Day 34 is the same as day 33. Two new songs. MIDI bass and drums are done. That’s it. We’re up to 35 songs in the pipeline now. I’m going to need to start recording guitars and writing lyrics soon. I need to get some momentum going again and I need to do it soon.
Category: Music
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 33/90
Not a lot happened on day 33, but what I got to was okay.
Two new songs. The pipeline is up to 33 now. Both newbies have MIDI Bass and drums. They were both noodled out starting with bass lines. I have a sneaking suspicion that one of them is going to end up being too difficult to play on the guitar. We’ll see.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 32/90
Day 32 (yesterday) was a good day.
It started with adding vocal tracks to five songs. Next I came up with MIDI bass and drums and the song form for three songs. Next, two of those new song forms and one additional song got rhythm guitars. Finally, one of the morning’s vocals got lead guitars.
Today (day 33) is an office day for me so the time is going to be short. I’ll do what I can and see what happens.
Play
Did I play any guitar today? Why yes, yes I did. rhythm guitars on three songs and lead on one. I played my number one, my Les Paul Custom. It went well. I am hoping I have a little more playing in me for later this afternoon. Here’s hoping.
Car Music: Complete
I was much later getting started than I like to be but I did pull off a car music this morning. I put vocals on five songs. I now have songs that are ready for some guitar tracks. Maybe we’ll pick some of those off today too. This might be a good day, I think.
Pictures… not iPhone, but Z5. I took my camera with me. Two days in a row I took it outside. Nice.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 31/90
Lyrics. Lots of lyrics. Melodies too. Five songs in total. Enough to justify a car music trip to start day 32… assuming I can get my shit together here. I overslept a little and I have a few things to do before I sing in the car.
Get to it, Robert.
Car Music Tomorrow
I didn’t play guitar today, but I did set myself up for a nice vocal session in the car tomorrow morning. Assuming I don’t massively oversleep, which is starting to seem more and more likely.
Car music, kids! Let’s do this! After I sleep, of course. I’m totally exhausted.
Futurama was Wrong
I was just playing a game of Space Invaders on an Atari 2600 emulator I found online. I had a pretty good game.
Then I thought of that one episode of Futurama where the aliens from planet Omicron Persei 8 invade and Fry defends the Earth armed with his bottle of Shasta and his all Rush mix tape.
So I put on the Moving Pictures album to see if listening to Rush would improve my game. While it did improve my mood and my general sense of mental well being (that album RULES), it did not improve my game. Not even a little bit.
I guess the bottle of Shasta is the missing link. Either that or Futurama was wrong, and we all now Futurama is never wrong.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 30/90
Day 30 wasn’t terribly active but I wasn’t shut out. I added one new song idea. Just a couple of bass riffs.
That’s it.
The weekend is here now, so hopefully I’ll have more to report for the next couple of days.
Scheduling Things is Difficult
The band’s facebook messenger chat page is exploding right now. We’re trying to get all four of us into a room together and it’s proving to be more difficult than ever before. Our traditional 6pm on Sunday rehearsal time is not doable. We’re waffling back and forth between earlier on Sundays and after work on Thursdays. Thursdays appear to be in the lead at the moment.
Scheduling things is difficult. Was it this hard to do when we were kids? Is this an adult thing? Is it a middle aged adult thing? It’s tough to say. Sometimes acting like a grown up sucks, but what can you do? The alternative (not being a grown up) is probably worse.
Okay. We’re booked for Thursday. I put it on my Google Calendar. It is officially set in stone now. Or something like that.
Inside the Red Head's Head 