In my previous post, I wrote about my experience with songwriting over the past six years.
Six years ago, I started a songwriting group with musician friends in New York. The rules were simple:
Each Thursday, upload a brand new song to our private SoundCloud.
Listen and provide feedback to everyone’s songs.
If you miss the deadline, you’re out.
While I try to write songs more than once a week, I take comfort in knowing that, no matter what is happening in my life, I'll always have at least one sketch put down to keep the muscle lean. And it's precisely this growing catalog of music that I'm leaking here on Substack in an effort to take the songs into the light and explore adjacent themes through essay writing.
It bears repeating: All of the music shared via this newsletter is in demo format and is typically song ideas in their infancy. Any given demo will likely be edited lyrically and otherwise and most certainly produced and performed with more care. To check out my official release catalog, I recommend visiting Bandcamp or your preferred streaming platform.
For the time being, I'm experimenting with a paid tier where I share music I've just written. Today's song, which is #312 for my songwriting group, was written this Wednesday and is called “Night's Still Young.” The demo features an acoustic performance in my apartment backed by a Maestro Rhythm King MRK-1 drum machine I sampled in Logic. ◍
Listen to “Night’s Still Young” (demo):
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