It's All About Momentum!

Day 13. Yesterday was a real challenge. Between teaching, eating, getting my workout in and running some errands, it suddenly was 11pm; in panic I stared at the screen, pulled up the track, looked at the time and all I heard was a little voice saying..."you're not gonna make it today. There goes your 31songs in 31days".

I threw some first instinct vocal ideas on it, kept listening to the music, looking at the time and slightly freaking out again. Thankfully, it was a collaboration, I just needed vocals and lyrics. Hahaha, JUST...the voice kept saying "You're running out of time, don't have a clue what you're singing about" and for a second I wanted to accept the fact that I didn't make it, telling myself I could write two tomorrow. I did NOT listen to that voice.

I took a deep breath and started to tap into my subconscious mind, allowing myself to JUST BE and DO what FEELS right instead of thinking if it's good or bad or what time it is.(as long as I stick with the 2 hour time frame)

Melodies are easy for me. I can do 10 songs a day if I had to. (I really can)  But WORDS is a different story. The trap you fall into when writing lyrics by yourself is that you tend to keep re-using some of your favorite words. Listen to some albums and you'll notice that many artists do this. Not all but many.

I decided to NOT worry about it and just write. Over-thinking, over-analyzing leads to writers block.

Once you let it go, think about the scene, the theme or title, the words start flowing. Are they final? Most likely not, writing is all about re-writing. What's important is MOMENTUM!

I must say I was truly amazed with myself. I was tired, frustrated and slightly panicking. I claimed writers block for such a long time while finishing my album ARC OF A DREAM. Looking back, I call it bullshit. Subconsciously I was stalling completion in fear of disapproval, failure or maybe just pure fear of completion?

As songwriters who take their career serious, we have to learn to write, start to finish, than re-write, start to finish and let it go! And repeat! Things are always way simpler than they seem. Life is good. Feeling accomplished! Cheers!

PS: Soundbites are coming next! Stay tuned!
xoxo
JVB

Wow it's been a while

ok ok, with myspace and itunes and all kinds of things spinning in my head, I started to neglect this Blog thing. I'm determined to get this back up and running, so bare with me and feel free to respond so I know someone out there in cyber space is listening.

What's happening? A bunch of great things. Otto's Daughters music has been placed in couple of independent movies hitting some festivals this spring. The album is still in the making or should we be honest here and say "on hold". We are taking legal action to get our music back and finish this awesome masterpiece of ours. "A New Kind Of Heroine" is the title and it says it all.

I have been concentrating on writing jingles, music between 30 sec to one minute long and I'm about ready to send them to some Publishers and will approach some company's to get them placed. It's a lot of fun for me and it actaully requires no effort, it just flows right out of me and I'm having a blast with it. I'm working the Secret Big time.

I met with an Author, Movie-Maker, Poet this morning and we've got some exciting plans. He has big goals and so do I. We've got a lot of things in common. I'm inspired by him. I'm going to help him with the music for his movie. He gave me the lyrics. I'm going to write the music and will sing it.

There are so many more exciting things going on and I will relveal all of it.

xoxoxoxo
JVB