Today marks the official beginning of my motherfolkin' folk project. For those of you who don't know what my project is, I'm writing a folk song. I've been listening to enough folk music for the past week or so to choke a horse and I'm not done yet. T
he songwriting process has begun, which for me is to write as much poetry and as many lyrics as I can until I can eventually put everything together in a coherent manner. Basically I'm gathering the puzzle pieces before I put the puzzle together. This is probably going to be one of the tougher parts of the project. Writing has never been my strong suit, so writing song lyric after song lyric is going to be a challenge.
Fortunately, I've achieved what I thought would be impossible, arranging a very basic melody. I know very little music theory, yet somehow I managed to put together a happy little melody that I think will fit as the chorus. My plan is to write a happy sounding song with incredibly dark lyrics, so at this point I'm brainstorming the happiest melodies and the darkest lyrics possible. I can't wait to see this song come together. I've never written music before, so this is something very exciting for me.
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