Done. I whittled the 20 songs down to 13. I was thinking of using 12 but I couldn’t make up my mind between the last two so I kept them both. I just sent it off to rpmchallenge.com and my name is now on the list of winners. Yippee. 14 successful RPM Challenges in a row. What a hero I am. Huzzah and shit.
Now lets see if I can embed a playlist, shall we?
I think Miss Robin is going to be happy when February is over and I stop hyper focusing on RPM Challenge music.
We are a touch more than 11.5 hours into today’s economic blackout. I haven’t spent any money anywhere yet. So far so good.
While I do not expect that this will have any noteworthy affect on any nazi’s bottom line, maybe it will be enough of a statistical anomaly to make said nazis think twice about how they treat their potential customers. It might also serve as a sort of test drive for a future, potential general strike. If enough people take part today, maybe that will be a good sign that a general strike might see enough participation to have some sort of affect.
Like I said, so far so good.
Knowing that today is going to be a very busy day for me, Miss Robin Sparkles has offered to serve as my Emotional Support Cat for the day.
Well… maybe not the day. Maybe the three minutes she was in the room with me before she wandered off. I’ll take it.
I should note that Lily is in the room with me right now and has been for over an hour, but she’s hiding in a closet so she really isn’t much help either.
Tracking is finished. I added lead guitars to the last three songs and then started mixing. I’ve plowed through three mixes already but there are still five left to do. The phrase that pays as far as mixing goes is “quick and dirty.” I just want something to upload, it is not going to be anything particularly good but it will exist and that’s good enough for me today.
This was the last song I started working on, and the last song to get vocals, and the last song to get lead guitars, and the 11th song to be mixed.
Also, I played my Les Paul Custom today and it came through for me on this song. I actually enjoy the leads here. That’s not normal for me on this year’s project.
Yesterday was day 27, which means as I type this it’s day 28 and it’s the last day and I am too panicked (musically) to think straight.
I seriously forget what I accomplished yesterday. I know I did two songs worth of vocals, and I know I mixed four songs. I also did some sax parts but was it two songs or three? I also, also did some lead guitar but was it three songs or four? I think it was three parts each but they combined to finish four songs. I think.
It doesn’t matter. I have two more lead guitar parts to record and then I have to mix EIGHT songs, make a cover photo, and pick the running order for the final album submission.
That sound you hear off in the distance? That’s me screaming in frustration.
Yippee, bro.
I just finished mixing the 12th song for this year’s RPM Challenge. I kinda sorta like it. I think the GarageBand drummer would have worked up quite a sweat if it were a real human being and not a piece of software. Oh well.
12 songs down, eight to go. Two of them still need their last guitar tracks to be recorded. So ridiculously much left to do and I only have tomorrow left to do it. Oh, and I have a full work day to get through too. If I manage to pull it all off then I expect my brain to be a puddle of melted mush by the time I sleep tomorrow.
This song isn’t terrible. It’s okay. I wanted an acoustic head banger and this sort of gets the job done.
The regal, majestic, Lady Robin Sparkles.
This morning I snuck in a few pics to cover today’s photo a day challenge picture. I had just finished adding the final tracks to a song and I picked up the camera while listening to the playback. Here is today’s entry, 180/365:
I almost went with this one instead…
These would have been okay too…
Inside the Red Head's Head 