Only six more songs to go, and I have six songs in progress. There are still 17 days to go. I’m not feeling confident yet, but I will say I’m thinking about trying to get to 51 songs. We’ll see.
Tag: Guitar
Fifty
5090: 43 Down, Seven to Go
The idea was to have a hectic verse and a simpler chorus. It sort of worked at first, until I swapped out my simple iPad drums for the GarageBand Drummer function. Now the chorus feels pretty hectic too. Somehow that’s all right with me.
5090: 42 Down, Eight to Go
Is this one too long?
The verse is a 12-bar blues phrase, but the rest of the song isn’t. Clever? Probably not.
50/90: 41 Down, Nine to Go
I went into 50/90 thinking I’d do some simple guitar/voice things just to pad my numbers. I haven’t done that at all, although this one might sound that way. It’s just two guitars, a bass, and one vocal. I wanted it that way though. The verse part is something I noodle on all the time, and have been doing it for decades. Emin7 – Dmaj7. Real simple. I just thought I’d use it in a song. I’ve probably already used it in a song somewhere, but I just can’t think of one off the top of my head. That’s what happens when you write song after song after song without ever having to rehearse them again… you end up repeating yourself when you are sure you’re not repeating yourself.
40 Down, 10 to Go
I was supposed to post this last night but I fell asleep. I mixed two songs. The first is a big dumb slow rocker with lyrics that even I can’t figure out what they’re about.
The second is a quiet little strummy guy with lyrics about how pointless these stupid music challenges are.
38 Down, 12 to Go
It was bound to happen. It was just a matter of time before I took a song in 7/8 time and drenched it with wah-wah. Dig it.
Song #36 of 50
I mixed this last night. I was mostly asleep. The riffs are cheese and the lyrics are dumb. Not very proud of this one.





