I have failed miserably on the 50/90 front today, but I did manage to sneak in a quick mix.

Polyrhythms for the win… or the train wreck, depending on your mood, I guess.

I mentioned in a post the other day that the recording process for this year’s 50/90 challenge has been reduced to quick and dirty and it’s okay if things aren’t perfect, I just need them to be done. There isn’t enough time left on the game clock for nitpicking. That’s why I was able to mix three songs today in the hour and a half I spent struggling through lunch.

Of the three, one song is okay. One song is less than terrible. One song is almost terrible. Here I am sharing the one that’s okay. I am 90% sure I have written this song before but I am too lazy to go looking for it.

I now have 15 songs finished. 30% of the challenge is complete. Not bad considering I blew off almost three weeks this month.

I’ve already written about most of this, but in the interest of completeness and transparency (why?) here’s an official write up of today’s 50/90 challenge activities.

I put vocals on five songs.

I wrote a new song including MIDI bass and drums, the full song form, all of the rhythm guitar tracks, the melody and the lyrics.

I put rhythm guitars onto an additional three songs, one of which was played on my step son’s guitar.

I put lead guitars onto five songs including a couple of the songs that got vocal tracks this morning.

I wrote lyrics and melodies to three additional songs on top of the one I already mentioned.

Looks like another car music is in store for tomorrow morning. Excellent.

I already wrote about car music this morning. I put vocals on three songs. What have I done since then?

Well, first I added another song idea. That’s idea number 35. It’s just bass riffs for now. Later, after dinner tonight, I started writing melodies and lyrics. I got through five songs. Count ’em, five songs. They are all crap, but that gives me more than enough for another round of car music tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll follow the morning car music with a pile of guitar tracks. I am hoping to use my step son’s Epiphone beginner model Les Paul copy on at least a song or two, and hopefully that will happen tomorrow.

Plans are in place, I just have to follow through. Progress!

I mentioned this morning that I put rhythm guitars on two songs and lead guitars on two other songs. Tonight after dinner, while binging season six of the original Doctor Who, I wrote lyrics and melodies for three songs.

You know what that means?

Car music in the morning.

That’s the plan at least. We’ll see if it pans out or not. Fingers crossed. I’ll let you know.

What do you say we try to guilt me into working on the 50/90 challenge by trying to post daily updates again? Think that will work?

Neither do I.

Here goes anyway.

I put rhythm guitars onto two songs, lead guitars onto one song, and added one new song idea. That makes 32 songs in the pipeline.

• 32 songs underway
• 1 song is just a few bass riffs without any structure
• 11 songs have rhythm guitars but no lyrics or melodies
• 2 songs have lyrics and melodies but no vocals
• 2 songs have vocals but no lead guitars
• 4 songs have lead guitars but need to be mixed down
• 12 songs have been mixed and are finished

And that, dear readers, is where we stand right now. 41 days left. That’s probably not enough to get me to 50 songs with mixed demoes. We’ll see how close I can get though.