Guitar

While camped out in your new home away from home, you realize it is possible you just might go stir crazy because you’ve already gone for a walk, stretched, read a book, watched some tube, taken a bath, and cauliflowered your ear from talking hours on the phone. Suddenly when it feels like you’ve run the imagination and resourcefulness dry, now is actually the perfect time to write a tune.

So you finally have a few tunes under your belt. Now it is time for a process or creation of a method for a maintenance program of your ever-developing library of music. I have been able to maintain about a five-hour repertoire in standard and multiple tunings this way and for me it seems to work quite well.

Mapping a piece of music out is similar to planning a car trip. It’s that simple. You get a map, look at your options, and take off. Along the way there might be detours and there could be a choice of routes to travel, with one way or the other not always better than the other. For example, you might select a more a scenic route for a potentially longer drive or pick the super highway for more of a direct route.

Once the process of learning a new piece of music is underway I almost look at it as if I’m building a house -which is a rather odd analogy since I honestly can’t even fix our leaky kitchen faucet.