Tag: Garageband

10 Down, 40 to Go

There was a post on the 50/90 forum where one user questioned the artistic integrity of everyone else, saying that none of the songs he heard were pushing any artistic boundaries.

My response was, how do you know? Why do you think the pushing of boundaries is going to be audible for anyone? Take me for example. I’m actually letting people listen to my god awful singing voice. I’m writing lyrics! Every once in a while I actually try to express an opinion or, even worse, a feeling! Hell, I am a Gibson guy playing a Strat! Is there any bigger artistic wall to climb than that?

Not that I consider the garbage I write and record to be anything even resembling art. I’m not that self deluded. You get the idea though. I record all of this crap because it’s fun, but that doesn’t mean sharing it is easy. I mean, there is a reason I wait for the house to be empty before I record myself singing, you know?

Nine Down, 41 to Go

Tonight’s entry in the 50/90 post pile is a schmaltzy little sucker with lyrics inspired by the Red Sox cutting A.J. Pierzynsky.

Yup, I sure can come up with those groovy ideas, eh?

Eight Down, 42 to Go

The first idea I had for 50/90 turned out really heavy. So heavy that I haven’t really felt like coming up with a vocal and finishing it off. In reaction to Mr Heavy Song, the second idea I came up with was this goofy little funk fest.

Even a redhead like me wants to get funky now and then. All of the guitars here are the ES 335.

Seven Down, 43 to Go

I mixed two tonight. One was a mostly instrumental pile of dung that was meant to be Pink Floydish, but was instead down right utterly awful. The other is here for your listening pleasure (assuming having your ears tortured by bad music is pleasure).

The idea was to have one guitar riff for the whole song but use a combination of the melody and the dynamics to differentiate between the verse and the chorus. It sorta worked.

Five Down, 45 to Go

Five songs… that’s 10%! I’m 1/10th of the way though 50/90!

This was a last minute kind of thing on Sunday. I had to go out and run an errand, and I had spent quite a bit of time on two ideas that weren’t really doing much for me (but after listening to one of them today it’s better than I thought at the time). I tried to sneak in one more idea before I went out. That idea became this song.

I tagged this on the fiftyninety page as hyperactive. I think this is as close as I will ever come to sounding like The Police. I know the three members of The Police were just insulted mightily, but I mean no offense to them.

I actually kinda like this one.

Four Down, 46 to Go

Not sure I like this one. At least I liked it more before I mixed it. I don’t know…

Three solos, the first is the Les Paul, the last is the Strat, the middle starts out on the Strat then switches to the Les Paul. Today was ES 335 day, but the Les Paul was there so I used it instead. So much for alternating days, eh?

I’d tell you what the lyrics were about if I knew, but I don’t so I won’t.

Three Down, 47 to Go

I didn’t write or record anything new, but I did sneak in a mix.

I don’t want to have everything sound like a power trio, even if I want everything to be arranged for a power trio. Does that make sense? Probably not.

All of the guitar parts here are the ES 335.

Two Down, 48 to Go

Has this been the most productive three day weekend of my musical life? It very well could be. Two songs finished. Two songs ready to mix. Five other songs in progress. Today’s songs are definitely weaker than yesterdays, but they don’t ask how good, they ask how many. Am I right?

It’s now 41/87.

One Down, Forty-Nine to Go

50/90 and FAWM are the same people. Why then can I host the songs I add to my FAWM account at alonetone, but I cannot for 50/90. I’m a little ticked off right now.

Anyway, the first songs I recorded using GarageBand were all about Hurricane Irene. Wouldn’t you just know that on the day a big writing project starts we get another hurricane? Arthur was just a rain storm by the time it reached us, but it’s still song worthy.

I’m planning on keeping better track of which guitar I use for which parts of which songs. Why? I don’t know, leave me alone. For this one, the rhythm guitar is the Strat and the leads are the Les Paul.

One song finished, forty-nine to go, and 87 days left.