As expected, day 26 was pretty light on progress. I mixed two songs. That brings the count up to 14 songs finished. 14 down, 36 to go. 28% complete. There is still a chance that I may be able to get to 20 before the month of July ends. That would be a double album’s worth of music by RPM Challenge standards. That would be a happy thing.
Tag: 50/90
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 25/90
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?
Two New Songs
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.
More Painful Fun
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.
Ouch
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.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 24/90
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.
Songs
I’ve mixed two songs today. That brings the finished song count for the 50 songs in 90 days challenge to 10. I guess it also means that, by RPM Challenge rules, I have a full album-in-a-month too. Nice.
This is one of the two. I kinda like it. I dipped my toes into a swing groove and it kinda almost works for me. The lead guitar playing isn’t too bad either. I don’t know why, but I seemed to have had a good day that day.
Car Music Saturday
Insert the sound of giggling here.
I did some more car music today. I drove to a not-quite-as-empty-as-I-would-have-liked parking lot in town and sat in the car recording vocal tracks. I got through five songs. Every song in the 50 songs in 90 days pipeline that had lyrics but not vocals, now has vocals. Sweet.
Lily is not impressed with me at all.
Robin is so completely unimpressed that she barely acknowledges my existence.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 23/90
Last night after work I added lyrics and melodies to three songs. I think that means I have some singing in the car to do today.
After that I mixed two songs. Eight songs finished, 42 to go.
Both songs are meh, but what can you do. Quantity over quality and stuff.
Priorities are Jerks
Is doing the right thing overrated? Are priorities jerks?
Wednesday night I got a little less than six hours of sleep. I was really tired through most of the day on Thursday. I wanted to go to bed early last night but I ended up going to bed late. Fail. Then at about 3:30am I woke up with stomach pain. I have been doing a really shitty job over the last few days of eating three square meals. Three nights in a row I’ve had protein bars for dinner. It caught up to me. I was dealing with hunger pain a lot yesterday. I just couldn’t keep my stomach topped off for very long. I ate something before bed but it wasn’t enough and I was hurting when I woke up in the middle of the night. I had a little protein bar and felt better but I couldn’t fall back to sleep. It was annoying.
The end result? Less than five hours of sleep, and that includes over sleeping by about an hour. That lead to another question. Do I do my normal morning exercise and skip playing some guitar before work, or do I skip some or all of my exercise and play guitar. Ugh. I did the right thing. I did my exercise. I did not play guitar. I punched in to work at 8:50 with plenty of time to spare before the start of my shift, but I did not get any 50/90 challenge work done. No music for me.
Bummer. Maybe I’ll be able to sneak some work in tonight. Also, maybe I’ll have actual dinner tonight instead of just protein supplements. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I just don’t want to have hunger pains today. Let’s do the right thing, m’kay?
Inside the Red Head's Head 