Song A Day 1

it is on!
i think...or i hope...
i am still figuring out some of these bloggy logistics and such, but i have begun to make a song a day.

check out the first song, Song A Day

so that is the first one, and it is pretty self-explanatory. it simply salutes the nature of this song-making experiment.

but allow me to digress and lay out my own set of rules along with some back story (this is mostly for my own benefit, but please feel free to read on about my convoluted thought processes):

last year, i made a sock puppet a day for 30 days. it was great. hopefully at some point or another i'll post those, too. after finishing that, i really wanted to make a song a day. but my resources were limited. now i have built them (the resources - they are chiefly made up of reserves of snack cakes), and so here i go. but when i was doing a sock puppet, i would go crazy if i missed one. which i never did (almost, though. one night i shot out of bed at 3am and grabbed my glue gun). but the thing is, making a song is a bit trickier. so as the first song says, "i'm gonna try my very best..." i believe i have the creative resources, but problems could stem from being simply unable to be at my computer and instruments. i do have to visit my family and work a lot and stuff and stuff.

so here's the deal:
1. i am trying to make a song every day. i'm not sure for how long. at least 30 days (or the traditional "month," as it were) these songs are self-contained and made in one day.
2. if that doesn't happen, i will try to do "make-up" songs as much as possible. worst case, if i have to i may use an older song that took more than one day as a make-up. but all of those were pretty quick and quite recent, too.
3. if i fall behind, i won't get upset (well, i'll get kind of upset. but i'm trying to head that off here). but i can't fall behind TOO much, and hopefully won't at all.

really, these are just personal rules, but i need to set them so that i don't get all mad at myself.

lastly, if you're out there reading or looking or listening, please let me know. if you are my friend or other. if you think it's a great idea but you hate my songs or any permutation thereof. i want to hear from people of the world.

and other lastly: if you don't have a fast enough connection to download any of my songs, let me know via e-mail ( marty@martystuff.com ) and i will try to send you a burnt cd. i want everyone who is interested to hear my songs.

great great great.
future posts will maybe probably just be about that very days songs, or other song-realted news.

BYE!
lovemarty