I find that I think about my life more when I’m bored with it.  My songs get angrier and fewer and far between.  Oddly enough I’m better at songwriting when I have a lot going on.  The more time I spend out around people and interacting with the world, the more songs I write.  The more time I have alone to dwell on my life, the more I check my Facebook and watch movies.

It’s the perfect time for me to put the writing aside and start the production part.  The benefit to having a recording studio in the middle of your living room is that the songwriting process includes a little bit of the recording process.  When I first write a new song, I like to get as much of it recorded as possible, even if I don’t have all the lyrics yet.  So I already have a bunch of tracks that are all fully recorded tracks with all the parts (vocals, guitar, piano, bass and drums.)  Now comes the fun part: redoing parts, recording live drums over the drum machine, adding lead guitar, experimenting and layering stuff.  I have plenty of time and it doesn’t cost me any money to sit at home and record music.  A new full length record is definitely in the works.

Bla Bla Blacksheep and I finished day three of our recording sessions yesterday.  We’re adding the vocals and small instruments like glockenspiels and concertinas.  Sanden and Lacey (figure 1.) were having a hard time getting into the spirit while tracking their vocals so Garrett (figure 2.) danced for them.

Sanden and Lacey
Figure 1.

Garrett
Figure 2.