Low Volume

I think that I've mostly been listening to my recordings at low volume because on the radio songs can be played very quietly without ever seeming to lose anything.  It's kind of bothering me to know that I am not there, I'm not even sure where there is.  So, as a result I hadn't really listened to any of my stuff at high volume.  When I actually tried this out today, I noticed that there is more stuff than I thought that I'd been overlooking.  It wasn't a big problem to fix, but getting there was fairly random at best.  I'm not even sure how I would do more things like this in the future, but I'm glad that I was able to fix up a few tracks.

Getting Better

I'm not sure if this makes me sound like a beginner or not, but lately I've been practicing the same songs so much that I've started to kind of jam out with them a bit.  Nothing really too exciting since I've mostly been writing fairly formal rock type songs.  What I am doing is trying to make slight changes to the structure each time I play a song.  So far this has helped me remember what I've written the whole way through, try to get some the the specifics right, and I usually end up with cool versions that can be extended if I were at a show and wanted to for some reason.  This almost seems like a normal part of songwriting since it's helping the different parts fit together, but I don't really know for sure.

Mirror Practice

I think that my new thing is going to be performing shows for myself.  I remember hearing that you should always practice giving speeches in front of a mirror so that you can see what you look like when you're doing it.  I've performed before and usually someone will record it and I just watch that to see what I looked like.  Now that I'm mostly just writing and recording, I don't really have a way to see what I look like.  I have a few videos I made, but that seems to miss the point a little bit.  Also, I'm trying to see how the music and writing fit together even though they aren't actually intended to fit together.  But, they can exist in the same space and it's interesting to see how that works as an overall show type of thing.  I have a feeling that good things will come from doing this.