Breaking Through: My Path to Full Musical Autonomy

I initially wanted to make a video for this but for now a blogpost will have to do. In a nutshell, this is just to let you know what I have planned for the upcoming "Directive: Sole Abandon" challenge and what you can expect from that.

Up until now, I have done a number of challenges aimed at creating songs day after day. The first challenge, aside from all the other songs I made before this, was writing 31 songs in 31 days using instrumentals I found on various platforms from other producers.

The same for the second challenge. In essence, I proved to myself that I could write songs day after day. Those 62 songs were all written by me over instrumentals that someone else had created.

The third challenge however had me creating beats and instrumentals of my own. That is, no words, no singing or rapping, but 93 instrumentals in 62 days. All brand new and never before heard. So, in that, I then proved to myself I can create my own instrumentals, cut and dry.

Moving on, the idea for Directive: Sole Abandon is to try and marry these two skills creating full songs from the ground up. My own created instrumentals and beats, plus my own written lyrics and vocals. In doing so, I will have broken through into a territory of music previously unexplored and unknown to me.

For the years that I've been making music, I've only ever used other people's music so I think now that I can produce my own songs outside of only writing and doing vocals, I'm giving myself a chance to take for a spin everything that I've yet to know for sure I know how to do now.

It's a game changer for me because to become my own producer means to not have to rely on anyone else for anything inside the music that I create and for me, that would be a good place to be.

This challenge, and it is a challenge, will see me putting one foot in front of the other, day after day for the 31 days that I can break open this undoing and allow the inspiration to try and pour forth through me all that I am wanting and intending to make possible.

One song per day, produced, written, and recorded by me and me alone.

I'm not sure how it's going to look coming out the other side of this or if any of those songs will be worth keeping or what styles I will create in or what will ultimately be made but for me, success lies totally in the fact that I went for it and completed the entire 31 days.

Regardless ... they will all be mine. All 31 of them-produced, written and recorded by my own hand. And for me that's really saying something. Wish me luck! I'll keep you in the loop for when I start.