Tag: Music

Three New Songs

I finished three songs tonight. None of them are particularly good, but what can you do?

This one was the first idea I came up with for 50/90. I literally woke up, grabbed my iPad, and jotted this down in GarageBand. Why then did it take nearly a month to finish? Well, maybe because I don’t particularly like it. Perhaps.

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The second song is only interesting in that it’s in 6/8 time. GarageBand for iOS is pretty limited in time signatures. I expect I’ll be using the Mac version to get myself some 7/8 and 5/4 before long. Prog babie. The lyrics are about a universal topic for those of us in Greater Boston… Traffic.

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The third song is kind of about Market Basket. Who would have thought that if you stand by your people, they will stand by you. It’s just amazing to even consider it.

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There you have it. 50/90 is now 36/62.

Pre-Work Music Update

Today is my telecommuting day, which means I had a nice chunk of time for music.

When we left for vacation I had 10 songs mixed, one ready to mix, and three ready for vocals. While we were away I finished the one that was ready to mix. This morning I finished the vocals on the other three. If I can mix them before I fall asleep tonight that will be fourteen songs from July. That’s three behind the pace for 50/90, but I also have eight additional things that were started after we left for vacation. So maybe I’m really ahead of the pace. I don’t know. It’s too early in the morning for this type of math.

Regardless, I will probably be posting some more bad music tonight. You’ve been warned.

11 Down, 39 to Go

We came back to the hotel a little early tonight. Both kids wanted to stay up late. I had all my pictures from the day sorted and uploaded. What to do? How about mix a song for 50/90?

The lyrics are about Patches the cat. Honestly.

Recorded in the USA, mixed in Canada. kewl

A Music Update to Bore You All

I know how popular these music project updates are, and I know you’re dying to know what I did yesterday. Here you go! A music project update!!

50/90, or fiftyninety as the twitter hash tags say, has seen 10 songs completely completed. There are six more on top of that. One is ready to mix. Three need vocals. Two need guitars and vocals. If you look at 50/90 in terms of monthly projects, you would need to have two months with 17 songs each, and one with 16. It’s only been two weeks and I’m already at the 16 mark.

Why did I push so hard out of the gate? Well, because it’s a whole ton of fun for musical nerds like me. Also, on top of that, is the little fact that there is going to be a week plus in July where I am going away. That starts as soon as I get off work tonight. I’ll have my iPad with me, so I can still make progress by creating bass riffs and drum grooves and what not, and I should probably have my old MacBook Pro too which means we might even see that one song that’s ready to mix get itself finished during the trip as well. Not likely though.

More likely is that I won’t do anything at all until we come home. Hopefully a little time off will recharge my creative batteries (hehe, as if I had creative batteries) and I’ll come home guns blazin’ and crank out ideas as fast as I did during the first weekend. Probably not, we’ll see. For all I know, I might lose interest entirely.

Like I said (like, two sentences ago), we’ll see.

Nine Down, 41 to Go

Tonight’s entry in the 50/90 post pile is a schmaltzy little sucker with lyrics inspired by the Red Sox cutting A.J. Pierzynsky.

Yup, I sure can come up with those groovy ideas, eh?

Eight Down, 42 to Go

The first idea I had for 50/90 turned out really heavy. So heavy that I haven’t really felt like coming up with a vocal and finishing it off. In reaction to Mr Heavy Song, the second idea I came up with was this goofy little funk fest.

Even a redhead like me wants to get funky now and then. All of the guitars here are the ES 335.

Seven Down, 43 to Go

I mixed two tonight. One was a mostly instrumental pile of dung that was meant to be Pink Floydish, but was instead down right utterly awful. The other is here for your listening pleasure (assuming having your ears tortured by bad music is pleasure).

The idea was to have one guitar riff for the whole song but use a combination of the melody and the dynamics to differentiate between the verse and the chorus. It sorta worked.

Lights Out

I’m tired, so tired. It’s bed time for ol’ Robbie and it ain’t ever 9:00 yet.

I wanted to get a ton of music done today. I got some, but not a ton. There’s another song ready to mix, and I added two more (bad) songs to the list. Forward progress, my friends.

Tomorrow should be music free. We get to drive through the wilderness to get the kids at camp. The last two nights have sucked without having them here. We will make up for it tomorrow night at the camp fire. I must check my camera’s battery!

Five Down, 45 to Go

Five songs… that’s 10%! I’m 1/10th of the way though 50/90!

This was a last minute kind of thing on Sunday. I had to go out and run an errand, and I had spent quite a bit of time on two ideas that weren’t really doing much for me (but after listening to one of them today it’s better than I thought at the time). I tried to sneak in one more idea before I went out. That idea became this song.

I tagged this on the fiftyninety page as hyperactive. I think this is as close as I will ever come to sounding like The Police. I know the three members of The Police were just insulted mightily, but I mean no offense to them.

I actually kinda like this one.