{"id":160,"date":"2012-02-02T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T14:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=160"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:32:59","slug":"a-song-for-maahes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/creativity\/a-song-for-maahes\/","title":{"rendered":"a song for Ma’ahes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cripes I wrote a war song.<\/s><\/small><\/p>\n

So, I’m still pretty new to this whole song-writing business, right, and since I’m participating in FAWM<\/a>, with the challenge to write 14.5 brand new songs in the month of February, I’m a little intimidated. It feels like it did before my first NaNoWriMo<\/a> – exhilarating and terrifying. I think the month will give me a heap of experience in songwriting, music-playing, and being creative consistently and frequently, but that makes it no less daunting to leap in head-first!<\/p>\n

I was listening to the FAWM Jukebox<\/a> all day at work yesterday. I was getting really excited and impatient to get home and start trying to make music. And when I got home, I had dinner, then started brainstorming. Too many ideas, none of them rooted enough to start playing with. I picked up my classical guitar, then traded her for a scandalous affair with J’s electric guitar (and got lost for a little bit in the fun of amp effects). I got a simplistic chord progression and a crappy first verse for… something that just wasn’t clicking. I put the electric back.<\/p>\n

I hit that unfortunate-yet-common spot in the creative cycle where my brain says ALL I DO SUCKS AAAGH and got sad. I kept trying, wanting to push through; I hit that low point when I was doing Nebt-het’s painting, too, but that came out alright! I can do this! …but eventually, tired and whiny, I stopped.<\/p>\n

See, I did not realize that Ma’ahes wanted a song.<\/p>\n

My sister clued me in when we briefly chatted and I begged her for musical help. I started writing a couple lines for Him, got distracted by other things, and it fell by the wayside. After I got tired enough to quit, my stubborn side reared its bulldog-like head and sent me into the (quiet, distraction-free) bedroom to write down the lines and see if I could, at least, make a little more progress on them. Anything to make this evening not be a musical wasteland. Some better note (pun intended) to end on, before I slept.<\/p>\n

Some short time later, I had a song for Ma’ahes. It did not merely flow as I wrote it down; it poured out like water over a broken dam. And it is not like anything I’ve done or attempted to do before. It’s rough, of course, but that’s the idea of FAWM: to create, not to spend endless hours polishing and perfecting. And I think I really do like it.<\/p>\n

If you’d like, you can listen to it and read the lyrics right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dua Ma’ahes!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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