One year ago today we unwittingly took on a behemoth of a challenge that we called New Song November. To launch our Youtube page, we set out to learn, arrange, record, and share one new song every day for the month of November. And holy hell was it a wild month!
We had no idea how it would push us to our edge every day, 30 days in a row. We learned gobs along the way, had a ton of fun, and also got to confront more than a few our demons as we plowed right through the edges of our comfort zones.
We have so much to say about this experience, that for the rest of the month we will be sharing one song a day from last year’s recording along with a little reflection, insight or encouragement from our experience.
When we did the New Song November Challenge last year, it didn’t take long to realize how important it was to have FUN! The challenge ended up pushing us to such edges that it was really easy to get frustrated and tense. Sometimes we would mess up the same part over and over, Nathan’s guitar […]
Spending the time to learn this song and really be present with the lyrics, it was very apparent how somber and pained it is underneath the glittery pop production. In the same way that the character in the song is running from their pain and numbing shame through drinking and party, the message of the […]
One thing that became abundantly clear throughout the course of this challenge to learn, arrange, record and post a new song every day in November last year was the power of intention and goal setting. We so often go through our lives with an energy regulator, constantly metering our output out of a fear that […]
Day 1 – New Song November Challenge!
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