Let’s see… I put all of the guitar tracks onto one song before work. After work I added another song (why?) and then mixed song number 49. The project is officially 98% complete.
I’m hoping day 86 is going to look pretty much the same.
Category: Guitar
Early Morning Play Time
I mentioned last night that I stupidly added a song to the 50 songs in 90 days pipeline even though I was almost finished with the whole project and there is less than a week left before it ends.
What I didn’t mention was that I put all of the guitar tracks, both lead and rhythm, on the song this morning before work. I could have spent that time mixing a song or something and actually getting closer to being finished but no… I played the guitar.
I did it and I am not sorry.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 84/90
I over did things without making any major progress. Somehow… I guess.
I mixed a song. That’s good. Before I did that though I added a song. MIDI bass and drums down as well as a melody and lyrics. The pipeline is up to 54 songs now. Why did I do that?
48 Down
I mixed another song. It’s been uploaded to Alonetone.com and cross posted to the 50/90 challenge page. 48 songs down. Two more completes the challenge for this year. I’m 96% finished.
Dumbass
All I had to do was mix a few song demoes and I could call the 50 songs in 90 days challenge done.
What did I do instead? I added another song.
What a dumbass.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 83/90
I mixed one song last night, just before bed. That’s all I had time for. 47 songs complete. Three more to finish the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. Three more on top of that to empty my in-progress pipeline.
I have 11 songs that were started in September. It would be more fun if there were 15, don’t you think? I have this weird compulsion to add four more songs. I think this whole project might be getting to me. We’ll see.
47 Songs Down
47 songs down and three to go in order to complete the 50 songs in 90 days challenge for 2024.
If I pick out 5-10 songs from this year’s batch to make an “album”, it’s safe to say that this one won’t be included. It’s not the worst song, but it’s not terribly good either. Can 7/8 time swing? I guess not.
Summer Music Becomes Fall Album
I wasn’t going to do this… and then I was. I am going to have over 50 news songs thanks to this year’s 50 songs in 90 days challenge. In the past I’ve picked out about 10 songs from a successful 50/90 and made them into an “album”.
I wasn’t going to do that this year. Then about a month ago I thought maybe I’d do something. Maybe instead of picking 10 out of the 50+ songs I would pick five and do half of an album.
Today I started listening to some of the recordings from July. The first three songs I listened to went onto the list of songs to redo. Then the list grew to four of the first five songs. I stopped listening at that point. I think I need to be way more critical of myself. I’m usually ridiculously over critical, but for some reason today I was thinking this batch of songs might not be that bad. We’ll see if I change my mind over the next few days.
Yeah, we’ll see.
Late
Yesterday was my first day back to work after a week’s vacation. It was not the usual first day back as I walked right into some big process changes that needed to be handled and communicated to my staff. It was an odd day all around.
Today is more like the usual first day back. I left the house at 7:30am and got to the office 10 minutes late.
Yeah… welcome back, Robert.
I did manage to get my exercise in for the day and to take a stupid photo-a-day-challenge picture. Nothing special.
Here’s hoping the rest of the day/week/career is less frustrating.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 82/90
A good day. I put vocals and lead guitars on the last three songs. I also mixed the last song that was started before September 1st.
There are 46 songs mixed and complete. There are seven more ready to mix. 53 in total. There are eight days left. I have more days than songs left to mix. I think I am in good shape.
Inside the Red Head's Head 