So if you take a four bar segment of GarageBand’s drummer, cut it into four individual pieces, and set the fill to maximum, you can almost trick garageband into giving you a drum solo. Almost.
A song about being depressed about winter. Sort of the anthem for all Bostonians these days.
Four songs done. Six to go. (10 if I haven’t given up on FAWM, which I might have done)
I made it all the way to the fourth song before writing a lyric about worrying whether I could finish RPM on time or not. It’s like an annual thing now.
I mixed my second RPM song tonight. I liked it a lot more before I realized that the guitar part was stolen from Tanya Donelly’s song “The River” from the absolutely Earth shatteringly brilliant Throwing Muses album House Tornado. I feel like a tool now.
Today has been a weird telecommute day.
I came home from dropping the kids off before school and put on a load of laundry and filled up the dishwasher. I made myself a little breakfast and sat at my computer looking into blogging options (svbtle isn’t a free service? It used to be free, wasn’t it?). I read a news story about Pixies front man Black Francis. I read up on the Orion launch situation. At about quarter to nine I logged into work for the morning.
At lunchtime I made myself a half cup of quinoa and a bowl full of green grapes. I also took a shower. I usually sacrifice my morning shower time slot to my step daughter on telecommute days. I then told a Comcast door to door salesman that I wasn’t interested in switching off of FiOS and folded that morning’s load of laundry. Now I am writing this in the last few minutes of my break before getting back to work for the afternoon.
Now you may be asking yourself, what’s so weird about all of that?
Well, I’ll tell you.
I haven’t tried to write or record even a single note of music. Since February 1st all of my free time at home on telecommute days was spent working on a music project. It’s December 4th now and I haven’t started a new project. December has been free of original music so far. I don’t know if it’s going to stay that way or not, but it might. I have a left over song from November, another from October, and that big 20 minute sucker from September. Maybe I’ll finish those this month. Maybe not. I’ve thought about re-recording a couple of songs from the distant past. I’ve also been thinking about covering a Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd song. Maybe I’ll do it. Maybe I won’t.
Maybe I’ll take December and January off from writing projects and stick to learning songs for the band. We’ll see.
This is song #9, but it is the seventh song finished this month. There should be at least one, more likely two additional songs before December 1st.
Just a few minutes after I told myself I was done with bluesy songs this month I came up with this thing. It’s like I don’t even pay attention to my own ideas. What a jerk.
Just a note, alonetone seems to be lagging like crazy tonight. I’m not sure if this one is going to be playable. Good luck. You’re gonna need it.
Here is the third October Music song. It’s the first of three 12-bar blues tunes worked on this month.
Here’s another song for October. This makes two. I don’t loathe this one yet, but it is a touch too long.
I haven’t posted any music in a couple of weeks. I promise I am still working on something for the month of October. It just doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
Here’s the first song, complete with crappy sax playing.
Twangie little ditty inspired by how fast my step kids are growing up. Waaaay too fast.
