Category: Music

Morning Car Music

I was able to get out to the movie theater parking lot to do some singing in the car. Success. Well, success-ish.

I had five songs ready to record. I was hoping to get to all of them, but I only had a little more than an hour and that probably isn’t enough time for five songs, even when I work with my super low standards. I got through three of the songs and then had to go home. I had time remaining, and I still had some voice left. I wasn’t tired, I could have kept going. Unfortunately, one of the roadblocks you encounter when you’re mentally defective and can’t sing when other people are around and therefore have to go to an empty parking lot to sing in the car when you have voice parts to record is that if you need to go to the bathroom, you need to go home.

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The view from my recording studio this morning!

2023 50/90 Challenge Day 13/90

I worked on six songs today. I think I can remember what I did on each of them.

I put rhythm guitars on three songs and lead guitars on two. I then added lyrics and a melody to one of the songs that got rhythm tracks. I then took one song idea that was just three, eight bar phrases and worked out a song form and added lyrics and a melody to it. That makes six songs, right?

I wanted to do some car music today but the rain was terrible (again) and I went back to bed. I hope to try again tomorrow. There are five songs ready for singing. We’ll see how things unfold in the morning.

Sunday Guitar

I put rhythm guitars on three songs today, and lead guitars on two. I went direct, even though it’s not nearly as much fun as using a speaker. Oh well. I could hear Jen talking on the phone upstairs when I started playing and I didn’t want to disturb her. I figured I’d be a nice guy and keep things quiet.

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2023 50/90 Challenge Day 12/90

Lots of progress today. I put rhythm guitars on five songs and lead guitar onto one. That’s it. Now that I write it down it doesn’t seem like a lot, but the six songs with progress felt like a super big deal at the time.

The works in progress playlist has been updated. The songs are in order of when they were started, not when they were last worked on.

I have three songs ready for vocals. I’m hoping for car music in the morning. We’ll see if I can get it done.

Fun with Guitars

I recorded guitars for a bunch of songs today. The performances suck to the high heavens, but they exist so… yeah.

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I did not record direct today. I had a mic on a speaker like the old timers used to do. Direct signals are fine and all, but making actual noise is so much better. Every time.

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2023 50/90 Challenge Day 11/90

Not a lot today. I wrote lyrics and melody for one song, also arranging a song form for that same song. I added song idea #18 as well. The hope is that I will play shit loads of guitar tomorrow and then do car music and more guitar on Sunday. I expect to have at least a couple of songs ready to mix by Monday.

That’s the goal at least. I also need to get an oil change and an inspection sticker on one of the cars. That has to happen tomorrow, so we’ll see if that throws off my place in the universe at all.

Wish me luck. I am so happy the weekend is here. Now it’s almost bed time so I am going to watch some Doctor Who. The next episode is called Blink and I hear it’s one of the best from the current series. Let’s find out, shall we?

2023 50/90 Challenge Day 10/90

90 days is about three months. What is 50/3? 16.6. Rounding to the nearest integer means in order to complete 50 songs in 90 days you should average 17 songs per month.

How did I do on day 10? I added two more loose song ideas. How many song ideas are in the pipeline now?

17.

Yeah, babie.

Close but Not Quite

10 minutes before I was supposed to leave for the first full band practice in 3.5 years our singer let us know he was going to be stuck at work and had to back out.

Damn it.

The rest of us still got together. It was loud and fun, the way it should be. I’m not sure when we will be able to try for all four of us again but hopefully it will be soon.

My playing was terrible but most of the songs we played came back to me… eventually. It was good to see Kevin and Mike, and it was fun to play music with other people.

Until next time….

Packed Up and Ready

I have an amp and a pedal board at Mike the Bass Player’s house already. Pretty sure there are a bunch of mic stands too. I packed the bare minimum. A mic and a cable. Two guitar cables and an over drive pedal. One electric guitar. One pack of emergency strings.

Assuming my amp works… I’m ready to play.

Now I just have to finish the work day and drive to Mike’s house. I’m ready, kids!