I started noodling out this little rocker this morning after going grocery shopping. The lyrics were recorded while sitting in the car outside of my step son’s guitar lesson. Later, after going to my nephew’s 4th birthday party, I recorded the guitars. Then after a break for some TV time I mixed it.
Not that good, but it’s there.
Yesterday was a bad day. A very bad day. Water leaking through the picture window, a carbon monoxide detector went off (the device was malfunctioning, but I didn’t know that when the beeping first started), I also had a brief period of feeling really sick just as a little cherry on top.
Somehow in between all of that crap and the related heart attack stress level I managed to have a very productive RPM Challenge day. It was probably that or just go raving mad, screaming at the walls. I recorded three vocals, used a trick to finish the one drum part I had to program, and mixed one song. I lost my ability to make up lyrics about nothing on the spot so for this one I had to find a topic. I found a blog about New England Folklore, and one of the posts was about the ghost that haunts the Mt Washington Hotel. Turns out she was married to the guy who built the building, so she’s not a scary ghost. She knows that would be bad for business.
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.
The RPM Challenge has kicked into gear and I have one song complete. Not sure how I feel about this one as the guitar sounds fishy in the chorus and I’m frankly too tired to know if the mix is any good or not. This might get some additional work.
This song is from my days at Northeast Broadcasting School (as an employee, not a student) and it wasn’t until the other day that I came to the conclusion that it would be physically impossible to play this song live.
I finished up another late 90’s song. This was our creepy, spooky, Halloweenish song.
Say hello to the first demo of 2015! RPM starts in just under 13 days so it’s time to start blitzing you all with new demos of old songs. This is a Prime Meridian song. One of the last we wrote. It comes from 1999 (or so) and was more or less forgotten about.
It’s kinda groovy, isn’t it?
Here is the second of 10 (probably) songs written and recorded for NaSoAlMo. As has often been the case lately I am 90% asleep right now, so I have no idea if the mix I just finished is listenable or not. I’d consider it a big bonus if it sounds okay.
Inside the Red Head's Head 