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2nd to Last Day

RPM ends tomorrow. What do I have left to do?

Mix one song.
Decide if I want to drop any songs from the playlist. I need 10, I have 15. There’s lots of wiggle room. One looks dropable, another is a gimmick so it’s probably dropable too. Plenty left to make up a decent running order.
Come up with a running order. There are four songs that suck less than the rest. Those will go first. After that? No idea.
Make up an insert. I used to use a make a cd cover website. I hope that’s still up. I also need to put my name on the picture I posted yesterday.
Either mail the thing out, or drive to Portsmouth and drop it off. I might drop it off this year. It depends on how my wife is feeling (she has a cold) and how much homework she has to do.

Then figure out what music project is next.

13 Songs Finished

I mixed a song at lunch time today and it immediately went onto the cut list. I just don’t like it. So I am not posting it here. Then after playing karate chauffeur to the kids all evening I mixed this one. It also probably belongs on the cut list, but it isn’t so bad.

And One More Makes 11

Song #11. I started this one last night, after I had already sketched out song #14, with 14 songs being the goal. So this is sort of overkill, but I like it more than most of the other songs so it’s a keeper.

Tracking is Complete

Unless I miscounted or forgot something, tracking for this year’s RPM Challenge/FAWM is complete. It should be 14 songs and one very cheesy instrumental thingie. I added a song last night before bed and finished it up today. I used my amp for the last two songs worth of guitar parts, and then re-recorded one of the other songs using the amp as well. There was one more I wanted to re-do, but I am out of time. The takes I have are okay so the song still works out. Now I have to mix the last six songs, and remix one from the other day that I think is no longer acceptable. Three days left.

Promotaversary

One year ago today I was promoted to supervisor. Nothing is more amazing to me than the simple fact that my promotion did not somehow result in the economic collapse of the free market economy, followed by the destruction of the Earth’s core.

How am I celebrating my Promotaversary? By taking the day off, of course. There are deer in the yard celebrating with me, and this afternoon the kids will be here too. I was thinking of a popcorn binge fest at the movies, but are there any decent movies playing?

Before that though…. I have lyrics to write and vocals to record for four songs. Today is the day that RPM gets its major vocal push! Bring it on!

Finish Line in Sight

The finish line is in sight for both the RPM Challenge and FAWM.

I put a very crappy vocal onto a song this morning before work.  Once that song is mixed, there will be 10 songs and more than 35 minutes.  Check and Check for RPM.  There are also three additional songs that I hope to put vocals on tomorrow.  If I can do that it will bring me up to 13 songs, one shy of a complete FAWM.

Last night, just before bed, I sketched out a little instrumental thing.  It will just basically be bass and guitar trading off.  Nothing terribly interesting there.  However, there is a bed consisting of a looped recording of the water dripping off of our picture window into a bunch of metal pots.  I recorded a couple of minutes worth of that sound and then chopped it into pieces so that it can drift around the stereo field, and every few seconds it will add more and more reverb and echo.  In all it will sound tres stupid, but it counts in my book.

That means I have one guitar part to finish and three vocals, and then mix mix mix.  If I am feeling dangerous tonight I might try to add another short vocal song.  That would mean I have to finish four vocals by about noon tomorrow, but it might be worth a shot.