Little places for song writing spaces open up gently at first. Sometimes you are looking in the right direction. Sometimes in the wrong direction.

Could be a sleepy middle of the night whispery sung song idea so as not to make too much noise because others are sleeping. But if you don’t capture the tune, sure as eggs is eggs, you will certainly forget it in the morning. You think it’s the greatest song ever written in the middle of the sleepy filled night. Daylight’s re-listen says differently. You wince. You groan. What was my brain telling me!

Sometimes it does have promise. Day’s light gives a better time to release the ideas a bit more. Pick up the guitar…..and strum. Subsequently, quality of ‘song catch’ changes from an iPad internal microphone debut try out and then over to the Mac M2 computer to grab more depth and song sincerity.

Sometimes you realise a tune sounds like someone else’s tune with a melody you applied slightly different, but far too close to sit comfortably with continuation. You subliminally sing ‘words of the prophets are written on subway walls’ from Sound of Silence by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, and then have angst that you’ve nicked a melody. So you need to really check that one out.

Sometimes it has the right vibe when instruments are added. Sometimes complexity results in the wrong vibe because you’ve thrown the kitchen sink in too.

Because….sometimes you are never quite happy with it and know it needs a little magic to bring it alive. The Troggs called it fairy dust. I agree. Question? Chase what is currently a definitive happy with choice. Or a different rhythmic choice ……. or multiple choices plus plus plus additional choices and ongoing other choices that are too many to nail down. A melody tweak. An instrumental tweak. An unlooked for and unknown tweak. A tweak on tweak on tweak to infinity. No….no…STOP! It becomes the point where….enough is enough.

Sometimes you bask in the glorious vibe that keeping it simple did, and still does, work just fine. Just needs a decent music producer to hear it differently to how you hear it and bring it truly alive. You are in the wood looking at too many trees when you are involved in all aspects of getting a song from A to Z. Sometimes only reaching A to C.

The song’s result? Well it’s certainly not finished yet. I look. I listen. I analyse. The whole listening back experience is…..where am I now? Can I actually get there realistically? Doubts on doubt.

Sometimes, like below, you sing an idea straight into the home studio computer and it provides a nice base to spring off. It would then be a simple build of recording track on track with ongoing ideas being able to be changed to new by deleting out the old. This case below? Vocal lyrics.

YEAR ONE WAS AN OLD SONG WRITTEN BACK IN THE 1970s. NO RECORDING OR MEMORY OF IT EXISTS ANYWHERE. SO I COMPLETELY REWROTE IT.

Then you start all over again. Wonder where this one below will end up? Certainly not as a little be-bop tune like below. But still waiting for vibe instinct to kick in.

Wasting my time? Let’s hope not.