Began to write/record songs today - and tried to liken it to painting a picture.

(the last time I painted a picture was in 7th grade)

So from what I remember- first I took a brush and vaguely plotted out the landscape and sky using blobs of color… a mountain here, a friendly little bush there, a water tower in the distance. Then, I’d fill in the details- reflections of the trees in the lake, leaves on the ground, shadows, someone’s lost sunglasses on the picnic bench…
(once I painted Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elmstreet in the background of a nice picnic scene… hey! I was in 7th grade!)

but yeah, painting.

It’s a lot tougher to do with music. Questions arise:
…is this chord foggy enough? Is this key too sunny? Are my words contradicting the picture that the notes are painting?

More later…