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Please feel free to critique, as it helps me to learn.

Well, I’m very thankful that I don’t have the insane schedule that I had last year, though I made it work out. This year affords me more time even though life is just busy. So, with some spare time I’ve changed my recording setup so that it is more flexible and efficient and gotten some new (to me) instruments to use this year. I’m going to have a few special guests coming to record with me again this year, as THAT is one of my favorite parts of my FAWM experience. Otherwise, I think some sounds will be very familiar, but others will be new and different.

I play what sounds good to me. FAWM is fun because I have complete control, for better or for worse. My goals this year are to improve on my mic choice and placement, mixing/eq-ing, and hopefully encourage as many of the people around me to be a part of FAWM to any degree, including my wife and two sons, if possible. I also would enjoy collaborating again with my brother, @zecoop (thank you for getting me into this), as well as others who are interested. Writing another children's song with my boys is another goal; I did manage to reach that goal the last several years and I just love doing it. In terms of songwriting, I would like to start with basics and build from there. I tend to be very chordy and would like to give my songs some more space for layering of sounds and texture.

I truly admire the creativity in others and am energized when I am fortunate to have a spark myself, too. I also do appreciate collaborations and will do whatever I have time for.
*A note about collabs: If someone wants to collab on a song that I've posted, I am fine with that and will post it separately. I also am fine with multiple people doing the same song, as I find it fascinating to see how different people do very different things with the same music. My wife always gets the first choices on songs, of course.