How Many Songs Do You Write At One Time??

No sure if this is an aberration or not, but I am presently writing parts of at least four songs simultaneously. This does not include the pile of partly written songs and song ideas that are maturing in my notebooks.

I am collaborating with a female lyricist in North Carolina who has an interesting rock 'n roll lyric that caught my eye (an internet connection on the Just Plain Folks website). My job is to write and record the music and fiddle with the lyrics a bit to make them work with the music as it unfolds. It has taken several weeks of on again/off again work to get the song to the point of happiness. There is more to go, but I see it as the home stretch.

Another project involves my musical partner Bruce from the Blue Island Beer Club and another lyricist, (this time from Texas) who found us on the internet - via Soundclick. The lyricist was inspired to write a cool reggae lyric while in Jamaica and it is our job to add the music and record it. We have finished an early run through which sounds quite good. The lyricist and Bruce have come up with some improvements and we are waiting for the right time to get together and put it to bed and get a recording done.

Meanwhile I am writing a new blues instrumental which is in the early stages. I have recorded the chords along with some drums, but the melody is still a bit nebulous. The chorus (do instrumentals have choruses?) is sounding good and I think is unique. So far the verses sound like generic jamming so I have to work more on a specific melody.

Finally, I have had a new lyric floating around in my head whenever I drive or walk anywhere. I have recorded a few bits on my portable so I don't forget it (easily done!), but there is a lot more work to look forward to.

So four songs are actively in the barrel. And there are a lot more in the notebook that I should get back to. I have plenty of time to work on songs, but I really need quiet time at home to make progress on songs, and quiet time has been a rare commodity of late. It would be nice to have a private quiet studio somewhere to get away to, but that is not in the cards at the moment.

So it's time to quit writing blogs and start writing songs!