Bird Skins

…it’s coming …are you ready?

The 30 Day Challenge

As a musician, I feel dead. My song writing and playing is both lifeless and dull. A change must be made and only I can save this sinking ship.

So, I set before both myself and possibly you this challenge.

For the next 30 days, it is my goal to learn one new song a day. (more are allowed, but you should master the one song before moving on to another) Now to stray from learning songs that I usually choose to learn, I will be letting the shuffle feature on my iPod choose the song for me. This keeps it within music that I like, but includes music that I wouldn’t always choose to learn or play.

Todays selection was Bob Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”. When my eyes saw the choice and my ears heard the simplicity of the song, I was highly tempted to let the shuffle choose another song for me, but I stuck to my guns and learned the song….all 4 chords of it.

Now I can’t say that there is even any reason to this madness except to slightly push myself outside of my song learning comfort zones and in this hope to find some new methods and ways for writing.

So, I invite you to try it….who knows if it will produce any product…

All I can say isit cant hurt anything.

JCMoser
Bird Skins

23rd January 2011

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The Congraduation Roadtrip : Day 1

I just got off work five short hours ago in the city of Concord, NC and quickly left the snow of home for the slightly lesser snow of Columbia, SC. I now sit on the floor of my friend, Ryan John’s house, playing his guitar. This little road trip is my congratulations to myself for graduating college. I’m going to try and document it to the best of my ability. feel free to follow our progress.

Accompaning me on my journey are friends:

Sarah Gailit, Josiah Goering, Ryan Johns.

Here we go.