I found an easier way to write songs

Last week Steven and I have agreed that we will go to Luis’s house every Saturday starting last weekend so that his wife Terran , a very talented guitar player and composer, can help me write songs for my upcoming album.
Well, we got there, and because it was before noon on a weekend, I was very sleepy and unprepared, so I didn’t take my CD with me.
I had a pretty odd day while I was there, and Terran, too, was sleepy, so it was kinda boring.
In was almost at the end of the day when we finally came up with a way to make songs just by listening to rhythm and cords.
She has the coolest keyboard I’ve ever seen, and it’s got all the instruments, beats, sound effects, and everything in between that I need to create popsongs. I played with it for a little while, then we got together and she was playing the guitar and I was playing the drums on the keyboard. She told me to record this melody on my digital recorder, which has now become a dance song called “waking up the Neighbors”.
It’s funny how I came up with the lyrics for that song, which makes it the first song I have ever had fun writing..
At home, after Steven went to bed, I had so much fun listening to that little arrangement, that I turned the volume up and started dancing. Cokie heard me playing it and dancing to it when she was about to come home, and she told me: “turn that down a little bit, you’re gonna wake up the neighbors!”. That gave me the idea for the title of the song.
A few hours after that, after I finish trying to figure out a way to work with a song Terran herself had written for me, but didn’t sound quite appropriate, I decided to just get up and play and dance with the track again, and that’s how I came out with the lyrics. My favorite part is the chorus, where I get into a higher octive and sing “It’s so fun waking up the neighbors, with my music so loud
I wanna raise my voice and sing it, yeah, sing it all out.”
I also like the part after the chorus, where I make a little dance, snap my fingers, and sing “sing and dance all night,
Sing and dance all night,
I’m gonna sing and dance all night”.
Cokie liked the part where I said “I was born to dance and sing, yeah,
I was born to jam”.
It was such a fun song to write, that it’s been stuck in my mind for the last 3 days.

I also have another song ready to be recorded, “your offer”, which I have written for my uncle on his birthday.
I have a couple more songs I’m still working on, one of them, “don’t ever step on my dreams”, a song full of frustration, not only with OSD, but against anybody who had tried, or are still trying to keep me from making my dreams come true, and another one which I’m still not done writing.

More news: A copy of “Bag of dreams is now available for download at voice123.com, and also upon request. If you wish to have not only the coppy of the whole song, but also a video, videos are now being forwarded via email.

Last minute news: upcoming show this Saturday, September 26, at the concert hall at the Austin’s concervatory, starting at 7 pm to 9 pm. There will be other teachers and students performing, and I’ll be singing “bag of Dreams” and 2 other songs if I can. There will be food andgames, it will be fun!

I’m finallyacceptedfor theACC choir. The choir director called me on Monday to let me know that they wanted me to sing with them, and nextMonday I’ll start going to the rehearsals. I can’t wait until that crappy people at OSD watch me perform, I’ll kick their butts!

And last, but not least of all of the news for this week, 2 people have offered to help me look for work as a singer in bands, or to help me find places to go out and perform. One of them was a cab driver who knows a lead singer from a blues band, and some other young guys from a pop band, and the other one is my notetaker from my writing class, who told me that her mom used to be a singer. I hope I find work some day.

Well, gotta go take a nap while I still can,more updates next week.

H I L.