lyrics good enough to make people feel. This will be a good week for my project!

Quite Well

Today was a quite good day. I got some lines of lyrics and ideas for a few songs. I think i´ll get a better and better performance the coming days.

Tough Time

The next few weeks will be a very tough time. Time to work hard and gamble for high stackes. About 14 lyrics have to be written in about 14 days. And not just any lyrics. The ones that mean something and move people hearts or minds or at least their hips. Today i started with the first one. It will be the one most intimate sounding, the only realy slow song on a LP of rather happy tunes. I didn´t write any actual lines of the lyric, i just started to make a sharp image of the story. So i´m behind my time plan again. But so what, let be christmas what it is, again and tomorrow i´ll let the wild horses on the track.

Human After All

Today no real progress for the project. Let be chrismas what it is. See the family, relax a bit. Some thoughts about the very first promotion strategy (how become interesting for radio etc.). Also a thought about my personality. Am I too egoistic, do i appear arrogant when i´m having this "i wanna be the best" attitude? It would make me sad when people would experience me as an ass/arse or an ill maniac because of my goal gettig far in the music industry. I´ll make the intension to my mind to try to not hurt people feelings by every action i do in the future. Because we´re a planet of humans after all!

Aaaaaaaaarg!

Sometimes one just have to bite thrugh it.

I felt terrible today
(marry christmas by the way).
Somehow i catched a bad cold, hey
exactly on this holy day
and everytime i tried it anyway
a voice begun to say:
don´t work, you´ve to become healthy first, OK?
you won´t be creative far and away.

By my third attempt another voice said: OK, in your career you´ll get into more serious situations when you don´t feel good but it will count to make a good performance. So i did one easy arranging/formgiving session just for an hour just as an exercise. It was fun and i felt really better (the body seems to focus on what you want it focuses. One can decide whats more important at the moment: to work or to get healthy - just my assumption, no scientific argument)

Almost Back On Track

By now i had my hands on 4 arrangements (yesterday it was only one). They are not finished yet, but they are ready to make some lyrics on them. During the project i will polish them with extrem sandpaper. What helps me is that some of my ideas are already working quite well as a groove so i just have to bring them in form, make some transitions, some extra percussion parts, few new ideas when they like to come. I hope to get more productive every day from now on as i´m working on this one important project.

Fast and Furious

Today is about doing some arrangements fast, but with quality.
I want to get inspirated by the work of my favorite producers and mix it with my own spirit.
I want the majority of the songs on my new LP being very positive, dancable, the right stuff for being played on air, so listeners will have a good time.
There will be also few more easy, unexited, quiter songs. For both types i want to focus to make the arrangement work for the intendet mood.
I want to create two types of arrangements: Some arrangements ought to sound more artisic, more exciting, more me. And i also want to make some arrangements sound more flat, smoothly. These ought to generate little resistance in people minds that doesnt focus just on the music while listening (radio). Overall i´m a pop-guy. You wont hear any too sophisticated arrangements on this project anyway.

What i desire to achieve is more i can deliver, i know, but it´s a direction and i try to come as near as possible with my skills by NOW and doing it in time. Lets go for it!

I´m Far Behind...

...my plan!
What i did the last 30 days was let my mind create some inpirated vocal melodies with chords and a bit of a groove. for the next 30 days i did a plan with a timeline to arrange the ideas, write lyrics, record them, mix the project. Deadline is 20th of January 2009. In my plan there is for today: Arrange Song 1 and 2. But i can´t say that i´ve got done even one. I think that "under pressure - thing" wont´t go away for the next months, but hey, that´s what i wanted.
Good things happend also: i wrote and mailed postcards to friends for christmas and did some running to keep the body and the mind healthy.

Why LP Project 2009_V1?

I feel i´m not the only one in the world who once found out creating music can be THE fuel of live. So it cant be wrong to think about how to make a living with it. It´s almost 10 years ago i made the descision to become a music pro. But my DOING-powers are not as strong as my DREAMING-powers, so i´m still not a pro yet. Though i´m really working on it.
I´m not shure yet what my job in the musicindustry will be in the end. I´m focussing on making beats, arranging, making melodys and lyrics, recording a bit, mixing a bit.
Never thought of performing by myself. But this is what i´ll have a shot at on my current project.
I don´t have a superstrong voice and my vocal abilities are´nt that strong eighter yet, but so what. I feel that a strong voice is only a fraction of a successful music product (int. distributed song). Of course it can help a song, but my theory for NOW is one does´nt need one to move peoples hearts (or hips).
So, i´m going to create some songs, put it on a CD and online, tell everybody possible about it, play some gigs, make some promotion, try to get some airplay, make some buzz.
Just trying to take of with my career, making a name in the business, start to make a living.
Are´nt there already artists who tried something similar efforts without having tremendous success? I guess so. But why am i so confident about my project? I don´t know exactly.
One but not the only reason could be that i really love to listen and create music that many people like. I really love hit songs. I love the stuff that comes out with the big names like Spears, Pink, Rihanna, Sugababes, Nelly Furtado and many more. I like stuff that is created by ulracreative people like Timbaland, Neptunes, Max Martin, the Stargate people and really many others. I wanna become a part of this creative club. No matter if it takes me another ten years.
This LP_project is my first serious attempt to say hello to the world. And by NOW i think i´ll do it on my own, without a major distribution company (they would´nt recognize my rough diamonds at all). 2009 will be a good year for a striving indipendent artist. So lets do it!

Let It Roll

This blog is about my experiences in music creation, production and distribution. I´m not a popular artist yet. But a wise oak tree in the wood promised me to become one.

... well, i dicided to talk openly about what moves me while working on my project. so this blog is a talk to myself, but it´s public and i believe there will be minds in the world out there who at some time get interested in what i do, what i´ve done, how i´ve done it. i also believe to get some valuable feedback at some time.

... dont take the whole blog too seriously when you hit on it. but make aware that something huge is happening here. enjoy!