larcollins|music - "Boyfriend"

I'm starting a new feature here to showcase my work in music. Here's entry number 1!

I've never been a prolific songwriter. I love the process, but inspiration tends to be a fleeting thing. I may crank out one to two songs a year at the most. To be a professional in that area you have to crank out at least one a day! It doesn't always have to be good, but that's the workout you have to give yourself to build up your songwriting muscle.

Because of this I decided to shift my focus to music production. I've always produced my own stuff - stuff I've written - but I wanted to see what the process would be like producing someone else. Low and behold, it's a lot more fun to play with someone else's song! I've discovered doing your own stuff is kind of like giving yourself a haircut.

Below is a song written and sung by my friend Cyndi Vellmure. I played bass in Cyndi's band for a few years and had some of her demos laying around. I decided to take one of those demos, chop it up in my recording software (Reaper) to fix the timing and see how well I could frost that cake. For comparison here is the original demo with just guitar and vocal I consider this my first official foray into music production work.  Now I need to find more songwriters to work on my production muscle.  If you know anyone who wants their song produced for free, send them my way.