One of my goals for this year was to write more songs. More specifically a whole album’s worth of new material. Well the year is almost half over and I don’t have much in the way of new material. So I decided that instead of waiting for the songs to magically happen, I would try an experiment to see if I could be a bit more methodical about it.

Here’s the recipe. I picked “A” for the key, “Harmonic Minor” for the scale, found the chords in the scale here, started fooling around with chord progressions and inversions, came up with lyrics using random cards I picked from this cool game called “The Storymatic” and a couple hours later had a new song: