Today’s photo a day pic:
She looks pissed off because I keep stopping her when she tries to eat one of the plants. I’m a jerk like that.
In other news, I put vocals on four songs for the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. I now have 50 songs with vocals… which implies that I will be successful this year. Huzzah, babie.
Here a picture of the clock downtown from my drive home… because.
Right then, back on schedule with the previous day’s update happening first thing in the morning.
Yesterday, on day 76. I added lyrics and melodies to one song. Time to get cracking, red head!
This post is supposed to happen first thing in the morning but I didn’t get to it until dinner time. Sorry.
Yesterday, day 75, I added lyrics and melody to one song.
That’s all.
15 days left. Still a lot of work to do but not a long time remaining.
Crap.
I did a few things on day 74 (yesterday) Let us recap!
I put rhythm guitars onto two songs. I think it was two songs. It was two songs, wasn’t it?
I put lead guitar onto one song.
I mixed two songs.
I wrote lyrics and a melody for one song.
Not sure what I will have time for today (day 75). I have a bunch of songs that need lyrics and a few that are ready to mix. Nothing is waiting on guitars at the moment though. I should focus on the lyrics and the melodies so that I can do a car music tomorrow morning. I think that’s the plan. I also want to add one more song if I can. I’m at 52 total right now and I want to be at 53 when everything is over.
I did it again. I messed up my morning routine. Big time. I overslept, then I had a problem that came up and screwed up my morning exercise. I am just off today… again.
I did work on some music though. I put rhythm guitars onto two songs. I used my SG for both of them.
Then I switched to my Les Paul Custom and put leads onto one song.
Musically speaking, what’s next for today? I haven’t a clue. I’ll let you know once I straighten out my brain. Maybe in 25 years or something? Who knows.
I worked on one song on day 73. One new thing that managed to get a song form and MIDI bass and drums.
Hoping for more today but not sure how things will go down.
Just the one mix that I mentioned late last night. 41 songs down, nine to go. 82% complete. Lots of stuff to do today, including recovering from a terrible nights sleep. Not sure what I will have time for. We’ll see how it goes.
I was afraid I was going to get shut out on the ol’ 50/90 challenge today so I snuck in a mix before bed.
Yeah, it sounds terrible at times but I do sort of dig the song. A little at least.
Vocals for two songs. Rhythm guitars for one. Lead guitars for one. That’s all.
I have next week off from work with no set plans. I wonder if I could have this whole thing wrapped up by the end of next week. Further… what if I try to sneak in an album in a day thing while I’m on vacation. That would be just crazy.
I played some guitar this morning. Judging by the above screen shot from my Apple Watch, I may have changed up the recording workflow a smidge.
Oh yes, yes I did.
I played through a speaker. Instead of using my Fender Bassbreaker 15 and my Vox MV50 Clean amps with their direct line outputs and speaker cabinet emulation functionality, I plugged into my Fender Deluxe Reverb. In the next photo you can see that the power light is on and it is glorious.
I then did the craziest thing ever. I took the volume knob and turned it up. Way up. It wasn’t full blast, but it was close enough for a Thursday morning. In the next photo you will see proof.
The volume was a smidge under nine. Again, glorious. Spectacular. I had an overdrive pedal boosting the input signal as well and it was distorting nicely. Tube amps are just the best things ever. I should have actually brought the volume down a little as the signal was over compressing to the point of being a squashed, squirely mess, but that’s okay. I’m just making demoes, right?
I played my SG because it was out of the case and sitting on the stand next to my desk. I probably should have played my Les Paul Custom, but this was fine with me. I ended up adding rhythm guitars to one song and leads to another. Oh, and I also added vocals to two songs. Fun. I probably could have snuck in a little more 50/90 challenge work, but I had to get ready for work and didn’t want to risk being late.
The one question that remains to be asked: Are my ears still ringing (about an hour after I stopped playing)?
Why yes, yes they are.
Glorious
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