Working on Volume 14

 Since my books are pretty much done or on hiatus, I'm really into my music now. As I've posted earlier, I have 13 total albums that I've written, composed, arranged, performed, recorded, and posted on SoundCloud. You can click on any one of them in the right margin of this blog.

I believe every song on every album is great. If I were to rank them like I did for the Black Sabbath albums, there would be several tens, some nines, and nothing under an eight. That's what I think of my music. But note that I am really only ranking the songs. If I were to rate my singing on the songs, well, then, that would be a very different story. I am not a professional singer. Actually, I'm not a singer at all. But hey, it's my music, so I can sing the songs. 

But anyway, I had once thought I would stop at 13 albums, since that's a lot of albums. And a lot of songs. 135 songs to be exact, and all kinds of different songs. Fast, slow, love, ballads, rock, jazzy and more. Alternative rock is what I mostly call the genre of music I have there. And since I will no longer be writing any new books, I am back in the music mode.

So why stop at 13 albums. I had two songs left over from when I stopped writing music about fifteen years ago. So I had always had it in the back of my mind to write at least one more album and reach fourteen albums. At this point I have written nine of the songs that will go on Volume 14. I'm in the process of composing and arranging the tenth song at this time. And I'm very happy with how they have turned out.

Once this tenth song is done, I will write the lyrics and do my singing thing. At that point I hire a man in San Diego to put the CD together, and there you go. Of course, I create the album cover design, as I've done with all the prior albums. And I'll think of an album title. I like what I've done in that regard. Meaning I start the titles as Rockin' the.... So it will be Rockin' the something or other. Sometimes I use a song title to finish the album title, but sometimes I don't. We'll see. I hope to be finished by the end of the summer. At that point, it will be back to being a teacher in the California public school system. Oh, and by the way, I'm back to teaching piano and music now. Not just art. They even bought me a new Yamaha upright piano! How cool is that? No complaints here.