Tag: Songwriting

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.

Four Down, 46 to Go

Not sure I like this one. At least I liked it more before I mixed it. I don’t know…

Three solos, the first is the Les Paul, the last is the Strat, the middle starts out on the Strat then switches to the Les Paul. Today was ES 335 day, but the Les Paul was there so I used it instead. So much for alternating days, eh?

I’d tell you what the lyrics were about if I knew, but I don’t so I won’t.

Three Down, 47 to Go

I didn’t write or record anything new, but I did sneak in a mix.

I don’t want to have everything sound like a power trio, even if I want everything to be arranged for a power trio. Does that make sense? Probably not.

All of the guitar parts here are the ES 335.

Two Down, 48 to Go

Has this been the most productive three day weekend of my musical life? It very well could be. Two songs finished. Two songs ready to mix. Five other songs in progress. Today’s songs are definitely weaker than yesterdays, but they don’t ask how good, they ask how many. Am I right?

It’s now 41/87.

One Down, Forty-Nine to Go

50/90 and FAWM are the same people. Why then can I host the songs I add to my FAWM account at alonetone, but I cannot for 50/90. I’m a little ticked off right now.

Anyway, the first songs I recorded using GarageBand were all about Hurricane Irene. Wouldn’t you just know that on the day a big writing project starts we get another hurricane? Arthur was just a rain storm by the time it reached us, but it’s still song worthy.

I’m planning on keeping better track of which guitar I use for which parts of which songs. Why? I don’t know, leave me alone. For this one, the rhythm guitar is the Strat and the leads are the Les Paul.

One song finished, forty-nine to go, and 87 days left.

50/90 is Underway

I have officially gotten further on 50/90 than in any years past.

In other words, I’ve done something. There are three things going, one of which is already fleshed out. I’ve even set up a soundcloud account to hold any works in progress.

So far so good, but there is so much further to go.

The Final Pre-50/90 Song

A little mini-suite. I had my 10 songs underway for my June album in a month project and like a doofus I threw together an extra song at the last minute, and made it three songs in one. (I then added two more, because I’m dumb).

Mostly this was an excuse to add an acoustic guitar (my Takamine 12-string) and a Gibson electric (ES 335 Pro) to a project that had been 100% Stratocaster to that point.

One night recently my two step kids and I all had a really difficult time falling asleep. That lead to some anxiety among the kids who thought that the inability to sleep was a sign that there was something wrong with them. I reassured them that it happens to all of us once in a while and that they should just relax, and then I wrote a song about not being able to sleep because of nightmares. I am a lyrical hypocrite. Accept it, I have.


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Here is the iOS mix.

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June Music is now as done as done can be. It’s 11:45pm on July 3rd. 50/90 officially starts in 15 minutes. I, however, will wait until morning because I am exhausted.

G’Night everyone!

The Second to Last Pre-50/90 Song

This is a June throw away. I wanted to put 8 bars of acoustic guitar on one of the June songs. When I finished I just opened a new project and threw down the first things that came to me. A vocal with some live and let live lyrics, a ton of reverb, and a ton of delay later…

we have a throw away.


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For completeness sake, here’s the iOS mix.

June Music Leftovers

I set out on June 1st to write and demo 10 songs. When June ended I had 10 complete songs and three more that were still incomplete. As of this moment, all three of the extras have been recorded. One has been mixed, I posted it the other night. The other two had vocals recorded yesterday and today. One of them is in three separate parts but will still probably be only five or six minutes long. No prog masterpieces here. The other one is just a little thing for 12-string and vocal. Nothing complicated. If I can mix them tonight, then I’ll have a clean slate for the start of 50/90 tomorrow.