Day 50. Today is the first day that it starts to feel like I’m running out of time… even though that’s absurd because there’s more than a month left.

Two songs got rhythm guitar tracks yesterday. One got leads. 40 songs total are in progress. 29 are finished. Four are finished tracking and are ready to mix. Two have vocals finished and are ready for lead guitars (and will hopefully get them very soon). Five have rhythm guitars and are ready for lyrics.

And that is the state of the union after 50 days.

One song got rhythm guitars, lead guitars, and a mix. 29 songs down, 21 to go. Two other songs got lead guitars.

Part of me feels like I am miles ahead of the minimum pace. Another part of me feels like I am way behind. I don’t get it.

The vocals on this one are really out of tune. I will likely either re-record them or completely rewrite them. Later. Not today.

ADDENDUM: I forgot, I worked out one song form too. MIDI bass and MIDI drums are done for that one.

Another day when I was sure I was going to get shut out with no progress but managed to sneak something in at the last minute.

I mixed one song.

That’s all.

I mixed one song tonight. I started mixing a second but I am too tired to concentrate on it. I’ll finish it another time.

For now, enjoy this piece of mediocre crap. 28 songs down, 22 to go. Onward toward 50 songs in 90 days.

Not a lot but better than nothing.

Just before bed last night I worked out a song form for song number 39 and then started song number 40. I now have two songs ready for rhythm guitars.

Like I said, not much but I thought I was going to get shut out again and I didn’t so that’s a win.

A good day. I put vocals on four songs. Then I wrote lyrics and melodies and added vocals to two more songs. Then I mixed three songs. No guitar playing, but a good day indeed.

I have mixed three songs today. That means the total number of completed demoes of new songs for the 50 songs in 90 days challenge is up to 27. 54% complete.

I’ll share the least awful of them all. This is yet another attempt to make 3/4 time rock. I guess it’s almost successful, but I am pretty sure I’ve written exactly this song multiple times in the past.

I might share the other two songs later, but probably not.

Halfway Done. 45 days down, 45 days to go.

I wrote the lyrics and the melodies for four songs. Not nearly as much as I wanted to get done, but not bad.

Here at the halfway point I have 24 song demoes finished. Five songs are ready to mix. Four songs are ready for vocals. Four songs are ready for lyrics. Two songs are just a handful of little riffs that need to be worked into a song form. That’s a total of 39 songs in the pipeline.

I’m still confident that I’ll get to 50 songs, but life is getting in the way quite a bit right now. I’ll remain cautiously optimistic.