Today would have been my parents’ 57th wedding anniversary. Instead it is the second wedding anniversary since my mother passed away. It’s a sad day, but it’s also a happy day. I need to call my father and just tell him I love him.
Credit where credit is due, my cousin Erin took these two photos at my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary party back in 2017. Thanks, Erin!
Day 25 was pretty sweet. I worked on 8 songs in total. One got rhythm guitars, and seven got lead guitars. Two of those lead guitar songs also got mixed and moved into the finished songs bucket. The total count of finished songs is up to 12. Only 38 to go.
Day 26 (today) is a Monday… so back to work… which means less time for music. Here’s hoping I can still make a nice dent. There are three more days left in July (including today). Could I get the finished song count up to 20 before the month ends?
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve hit some of these marks. It feels good to be back on track.
I mixed two songs today. Listening back it is clear that they were written on the same day because they are kinda the same thing.
Except one is okay and the other isn’t really okay at all.
12 songs down, 38 to go.
I went back to my guitar this afternoon. I thought my finger tips were hurting this morning. Damn, are they hurting more right now! It’s all good though. Power through the pain today and soon enough the calluses will be back and playing will be pain free once again.
I’ve put guitars onto eight songs today in total. One song got rhythm guitar tracks and the other seven got leads. Good day, me thinks.
Today had one of those moments. One of those sad moments that jump out of nowhere and make you sad.
Tomorrow would have been my parents’ 57th wedding anniversary. Instead it’s the second anniversary since she passed away and that is making me sad today.
I did go and visit her today. That made me feel a little better. It’s funny how that works, right?
Guitars! I didn’t do a singing-in-the-car trip this morning because I’ve run out of songs that are ready for vocal tracks. Instead, I put rhythm guitars onto one song and leads onto four. I have three more songs ready for lead guitars. I wanted to pick those off too but my fingers were starting to hurt and I needed to take a break. If I can get back to them later then I will have run out of songs that are ready for guitar tracks as well as running out of songs ready for voice parts. Looks like it’s time to start writing some new riffs and some new lyrics. Outside of that, I have a big stack of songs ready to mix.
I’m feeling pretty good about the state of this year’s 50 songs in 90 days silliness.
Day 24 was a good day. I put vocals on five songs. That’s five songs that have gone past my personal bottleneck. Vocals are where things always get hung up for me.
After that I mixed two songs. That’s two songs moved to the complete bucket and posted to Alonetone.com, my personal source of truth. Nice. That brings me to a total of 10 songs finished. Only 40 left to go. We’re 20% complete, kids.
The first attempt at a batch of home made sugar free ice cream is underway!
My wife did this. She is AMAZING!!
