I mixed one song last night, just before bed. That’s all I had time for. 47 songs complete. Three more to finish the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. Three more on top of that to empty my in-progress pipeline.
I have 11 songs that were started in September. It would be more fun if there were 15, don’t you think? I have this weird compulsion to add four more songs. I think this whole project might be getting to me. We’ll see.
47 songs down and three to go in order to complete the 50 songs in 90 days challenge for 2024.
If I pick out 5-10 songs from this year’s batch to make an “album”, it’s safe to say that this one won’t be included. It’s not the worst song, but it’s not terribly good either. Can 7/8 time swing? I guess not.
I wasn’t going to do this… and then I was. I am going to have over 50 news songs thanks to this year’s 50 songs in 90 days challenge. In the past I’ve picked out about 10 songs from a successful 50/90 and made them into an “album”.
I wasn’t going to do that this year. Then about a month ago I thought maybe I’d do something. Maybe instead of picking 10 out of the 50+ songs I would pick five and do half of an album.
Today I started listening to some of the recordings from July. The first three songs I listened to went onto the list of songs to redo. Then the list grew to four of the first five songs. I stopped listening at that point. I think I need to be way more critical of myself. I’m usually ridiculously over critical, but for some reason today I was thinking this batch of songs might not be that bad. We’ll see if I change my mind over the next few days.
Yeah, we’ll see.
A good day. I put vocals and lead guitars on the last three songs. I also mixed the last song that was started before September 1st.
There are 46 songs mixed and complete. There are seven more ready to mix. 53 in total. There are eight days left. I have more days than songs left to mix. I think I am in good shape.
A slight musical correction to a post from earlier today. I said that I wasn’t going to have a chance to play guitar again until Thursday morning. Well, I was wrong. I played guitar tonight. I put lead guitars onto three songs… the last three songs. All of the tracking for the 50 songs in 90 days challenge is complete. Unless I decide to add another song or something silly like that.
How about a little ambiance?
I had a vision in my head of finishing the tracking for the 50/90 challenge yesterday by adding vocals and lead guitars to the final three songs. Instead, I didn’t do any of that which lead to me sneaking out and putting vocals on those final three songs this morning. I won’t have time for the last few guitar tracks until… Thursday? I have a bunch of songs still to mix so there’s plenty of work to do between now and then. I mixed one song last night and started mixing another. Hopefully I’ll finish that tonight, but I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night at all and I expect to crash hard tonight. We’ll see.
Pictures. One guitar picture as a reminder to myself that I didn’t play yesterday (or today) even though I wanted to.
Next, a view from my “recording studio” this morning.
Finally, yet another picture of the downtown clock from the drive home. Fascinating.
I have eight days left to finish the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. I am feeling some pressure, but I am also optimistic.
Okay, let’s get nervous now. Less than 10 days left. Just over a week.
I mixed one song. That’s it. I had SO much more planned. I thought I was going to be able to finish all of the remaining tracking but I didn’t get to any of it.
The nerves are irrational, I know. It doesn’t matter though.
45 songs complete. The challenge is 90% finished.
The arrival of day 80 (yesterday) brings on the start of crunch time. I am light years ahead of the pace still, but seeing day 80 still brings on a crashing irrational panic. You know how it is.
I put rhythm guitars onto one song yesterday and lead guitars onto four. I’m hoping day 81 (today) will include some vocal tracking and maybe some more lead guitar. There is a very slim chance that I could wrap up tracking entirely by the end of the day. We’ll see.
Hey there, everyone out there in internets land. How’s your morning going?
Are you having a good morning the way I am? Are both of your kids home for a visit? Did you play a ton of guitar before breakfast?
That’s my morning in a nutshell. Both kids are here, but only for the morning. I also put rhythm guitar tracks onto one song and lead tracks onto four.
It’s a good morning ’round here.
I wrote lyrics and a melody for two songs. Likely they will be the last two songs. I started putting vocals on one of them but I had to stop in the middle. I doubt I’ll be able so salvage any of it.
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