I'm back to playing guitar again. All part of my working on my focus and putting time in to projects rather than random boring shit. I don't know if you've noticed, part of my focus thing has been putting some time and energy back in to this site as well.

I don't really have any plans for guitar at the moment. I've approached the song/album writing thing a couple times. I've gotten to the point of having enough material together for an EP and then moving on to the next shiny thing right before I was about to record "good" versions of the songs. So, while I'd like to work in that direction, I know better than to set that as my goal for right now.

On the other hand, I don't want to just pick up the guitar and either practise technique or play along to albums. I think I've done enough of them both, especially the latter. Instead I'm just working out whatever shit is in my head. Whatever I like I write down. If the things that I like make some sense together I try playing them together. If they work I write them down together. If they happen to form a song that's cool. If I can come back and tweak it until I really like it then I'll do that.

One of the biggest problems with the earlier approach of writing an EP was that I'd want to get to the recording stage. I would get two tracks I really liked but would jam out three more quickly for the sake of momentum. I think that's a large reason of why I'd move on before I started recording. Just playing and keeping what I really like and then polishing it has a much better possibility of being songs I'm happy to record.

So that's what I'm doing. If things pull together and I record I'll probably keep it under the twitchfist moniker. I like the name so I will continue to use it. So there.

david shute - Jan 23, 2010 at 7:06 AM