Project Goals: 

• Learning how to write the music and lyrics for a song.

• Learning some music theory along with music composition so I can better write songs.

• Listening and learning from other artists/bands and being able to create music from that inspiration 

• Producing and editing a final song.

Schedule:

(throughout every week I will be writing multiple blog posts documenting my progress)

Week 1: 

• Start my days with a free write 
• Take guitar/uke lesson 1-2 times
• Take a music comp or theory class 1-2 times
• Listen to group of artists from that week
• Begin forming a song or pieces of songs
• Finalize artists/musicians that I can talk with about there song writing process

Week 2:

• Second week of the same kinds of classes 
• Following up on guitar lessons
• Cover songs on guitar and listen to next genre
• Begin to finalize a first song 
• Possibly meet with a musician

Week 3:

• Continue with the lyric generation/song production and free writes
• Continue with class and guitar lessons
• Start the beginning of your second final song
• Play with editing and practice putting a song together for the final song
• Continue to listen to genre of the week and other artists in the genre

Week 4:

• Same lessons for that week and if I find another I can take that
• Guitar lessons and writing chord progressions continues
• More free writes throughout the week 
• Begin finalizing second song (could go into the next week)
• Maybe meet with another musician for inspo

Week 5:

• Think about the song you will be producing and recording
• More lyric/music generation
• Taking guitar/music theory and comp classes
• Listening to genre of the week and new artists
• Find medium the final song will be edited on 

Week 6:

• Getting final song recorded in the studio
• Edit/produce song
• Taking final classes 
• Maybe another cover of a song from the genre/artists of the week
• A final blog post describing my process has changed from beginning to end

 

Documentation Plan:

I plan on creating a blog to document my process and experience throughout the weeks of the project. This blog would include mixed media such as images, recording, videos and writings so I can cover all aspects of my project. I will be reflecting weekly and will have a lot of content to provide from the classes I am taking and around how my music writing process is progressing.