As promised, when we started talking about 5in5 this year, I mentioned that I had some bonuses planned for you. To better understand them, let me first tell a quick backstory…
When we began 5in5 I originally wanted to call it 5in5in5 which meant (in my mind) 5 songs in 5 days in the 5th month (May). But the title seemed too confusing – even to me. So I shortened it to 5in5 and that seemed much better; however, I still sometimes think about it being 5in5in5. This year when thinking about that old title (5in5in5) I realized a cool little math thing which I will now try to explain plainly.
By the end of our 5 days of 5in5 songwriting we end up with 5 songs. 5 songs is as many songs as there have been months this year = 5. Everyone still with me? Not trying to turn this into a difficult math problem, but to recap: we have had 5 months so far in 2013 and we now have 5 songs that we have written. This is no small feat, but I think you have even more in you…
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