Friday, March 1, 2013

More Musical Prescriptions

February Album Writing Month ended yester-day.  I did complete my fourteen songs though it seemed to be more of a challenge this year than last year.  I'm going to put that off to my depriving myself of string instruments and not really planning anything.  I'm planning on writing a more in-depth post about FAWM within a week or so.

In order to indoctrinate myself to keyboard-based songs, I listened to Rod Argent's Classically Speaking everyday from 22 January to 28 February.  But now since FAWM is over, I don't have to do that anymore. I enjoyed it though - listening to something multiple times (and especially with that sort of frequency) naturally causes one to become more familiar with it.  So I sort of want to do that again this month with a different album.

But while I was trying to decide which album I should listen to every month, I noticed that I have stacks of albums that I haven't even listened to once.  So I'm going to postpone that intensive every-day-for-a-month album listening for awhile.  Instead, I'm going to work my way through the albums that I haven't listened to yet.  But even before I get to those, I'm going to listen to the CDs that I've borrowed from my sister.  (Many of which I've had for about a year.)

So to-day I'm starting a project which essentially entails listening to something new everyday.  If you're so inclined, you can follow my progress over on the music listening journal I started at the beginning of the year. Asterisks indicate the first time I've listened to something.

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