WELCOME

Hello!

To those of you reading this, I'm absolutely positive you know who I am, but I feel nonetheless that an introduction should be in order.

My name is Jason Unterreiner. This is my music blog, where I will write about my experiences as a musician. This will, I expect, primarily concern itself with songwriting, though it will no doubt also step into other territories. We will see what those are when we get there.

This blog's creation coincides with the start of this year's FAWM. FAWM, for those of you not in the know, stands for "February Album Writing Month." It is a challenge put on yearly at fawm.org where participants strive to write at least 14 songs in the span of February. a song every two days. This is my profile. At the moment, there is nothing posted. It will stay that way until I write something I'm adequately satisfied with.

The typical point of FAWM, as it is often stressed, is to relax one's standards, and just get the creative juices flowing, for better or worse. I think this is a great idea, but nonetheless, this year, I am forsaking it. Every year in the past, I have followed the same path in fawm. I've come out of the gate writing as much as possible, at first to lukewarm success. Then a few songs in, I hit my stride and write some songs that come out really really good. Then I sort of fizzle out and get really bothered by the low quality of the stuff I'm writing. I don't want to do that again, and therefor, I'm intentionally slowing myself down in some respects. I plan to work at a similar clip, but I don't want to prematurely mark a song as finished until I think it deserves that status. So instead of posting songs on fawm.org as soon as possible, I will be posting various drafts here first, only bumping them over to my FAWM profile when I'm happy with them. I do not expect to reach the goal of 14, but I will try.

Some objectives:

- To write songs that properly exploit my vocal abilities.
- To bridge the gap between my distinct songwriting modes (lyrics intensive vsl. structure intensive).
- To work the dynamic potential of a single acoustic guitar as much as possible.
- To kick as much ass as possible.

That is all for now. Expect more later.