Song #11. I started this one last night, after I had already sketched out song #14, with 14 songs being the goal. So this is sort of overkill, but I like it more than most of the other songs so it’s a keeper.
Tag: Garageband
RPM Song #9
Let’s take stock of the ol’ RPM Challenge, shall we?
The goal is 10 songs or 35 minutes of music. Right.
I currently stand at 9 songs and 34:41.
SONOFA!! 19 seconds short!
I have four more songs in progress. None of which have lyrics yet. That’s the sticking point right there now isn’t it.
I’ll have before work time on Tuesday. On Wednesday I took a vacation day, but the kids are on school vacation so I will only have a couple of hours in the morning before I go get them at their dads. Thursday is telecommute day, but the kids will be home. If I can’t get the rest of the songs tracked (including one more that hasn’t even been started yet) by the early afternoon on Wednesday then FAWM is a bust. I need 14 songs to finish that one. RPM looks good. One more lyric/vocal and it’s done, and I can do that Tuesday morning. After getting the kids on Wednesday the plan will be to mix whatever is left. I suppose if I’m close to 14 I could always sit in the car and sing. Maybe drive to some empty parking lot somewhere.
Song Number Eight
Eight down, six to go. One of those six is ready to mix (I think) and two don’t exist at all yet. Things ain’t looking good for FAWM, but the RPM Challenge is looking nice and rosy.
Song Number Seven
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.
New Song, Barely
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.
RPM Song #5
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.
Song #4
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.
Two Songs Down
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.
One Song Down
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.
Another Song
Here is the Prime Meridian Mega Closer. We called it that because it used to have a great big noisy rock out ending that was just a blast. I always liked this one a lot even though there wasn’t much too it. I had to dumb a lot of it down in order to pull it off in GarageBand, but it’s still fun to play even after all these years.
Inside the Red Head's Head 