So with 10 days left to go, here's what I have done:
- Valuation: a lovely piano/voice ballad that I think I'll leave alone. I'd planned on making it more of rock ballad but it sounds nice as is. Maybe I'll add stuff if I have time.
- Every Corner (formally Where She Keeps It): a cool, atmospheric full band song with a quirky structure. It is well mixed right now I think.
- Exchange: The title track for the "hit." I have a solid acoustic guitar and drum groove and I have a melody in my head. This needs lyrics and vocals and some more instrumentation to fill it out.
- Pick and Choose: The funky guitar track is cut and rearranged into a song structure. It needs an arrangement, lyrics, vocals, and mixing.
- Tree: I don't know what to do with this. It is a problem child. I like the idea but it needs another idea, and maybe a complete re-recording.
- Low Interest: this is just a nice electric piano riff in 7/8 but it's a little sloppy and maybe can't become anything serious.
So that's 3 solid songs (though one still needs its vocals and filler) plus 3 partial songs which are still just ideas.
I have a lot of time today to add some things. I think I can get Exchange done, make Pick and Choose into something good, and maybe start a new one. That will leave me with 5 good ones (assuming today's new one will be good) and 2 ideas to play with. That's 7 total so I can cross the finish line with some pride.
Update: I didn't do all the things I wanted to do on Day 20, but here's a snippet of Pick and Choose:
Thanks to my friend Glenn for the electric upright bass. I'm not an upright bassist but I can pretend for a couple weeks, right?
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