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Tracking is Done – #RPM2022

Tracking is done, tracking is done, thank the flying spaghetti monster, tracking is done.

I put leads onto 10 songs today. I did the first three this morning and I was feeling pretty good. Then I came back to it after dinner and my finger tips were killing me. I couldn’t play to save my life. It was terrible. I was actually starting to panic a little for the first time all month. It was bad.

It’s RPM though so I had to push through. Fortunately after a couple of bad songs I started warming up a little and things got better. My finger tips even stopped hurting, though I wonder if that’s a sign of permanent nerve damage or something (no I don’t, just being #sarcastic).

I mixed a couple of songs today too and I was thinking to myself that there only maybe two songs that were better than mediocre, and those two weren’t better by much. Then I was plowing through leads tonight and I came to the realization that the last three songs I started off this month are the best three. I sort of expect them to be the first three songs on the final album. That made me feel a smidge better.

Okay, vote time. Which of these three pictures should I use as the album cover?

#1:

#2:

Or #3:

Also, if you’re keeping track, two of those pictures are very similar to an RPM Challenge album cover from the past (2013, to be exact). I don’t care.

Almost Out of Time

This weekend is going to be an RPM Challenge weekend for the ages. Or something like that.

At the start of business today I had five songs finished and 15 songs unfinished. There were five songs ready to mix, the last step in the process, and 10 songs that needed some form of lead guitar before they would be ready to mix.

I had a bunch of things to do around the house this morning too. I did all but two of those, then I took a break and picked up the guitar. I put leads onto three songs and then had to get back to the errands. Once the last errands are done I am going to play until my fingers bleed and then mix until my ears fall off.

I’m getting to 20 songs this year even if it kills me.

There are two wah-wah pedals in the second photo. The gold one is a Dunlop Gary Clark, Jr signature Crybaby. It’s pretty good. I like it a lot. It’s not my favorite Crybaby model, but it’s definitely up there. The black one, the one that’s actually plugged in, is a Real McCoy Custom RMC10. I bought it based on YouTube reviews, like ya do, and my first impression was that I wasn’t sure if I was going to love it as much as the high price tag requires. I just wasn’t bonding with it, you know?

That was then, this is now. I don’t know what I’m doing different, but I am loving this little sucker right now. The quack is just killer.

Okay. There’s a floor to mop and it’s calling me. There will be more musical goofiness later, I promise.

Is Santa Close By?

It’s snow and we have a ton of deer in the yard. Santa must be around here somewhere.

Our deer friends look cold and snowy and I’m guessing they are feeling pretty miserable right now.

Also, we haven’t gotten much more since my last snow pic post. Hopefully it’s as deep as it is going to get now. Fingers crossed.