Happy Leap Day

Guitar, Music, Recording, Song Writing 1 Minute

Happy Leap Day, everyone! February 29th! IF today’s your birthday then you’ve been waiting four years for this day. Congratulations and make the most of it!

Leap Day means it’s the last day of February which means the RPM Challenge ends today. I have mixed two of the remaining six songs this morning but I have to put off the rest of them until after work tonight. I also have to finish cleaning out the kitchen so that everything is ready for kitchen demolition day tomorrow. I also also need to setup a little kitchen-esque space in our bed room, just in case we decide we need to cook something.

The mixes have been very quick and dirty and rough at best this year so I am sort of plowing through them with the minimum amount of time and effort. I’ll get the last four in tonight without too much of a problem. The question is whether any of them will be good enough to use on the final album.

I have 20 songs. I need 10 to submit an album to the RPM Challenge website. I will pick the best 10 songs and bundle them into something that resembles an album. I will take the remaining 10 pieces of dog shit and bundle them into something that resembles an outtake album. I’ll submit the 10 good songs and not submit the dog shit. Unfortunately, there are probably only four or five songs that I think are good enough to submit… so some shit is going to make it’s way into the submitted album. Oh well. That’s normal for me. I just have to decide what songs to include.

Here’s one I just finished. It will probably be included, though in a better year it would not have been. Oh well.

Four songs left to mix, then I need a cover image and a sequence. That’s all that remains for this year’s RPM Challenge. Almost there, folks. Almost there.

Happy Leap Day.

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5 thoughts on “Happy Leap Day”

    1. RPM stands for Record Production Month. It’s a challenge to record an album’s worth of music entirely within the month of February. It started with a local magazine in Portsmouth, NH in 2006 and moved online in 2007. It brings in a few hundred people every year and some of us get a little crazy while working on it.

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      1. What fun! The website it’s modeled after NaNoRiMo, which is also a cool challenge. My sister told me about a band called The First of October who go into the studio on the first of october and write and produce an entire album. When you finish your album, check out their latest: Across the Road. Congratulations again on taking on such a huge challenge.

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