Tag: Music

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.

hearthis.at

The search for a Soundcloud alternative has lead me to another European site, This time it’s hearthis.at. I’ve uploaded the 37 finished songs from 50/90 so that I had a lot of stuff to play with. So far the interface is wicked clunky. Not very pleased. I created a set and added all of the songs (which was a bear to do) and when go to the set’s page it doesn’t play them in the order I added them. It’s mostly reverse order, but not quite.

Just wondering if I can use the site to post here.

Testing:

I think we can consider that a solid no.

But wait! There is a mention of a shortcode plug in. Does that work?

[hearthis]https://hearthis.at/roberjames1971/30-killer/[/hearthis]

Doesn’t look good, does it. Oh well.

37 Down, 13 to Go

The lyrics are about a ghost story I found here. The whole song was written, recorded, and mixed today. Every last bit of it, all done today. I think the last time I did that might have been 2001 when I was in college.

35 Songs Down, 15 More to Go

I mixed two songs tonight. I wanted to get some guitar playing in, but we’ll just have to settle for the mixes.


This one is sort of about how much money Market Basket lost during the whole CEO fiasco. Now that it’s over I haven’t been into a store yet, but I will at some point this weekend.


Tonight’s second song is about being a teenager who knows everything. I guess. Sort of. Something like that. Originally it was going to be about how the music sounds like Journey and how much that pissed me off. But somehow it turned into a high school kinda thing. I guess. Sort of.

33 Songs Down, 17 to Go

Lyrics inspired by a Facebook conversation about my niece’s first two days of kindergarten. Sort of. I guess.

Musically, this one may have been written in the Trapp Family Lodge*. The Hills are Alive with the Sound of GarageBand for iPad.

*It may have been written the night after we stayed at the Trapp Family Lodge. I can’t remember. It was the first song idea I messed with during our Canadian vacation in July, I know that for sure.