Okay, figuring out what I did yesterday might take a second. I did a lot and I didn’t keep the best notes. Let’s see….

I put rhythm guitars onto five songs. That’s the big deal of the day. Lots of guitar playing after a long time with almost no playing means my finger tips hurt like hell, but it’s okay because progress is good. I also added song number nine complete with MIDI bass and drums. I redid a MIDI drum part on one of the songs that got guitars but I don’t remember which one. I also just realized I have another song that needs the drums redone but I haven’t gotten to it yet. I also worked out the song form, and the bass and drums for two additional songs. Those were numbers seven and eight, I think.

I’ve already recorded some more guitar tracks this morning, but you’ll have to wait until the day nine recap to hear about all of that ultra fascinating shit. My finger tips need a break though, so it’s time to go shovel. Wish me luck.

I made a little bit of progress on day seven. I added two songs ideas. I don’t have the form set yet, just a few pieces. The good news is it puts me back over the one-idea-per-day pace as I am now up to eight songs in the pipeline.

More interesting news will come on day eight. It’s already started.

Day six was better than the previous two days, but still not good enough. I feel like I am light years behind schedule at this point. I am going to need a super productive weekend to fix the current situation.

Yesterday I took the song that I started overnight the night before (see my stupid little recap of day five) and added to it and fleshed out the song form and finished the MIDI bass and MIDI drums. I also added two more songs and got through the bass and drums on those as well.

So at the close of business on day six I have six songs with bass and drums tracked that are ready for rhythm guitars. On average, one new song per day. That’s not bad. It could be a whole ton of tons better, but it’s not bad. I expect there won’t be a whole lot of progress tonight, but tomorrow is Saturday and hopefully the weekend will see the pace pick up quite a bit.

The honest answer is nothing. Again. The second day in a row.

The squint a little answer is one new song idea. Or at least most of one new song. I woke up at 2:00am with stomach issues and needed to sit up for a little while. While I was riding things out I noodled out a couple of bass lines on my iPhone. Now at that particular moment the calendar date said it was day six. However, it was the middle of the night and I guess you can make an argument that day six actually starts when I get up for the day and that most definitely did not happen for a few more hours.

So is that bad little bass line technically from day six or subjectively from day five? I don’t know. Am I just making shit up to make me feel better about skipping two days in a row? Yeah, probably. Let’s just say that it’s been a tough couple of days for me and move on with our lives.

Here’s hoping for better news in tomorrow’s RPM Challenge recap post. Fingers crossed.

Day two was mostly spent recovering from travel on day one (day three will be similar, I fear). I did add a second song idea and I worked out a full song form for both day 2’s song and day 1’s. So I now have two songs with full form done, including bass and drums. One of them may have a sax part already too, but it’s just a keyboard as a place holder for now.

It is February again so it is time for daily RPM Challenge updates.

Not much yesterday (Day one, Sunday), just one song idea noodled out in GarageBand for iPhone while sitting in a hotel room near Orlando, Florida waiting to check out and fly home. Hopefully I’ll get to a little more than that today.