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No, I haven’t posted about this before, but yes I’m working on NaMuWriMo as well and quite successfully so far. As a challenge I’m trying to compose all on my guitar and not from my computer, this gives me the advantages that I get to pick up on my guitar skills, my knowledge of chords, etc.

Anyway, I got the basic chords down for both verse as well as chorus and even the melody is starting to come along nicely. I’m still working on the rhythm and the lyrics, but I suppose I could have that done before the end of the month.

Biggest problems so far is to write a lyrics. What the fuck do you write about anyway? Most lyrics are about love and death, agreed, but I don’t have problems with either, so I’m looking in to other things that annoy me, so far still no luck, but we’ll get there.

Another problem is that I only work on the music when I’m alone. For some reason I feel terrible insecure about it so far, so I don’t want to share too much until it at least has some shape or form and before I can actually play it. *sighs*

Oh well, I think it’s a great exercise though

Yesterday we had our first ’song writing session’. It came down to extending the few chords we already have to something that sounds almost decent. And although we don’t have a full fledged song just quite yet, I think it was useful and incredibly fun, so we might do this more often.

And I can’t believe we actually did a SWOT analysis of the band