Off-the-clock songwriter and busker.
Guitar, writing songs, and playing them to strangers.
This is the pillar with no professional claim attached to it. I write songs badly and slowly, I play them on the street, and the street is honest about which ones work. Kept here the same way the training log is kept: what I did, what happened, what I would change.
What’s here
Four things, none of them a career
Songwriting
How songs get drafted, finished, or quietly abandoned. Logged the way training is logged, not romanticised.
Feedback loopBusking
Street performance as the honest audience. Sets, spots, and what strangers’ feet say that friends will not.
RosterThe Instruments
What is in the room and what each one is actually for. The list itself is still coming.
ListeningThe Songs
A playlist of the ones that got finished. Link goes up once there is something worth pointing at.
Songwriting & busking
The writing practice, and the audience that grades it
What Busking Teaches You in the First Sixty Seconds
A stranger decides in a minute. What that does to song selection, arrangement, and the ego attached to both.
Read → SongwritingAn Engineer Learns to Finish a Song
Ship small, ship often, done beats perfect. Some of that transfers to songwriting. Some of it makes the song worse.
Read → BuskingThe 10 Most Popular Buskers
Ten street performers worth knowing about, and what each one demonstrates about holding a crowd that did not stop for you.
Read → GearThe Instruments: What Each One Is For
Why I own more instruments than I am good at, and what I would tell myself before buying the next one.
Read → SongwritingThe 10 Most Popular Acoustic Songwriters
The names that show up on every credible list, and what I am still trying to learn from each of them.
Read →The instruments
More of them than the playing justifies
Details coming
Make, model, and what it actually gets used for. Not filled in yet.
Details coming
Make, model, and what it actually gets used for. Not filled in yet.
Details coming
Make, model, and what it actually gets used for. Not filled in yet.
Details coming
Make, model, and what it actually gets used for. Not filled in yet.
The roster is deliberately blank rather than approximated. It goes up instrument by instrument once the real list exists.
The songs
The ones that got finished