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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February projects into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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RPM. Month of concessions. I had lots of ideas, and they all seemed to fall apart. Time was not in abundance. Glad this was a leap year, for me to squeeze this out in a few hours after work.
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A sea shanty that I wrote for the collaborative "Mayors" project. Featuring Jarrett Osborn on drums.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 20 becomes finished song number 20. Fitting, eh?
This one isn't going to make the final album. It's okay but I think there are at least 10 songs better this year. Oh well. I'm too tired to care. 2.5 hours…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 14 becomes finished song number 19.
Fmajor7 to Eminor7. I use that change a lot. I used it as the entire basis of this song. It didn't really work. This one doesn't do much for me. It's okay, but it's not…
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Built an Omri Cohen patch idea in VCV Rack, recorded a couple of takes, then edited and arranged the results in Reaper.
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VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!
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Messing with an audio field recording in VCV Rack.
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VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!
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Various LABS instruments and a couple of Hainbach plugins in Reaper.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 13 becomes finished song number 18.
I like this one. It's kinda bouncy and fun. The melody is better than my usual crap too. A little bit better at least.
Rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Custom. Leads are…
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The mischievous hungry tech pirates at it again.
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That satisfactory feeling after all the hard work is done.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 16 becomes finished song number 17.
This one will make the album, I think. I kinda like it even though I am sure I have written this exact song about 100 times before. Oh well. It has a nice 6/8 groove…
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This track was created from an acoustic loop of a Celtic instrument which I put through a virtual pedal + amp chain to turn into the backing 'electric guitar' track.
The plucked acoustic guitar on top and the flute were played by me (all virtual…
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Toward the end of the month, I (Kevin) got a wild hair to try something silly with Robbie’s sweet little acoustic ditty about the cycle of the seasons, which lets us end the album on a sweet and hopeful note. Hope you like it!
Robbie Robinson…
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Everything was recorded live off the floor except the harmony vocal track, which was added a couple of weeks later.
Margaret Bibb – lyrics, songwriting, vocals
Robbie Robinson – guitar
Kevin Craig – recording, bass, mixing
These Old Boots…
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Another lovely Monroe/Robinson collaboration. This one was recorded piecemeal across the whole month of February 2024, with Robbie adding the guitar lead on 2/29 while I (Kevin) was doing the final(-ish) mixes!
Leum Monroe – lyrics
Robbie…
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This short track also spawned from Robbie’s “E Rock Jam”, though in a more roundabout way than Sugar Free Jam earlier on the album.
On 2/17, we recorded John’s drum tracks for the full 5-minute song, then got a take of Cody playing keys along…
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This one was kind of a scatter-shot collaboration. Robbie was playing around with the guitar riff before band practice one night, so Kenny and I (Kevin) joined in on vocals and drums, respectively. Robbie recorded that jam, then fleshed out the…
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Another Monroe-Robinson collaboration. So glad Kenny brought those two together a few years ago!
As with a few other tracks this time around, Robbie recorded his parts on his own, then we replaced the canned GarageBand drum loops with actual…
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I'll leave it to the listener to decide if it's more of a bonus to listen to this track or skip it. This is more of the didgeridoo/Otamatone/Stylophone session.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024…
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The idea for this one came to Margaret as she was walking to the studio for band practice one night, and we’re glad it did!
Margaret, Robbie, and I (Kevin) recorded the main takes together live off the floor during our usual band practice timeslot…
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I was hoping for more background noise, to be honest. I even went out and recorded just some background noise to mix it in. This is the epitome of "phoning it in".
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the…
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Robbie put together a 5-minute track (“E Rock Jam”) that was meant to feature a bunch of guitar leads from various folks and maybe some vocals, but the timing never quite worked out to get those laid down. We did, however, record some of John…
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The title pretty much says it all. I recently got a Theremini, and this is me trying to figure it out.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
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This one was quite a journey!
Robbie recorded the main guitar parts and a couple of vocal takes on his own, then invited the group to come up with additional parts. On 2/17, after we’d finished up recording a bunch of other stuff (including…
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Ok, not really a djembe, just a plate, but I needed the alliteration for the song title.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
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Just Leum and an acoustic guitar. Sometimes, that’s all you need. :)
Leum Monroe – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitar
Kevin Craig – recording, mixing
Our Surprise
by Leum Monroe
Would I stand near the ocean just to hear your cry…
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Robbie’s ode to a favorite vacation destination on the Gulf of Mexico.
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, bass, recording, arrangement
Kenny Tannehill – background vocals
Margaret Bibb – background vocals
Kevin Craig…
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This is me and two friends goofing around a campfire with a travel didgeridoo, Otamatone, and Stylophone.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
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As February and the RPM Challenge approached, Margaret was surprised to find herself gravitating toward country music this time around, but she rolled with it and finished the lyrics in time for us to lay down some scratch tracks on 2/10. Over…
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I needed to keep the streak alive.
15 years of RPM.
But life has been in the way. Considerably. It's not worth getting into, but music is currently so far down the priority list it's not even funny.
But I found time on the 28th to…
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It's a b-side song for RPM 2024, mostly because I needed a second song in order to create a playlist here.
I need a b-side songs for the flip side
A b-side song to prove that I tried
To put in the effort, to get things done
To try to…
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I like the word "Shellac" so I made a song about shellac, that's it. For this one I decided to play my old broken trash-picked drum kit instead of using MIDI drums. I spent about a week trying to fix that snare and if anything it sounds worse…
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in a deck of 52
dressed to the 9's in red and black suits
4 kings to give the orders
all absent minded fathers
4 queens to run for cover
forever missing mothers
2 jokers, they're the brothers
one in monochrome, the other full colour…
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was it something I said?
a micro-expression you read?
I'm not cold hearted, I'm just trying to understand
I'm trying to understand
understand it all
between me and you
there isn't much room
to open my heart wide
I'm trying to get that…
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I'm wishing someone can go for a ride
I'm wishing, I'm wishing you well
I've got something that's growing inside
I'm hoping, I'm hoping I'm well
we got no backbone
we got no soul
we've got no back-up plan
no one can know
why you go rushing…
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she's got a confident way of talking
knows where she's going when she walks
her fashion sense is never shocking
but it says "she's a boss"
it says "she's on top"
there is no question she can't answer
whether it's secular or trife
she…
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mixin' up a little bit of something special
want to make you feel like we're in this together
it'll make you larger than life
from my pocket, roll the dice
it suggests just what the next step is
and knowing this makes me better
throw…
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don't ask me out to a movie
cause i'm not gonna go
don't tell me you're having a party
cause i already know
it's an 80's theme
i saw it in my stream
but i didn't accept or decline
i just said maybe
and maybe means no
maybe always means…
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looking through the backwoods
I heard that motor start
I knew that you were leaving but I knew not very far
coming up the driveway I knew it was my chance
running through the backwoods
we'll meet by happenstance
looking at my kingdom which…
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my vision's blurry round the opening of your mouth
and i'm not so sure it's sound that's coming out
just take the time to form the consonants and vowels
cause i'm not a lip reader
never learned how
not for lack of wanting
mistaken vocab…
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as far as I can remember
you ruined November
was a weather system I suppose
you wanted the best of me
in a penitentiary
where there's no forgiveness
I don't know
if November's light would stay up past 5
well then I wouldn't mind…
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i set a wire in the woods
on a cold dark night when no one should be out
i was alone for a time
when the rabbits start to run the rings around my eyes
watching the shadows come to life
under cold, stark gaze of electric light
already hungry…
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