Old Moon

I have around 100 unfinished songs at various levels of completion and quality on my computer.

Thus, I have started a project. Every single one of those songs is either being completed or deleted. There's no reason for me to leave them all in a state of limbo forever, never getting anywhere and just cluttering up my songs folder. Hopefully I'll actually finish a bunch more songs this way too.

It's pretty challenging, though. I find myself working on an old song for a while and I'll realize that whatever I've added doesn't flow whatsoever with the old parts, because I'm not in the same mindset. I think I've really got to listen to each one and get back into thinking about where I wanted it to go back when I wrote it, so that I can bring it in the proper direction. Otherwise, it just tends to U-turn.

The good thing about FL studio is that it's real easy for me to apply all sorts of random tricks that I've learned since writing these songs onto them to improve quality, without having to mess with the melody or other effects or anything like that. Swapping out soundfonts and synths and such is very quick and painless, which is always a plus when trying to improve from the one-note samples and cheesy drum sounds that I find in older files of mine.

That's about all the musical progress I've made today. That's what happens when you leave home at 7:30am and get back at 8:30pm or so, though. You just don't end up with the time you need to get to all the stuff you'd hoped to get to. Oh well.