Tag: Guitar

10 Songs

I mentioned earlier that I put guitars onto six songs this morning. I’ve spent the afternoon mixing and have finished three songs. That brings the total up to 10. That means 50/90 is 20% complete. It also means I have an RPM Challenge rules (10 songs or 35 minutes) album in a month for July. Nice

I wanted to share one of the songs, just because that’s how I usually do this… but all three songs are pretty shitty over all and none of them are worth posting at all. They are just bad.

I’ll share this one though because it’s in 15/8 time so it at least has that going for it, I guess.

Hey Look, More Guitars!

More guitar pictures? Hey, that must mean I worked on the music project today! Yeah, I did!

I put rhythm guitars on the only two song ideas that still needed rhythm guitars, and I put lead guitars on the only four songs that were ready for lead guitars that didn’t already have them. Nice! I have once again run out of guitar parts to record.

Next up for music today is mixing songs that are finished tracking, and writing lyrics for songs that don’t have them yet. On we go!

I played my SG today, and up until the point when I was recording leads on the fourth and final song of the morning it felt really good. That last song wasn’t the guitars fault, I am just way out of practice and I ran out of gas.

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I also played through my Deluxe Reverb. No direct signals today, for me or for Baby Yoda.

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2023 50/90 Challenge Days 25 & 26/90

Migraines suck.

Did I miss a day here? I don’t know. Maybe I’ll count calendar dates another time, but not today. I think today is day 26.

I didn’t do anything on day 25, yesterday. Nothing at all. A totally wasted day. Today was better. I put vocals on four songs, worked out the song form and the MIDI bass and drums for two songs, and wrote lyrics and melody for two other songs.

There are two more days left in July. At the bare minimum I want to mix three more songs before the month ends. That will give me 10 songs complete, which will give me an album in a month under RPM Challenge rules. After that, we’ll start August and see what happens. As of this moment, nearing the end of day 26, I have 22 songs in progress, seven of which are mixed and finished.

Huzzah, babie.

2023 50/90 Challenge Days 23 & 24/90

Not much to report on the song writing challenge front over the last two days. Day 23 was Wednesday and I didn’t do anything. Day 24 was yesterday, Thursday, and I didn’t get shut out but I also didn’t do much. I wanted to do a car music and track some vocals and maybe get a mix or two in and maybe write some lyrics but instead all I did was add two new song ideas. Just a couple of bass lines and a drum groove. All midi. I’m a little disappointed in myself for two days with very little progress, but the weekend is almost here and I am hoping to get a ton of music in (as well as more photography goofiness). Jen has plans to work on a project this weekend, so I will dedicate myself to a project or two as well. Harry will be paying a visit too so I will dedicate however much time he is here to him. I also want to visit my father on Saturday. It’s his anniversary, and the first since my mother passed. It’s going to be very sad and I don’t know if I am up for it. Mother’s day was rough but I fear this is going to be rougher.

So now we’re up to date on (more than) the current music project.

2023 50/90 Challenge Day 22/90

I owe a recap post from last night. My lunch break at the office seems like as good a time as any to play catch up.

Small progress yesterday. After my fun photography morning I was able to add lyrics and melody to two songs and then mix two additional songs. Neither of the finished songs are very good. That’s sort of a theme this year, I think. I might post them later, but not now.

No clue what, if anything, I will be able to get to tonight when I get home from work, but I have four songs ready to add vocals to so there might be a car music in the morning. I’m sure I’ll let you know.

2023 50/90 Challenge Days 20 and 21/90

I’m a day late for the day 20 post, and probably a few hours early for the day 21 post. Not that any of this crap matters though, right?

Yesterday I put rhythm guitars onto two songs and lead guitars onto two other songs. I also mixed two songs, bringing the total number of complete songs up to five.

Today I put rhythm guitars onto two songs and lead guitars onto two other songs. I still might try to mix a song or two tonight but I think I will probably spend the rest of the evening on season two of the original Doctor Who. I just started the serial The Romans, which is episodes 12-15.

As it stands right now, I am still holding on 20 songs in progress. I have five songs done, six songs ready to mix, two songs ready for vocals, and seven songs ready for lyrics and melodies. I currently have zero songs needing guitar tracks, which means my goal for tomorrow is to pick off a couple of vocals and maybe start a new song idea or two. Or three. I have seven days left in July. It would really be something to have half of the songs underway in the first month.

21 days down. 69 days to go.

Four and Five of 50

I have mixed two songs this afternoon. They are the fourth and fifth songs completed for this year’s 50 songs in 90 days challenge and you know what that means, right? It means I am 10% finished! Math, babie! That’s how you do it!

Neither of these songs are terribly good, in terms of writing and recording and performance. This first one is probably the better of the two. I had some fun putting lead guitars on this, even if what I ended up with is brutally sloppy.

This second song is just a great big pile of meh.

Five songs down, 45 to go. No one said they had to be good, they just have to exist.

Good Progress

I feel like I have made good progress on a couple of fronts today. First, my stomach is still okay. I had a protein bar for lunch and I have some french fries in the air fryer right now. Not the Golden Crispers from the comfort food post from earlier this morning, but a different type of Ore-Ida frozen french fries. Not as good, but close. We’ll see how we feel after eating a little bit of actual food.

The second progress front is guitar! The 50/90 Challenge and all that stuff. I put rhythm guitars onto two songs, and lead guitars onto two different songs. I played my Les Paul. If I get a chance later I will do some more and play my SG. Variety is the spice of life, after all. I’m also hoping to mix a tune or two before the day comes to an end. We’ll see about that. For now, season five episode two of the new Doctor Who series. Hey, check it out! Prince Daemon Targaryen from House of the Dragon is The Doctor and Nebula from Guardians of the Galaxy is the companion. This might end up being my favorite cast.

Guitar pictures!

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2023 50/90 Challenge Day 19/90

I didn’t record any guitar tracks today, but I did get a nice chunk of work done, which sets me up to record guitars tomorrow.

I had four songs that were just a couple of eight bar phrases done with MIDI instruments. I worked all four of them into full song forms. Now I have something to play guitar on tomorrow. Nice, eh?

I also mixed two songs. I posted one earlier. Here’s the other. This is in the running for my Record Every Month submission for July. I kinda like this one, even though there are slight timing issues literally everywhere. It’s short and sweet and the chorus isn’t bad, even if the guitar leads are.

That’s three songs mixed. Only 47 more to go. I am 6% of the way finished!