Tag: Rpm Challenge

Rock Star

I just received an email from hearthis.at basically telling me that I am a freakin’ Rock Star:

Critical Mass
in Rock

Congratulations Robert,

Critical Mass is of the weekly Rock ranking:

Mouse and the Traps – Maid Of Sugar, Maid Of Spice by On The Flip-Side
#2 The Wig – Crackin’ Up by On The Flip-Side
#3 Mouse and the Traps – I Am The One by On The Flip-Side
Critical Mass by Robert
#5 The Esquires – These Are The Tender Years by On The Flip-Side
#6 The Outcasts – 1523 Blair by On The Flip-Side
#7 The Outcasts – Smokestack Lightning by On The Flip-Side
#8 Dj MasterBeat VS The Mastermixers -the AC/DC megamix by DeeJay MasterBeat
#9 wreally wrongkey queen by Des Harmonic
#10 The Esquires – Judgement Day by On The Flip-Side

Listen online: https://hearthis.at/?type=trending&category=rock

Wishing you a nice weekend!

Benedikt Groß
hearthis.at

So how about that, huh? You didn’t realize you were dealing with a giant of the German Rock World, did you!  Me and the Hoff, just owning all of Germany!

Granted, seeing as seven of the top 10 spots are from the same band, that might tell you more about rock music on hearthis.at than seeing a doofus like me on their weekly chart.  Maybe I should check out On The Flip-Side.

Do you think this is just a way for the site to sucker people into using up my 5000 plays so that I will have to either pay up or stop uploading files?  Could be.

Liar

Earlier today I put a post on the RPM Challenge website saying that I’d given up on trying to use a real amplifier when recording guitar parts. As is often the case, as soon as I told myself I wasn’t going to do it anymore, I went and did it. I just recorded guitars using my old amp. Granted, it’s a terrible song… but still.

Untitled

One Song Down

The RPM Challenge has kicked into gear and I have one song complete. Not sure how I feel about this one as the guitar sounds fishy in the chorus and I’m frankly too tired to know if the mix is any good or not. This might get some additional work.

The RPM Challenge Begins!

It’s February 1st and The RPM Challenge is officially underway! Good luck to all participants.

I am ready to start as soon as I run a couple of errands. First, we are meeting a friend for breakfast. Second I need to drive home from New York. Nothing major.

I hope to watch the Super Bowl tonight with my guitar in hand and a copy of GarageBand open and running in front of me.

I also wanted to focus on a single guitar this time. If it’s going to be my Les Paul, then I need to get some strings.

…and they’re off!

March Music… In May

When I did RPM this year there were two songs that just came out ridiculously bad. I couldn’t stand them. Neither was that bad, but the recordings were pretty crummy. One of the songs was okay as it was, so I decided to just re-record it for March. It’s better than it was… I guess. I changed the key from E to D, swapped the acoustic guitars for heavier electric guitars, and just sort of rocked it up a bit.

Here is the February version:
http://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/jen-and-me.mp3%20

Here is the March/May version that I just finished mixing:
http://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/jen-me-version-2.mp3%20

The Final RPM Challenge Post of 2014

Here it is kids, the (now) annual last official RPM Challenge post of the year.  I have uploaded this year’s stuff to my official RPM jukebox page.

Robert Parker’s RPM Challenge Music.

So there it is folks.  That page has three little flash playlists that contain my three officially submitted RPM Challenge projects.  This closes the book on February 2014.  I had a good time, despite being less than pleased with the end results.  There are a couple of decent moments.  One of the songs that I was really disappointed with is actually getting some love on alonetone.  I find that very weird.  Oh well.

I will keep plugging on more album-in-a-month zaniness, but RPM itself is over until next year.

RPMarch

So Robbie, what’s the deal? When you finished off your February recording project you said you were just going to keep going and do another one in March. You even came up with a clever stupid name for it, RPMarch.

So where are the constant updates that make us, your loyal readers want to claw our own eyes out?

Well here’s one.

I have bass and drum tracks set for five songs. There are a total of nine songs in the plans at this point. I need to come up with at least one more. I have four songs left over from the kids’ Christmas vacation, when I tried to write a few songs for a goofy EP idea. I have one idea that I had during February that I never got around to. I also have two outtakes from Things and Stuff that I want to see if I can salvage. Then there is one song that I came up with a couple of nights ago, and the one Tempest Fero song I want to add to the TF Redux collection. That’s nine. My goal is 10. So far so good.

There you have it. The RPMarch Day Six update. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you are pleased that I haven’t quit on this idea yet.

Yet.