Tag: fiftyninety

Missed Opportunity

My work schedule is screwy this week. Telecommuting was today instead of tomorrow. I missed my chance to get some serious music done. I haven’t been able to get more then four hours of sleep a night this week and this morning after my wife went to work I just went back to bed. Then during lunch I did laundry.

No musical progress was made tonight. Missed opportunity indeed.

50/90 is Now 34/57

I finished two songs tonight. This one comes from a floridaman story. Read it here.

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The second song… I have no idea what it is about. Maybe sort of about not wanting to go to work or something like that.

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The music for both of these turd burgers was written while on vacation. I was just out of control crazy like that. Must have been the proximity to the birth places of all three members of Rush.

7/8 and 5/4

The only negative to my 50/90 workflow of starting new ideas using GarageBand foe iPad is the lack of flexibility with time signatures and tempos. You can’t change them mid-song, and there are only three time signatures built in. I could easily work around that, but then I’d lose the cool segment functionality. Fortunately GarageBand for Mac has more flexibility and options.

Hence the two things I pieced together on the Mac tonight that are both in odd times. Ah, a Prog Rock wannabe.

Three New Songs

I finished three songs tonight. None of them are particularly good, but what can you do?

This one was the first idea I came up with for 50/90. I literally woke up, grabbed my iPad, and jotted this down in GarageBand. Why then did it take nearly a month to finish? Well, maybe because I don’t particularly like it. Perhaps.

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The second song is only interesting in that it’s in 6/8 time. GarageBand for iOS is pretty limited in time signatures. I expect I’ll be using the Mac version to get myself some 7/8 and 5/4 before long. Prog babie. The lyrics are about a universal topic for those of us in Greater Boston… Traffic.

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The third song is kind of about Market Basket. Who would have thought that if you stand by your people, they will stand by you. It’s just amazing to even consider it.

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There you have it. 50/90 is now 36/62.

Pre-Work Music Update

Today is my telecommuting day, which means I had a nice chunk of time for music.

When we left for vacation I had 10 songs mixed, one ready to mix, and three ready for vocals. While we were away I finished the one that was ready to mix. This morning I finished the vocals on the other three. If I can mix them before I fall asleep tonight that will be fourteen songs from July. That’s three behind the pace for 50/90, but I also have eight additional things that were started after we left for vacation. So maybe I’m really ahead of the pace. I don’t know. It’s too early in the morning for this type of math.

Regardless, I will probably be posting some more bad music tonight. You’ve been warned.

50/90 Needs to Get Rolling Again

My guitar is sitting next to the fireplace, begging for me to start working on 50/90 again. I want to get back to work. I have a whole bunch of stuff on my iPad that I came up with while vacationing. There’s lots to do.

Still…

I cut the grass today. There ain’t much get up and go left in me.

Maybe a nap first. Maybe 48 hours or so.