This is more of a reminder for my own benefit than it is a blog post, but I really REALLY need to find a way to record myself singing. Not because I think I am oh-so great and love to hear my own recorded voice (Is there anyone on earth who doesn't hate the sound of their own voice on tape?) , but because I have been writing songs lately and need a way to keep from forgetting things I write. Melodies and ideas for songs pop into my head at the most inopportune times and if I get busy doing something else, I lose the tune or the timing of the words....which really sucks. Earlier, one of Scout's noisy toys started playing Yankee Doodle while I was humming a bare-bones chorus to a song-in-progress and it nearly made me forget what I was doing. Once I got the guitar out, (which had horrible sounding strings from being neglected in the corner for too long, by the way) figured out what key I was singing in, wrote the lyrics down, and played the song over and over, I was less worried about forgetting it. But still. A way to record things on the fly would be awesome. I used to own a little hand-held recorder in college and I have no clue what happened to it.

Here's one of the only pictures in existence (or maybe THE only one) of me with my guitar. Too bad I look like a goofball.

Labels: music