#littlelate

[makeyour0wnsunshine]

Finally came around to watching the Rep tour on Netflix ❤️❤️ it’s SOOO AMAZING OMG 😊😊 @taylorswift 😊😊 #taylorswift #reputation #reptour #reptournetflix #reputationstadiumtour #littlelate #butbetterlatethannever #soamazing #netflix #omgomgomg https://www.instagram.com/musicislifejd/p/Bv2q0gVhHaT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=twwqpkaxjoh6

[kat-denningsss]

#tbt with these two #wcw's

[buzzinbillyboy]

Our parents bless us on Happy #NationalSonsDay #NationalSonsDay2021 We love our parents! #littlelate https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYC3mivUIgWMLcRm26TGpRQfFU7GCbRVfARTY0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[shellymusyj]

Grow babies grow! 🥒🥗🙏#gardening #homestead #farmlife #farmher #littlelate #homesteadlife #vegetablegarden #cucumber #squash #garden #horticulture (at Annie's Creek) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC2Y7JcBa26/?igshid=1j2i6h56m2pnh

[rissmichelle]

New #hair everyone saw it first🤷🏻‍♀️ #littlelate #grey #blackandgrey https://www.instagram.com/p/CCy1PLuH7F9/?igshid=1h4rzdw1vwro8

[mellofellowblog]

Welcome to the Melloblog

Hello there internet My name is Mellofellow and I’m a songwriter who if he’s being perfectly honest with himself isn’t very good at writing songs.

Lets work on that. 2020: A new year, a new decade for the calendar and for myself, a new decade in days spent breathing when I turn 30 next week. Like I’m sure a lot of people have done already, I’ve convinced myself that this is going to be the year that I make some changes to better myself, particularly changes to my approach to songwriting in the hopes that I will keep pushing up that mountain and make some music that I can be proud of. Like a lot of people January came and went and things were looking up in terms of actually following through on these goals, but then February came around and it was a bit harder to keep the effort consistent. It’s so easy to miss a day, a week, a month or even your yeeear when it comes to actually following through on things, but I’m going to try my best to double down on my goals by starting this blog where my efforts will be laid out for potentially all to see, even if it’s much more likely that no one but myself will actually find read this. Still, at the very least since there will be concrete internet receipt evidence of the days that I post, I should be more likely to follow through and actually sit down and do something for this page. So how is this blog going to help my songwriting? Well in the brainstorming I did at the start of the year I’ve set some reasonable yet challenging goals for daily exercises that are only going to bit by bit make me a better songwriter. The progress might be so glacial that it would be hard to notice any change at all, but over time it’s only going to move me forward (or at least more forward than where I would be doing nothing).

These exercises and hence types of posts for this blog (stolen from a couple of days of binge-watching youtube songwriting tutorials) are: Song Analysis - breaking down the songs that I like or think that I might learn something from into how they do the things they set out to do in an attempt to potentially reverse engineer techniques for my own writing. Things like what are the themes of the song? how do the lyrics convey the message the song wants the listener to feel? how does the lyric complement the melody? Coming from a more scientific background I plan on having a bit of a template on how to strip down a song into its parts to see how it was put together, which might be seen as missing a little of the point of the artistic expression from the song, but really its just my way of diving a little deeper into songs intellectually after I got so much out of them emotionally already. Sensory writing -  a kind of abstract stream of consciousness descriptive writing exercise to expand my writing vocabulary. Not to jump too far ahead, but most of my actual songwriting process is very off the cuff/in the moment where you are instinctually coming up with lryics and music on the spot, a lot like solo improvising in musical terms. While in a good songwriting flow you kind of subconsciously draw on your skills that are in there and things fit into place, so becoming better at sensory writing will basically prepare me for being able to draw on these skills in the moment when I am inspired. In addition to this I will also obviously be actually writing songs and/or lyrics, but if i do end up posting anything like that it will more likely be a finished product. It’s tough to put out the raw process of making something and to be honest i’m kind of more hyper-focussing on the lyrical side of things because I’m quite comfortable with my musical abilities when it comes to writing. If anything I’m a little too comfortable. I feel like i hide my lyrics/story/the actual song behind a groove or melody and its this disrespect for the importance of lyrics that is holding me back from becoming a GOOD songwriter rather than a guy who can write music on a bunch of instruments. Also you know, due to the written nature of the blog lyric breakdown kind of makes sense. Anyways, hope you enjoy the ride potential-reader-who-is-more-than-likely-just-me-from-the-future!

[emarwood]

Back during my Portsmouth and Winchester #Christmas weekend. #happychristmas and #happynewyear everyone, even if it is a #littlelate #oops #droppedtheball https://www.instagram.com/p/B7CPblCnDrN/?igshid=34j8l60kzr74

[lmm12108]

#lunch #littlelate 🤷🏼‍♀️ #chickenparmesan #brownrice #mixedveggies #omg #delish #food #goodishforyou https://www.instagram.com/p/B61TWAvnX_y/?igshid=fqt6ocfmlqdk