I Hate Mornings

* Christine Rosen “agrees (The New Atlantis » The Myth of Multitasking)”:http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking with my notion that successful multitasking doesn’t exist. It’s all about “the zone” (ie. attention).
* Victor “responds (Getting Ready to Get Ready and Singletasking. | Adventures in Songwriting)”:http://adventuresinsongwriting.com/?p=29 to the The Myth Of Multitasking from a songwriting perspective.
* Justin “speculates (How music consumption [...]

I create music all the time. Mostly I create it in my head, but often I write it down (sometimes lyrics, sometimes chord symbols, occasionally real musical notes on little shakily-drawn staves). I really enjoy doing this, so it creates value for me. Unfortunately, nobody else could care less whether I’m scribbling inspired melodies or not.

I bookmark them all for myself on Delicious , and they show up in the sidebar of my site, but for the benefit of all you webophobic songwriters out there, I’m going to start collating a weekly roundup of the articles I found worth reading.

…Suzanne Vega wonders why Luka and Tom’s Diner were hits rather than any of the other catchy songs she has written over the years, and talks about how much work went into the arrangement and production.

Then he records a vocal to make fun of his brother who has a bad stutter (“B-b-b-baby you just ain’t seen n-n-n-nothin’ yet”), with some Van Morrison impressions thrown in for good luck (“She looked at me with those big brown eyes, and said…”). The track was only meant to send to his brother as a joke, but when the A&R guy turned up to listen through the album he decided there wasn’t a good single.