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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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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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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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one of the batch I made for this year's RPM. The ending veers into G-Funk territory. The bassline reminds me of the heavy part in *Sunburn Vs. The Rhinovirus*
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lo-fi kinda thing ripped from a sample of the Green Hornet radio show
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I place a dust sheet over chairs
Where we would sit, hold each other tenderly
No need to dwell on it
No need to dwell here for long
It feels like time has moved
Where we spilt wine and paint all on carpet tessellations
Conversations empty…
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I think that I'm
Incapable of thought
I craft and work
As that's what I've been taught
But see no joy in Rothko or Matisse
Their brushstrokes leave me cold
A value you can't teach
Teach me to feel pain
Teach me how to love
I think that…
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This will be about grief
This will be about love
This will be about missing you
Will be about love
This will be 'bout you being gone
I've sung this before
This will be 'bout me moving on
I've clung tight to this before
I don't need release…
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A Cold War Love Story 93bpm
Music © 2024 by WGP ⎮ All Rights Reserved
Composing, recording, programming by Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
Words by AI and Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
This track was made in February 2024 especially…
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Message Unseen 120bpm
Music © 2024 by WGP ⎮ All Rights Reserved
Composing, recording, programming by Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
Words by AI and Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
This track was made in February 2024 especially…
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Just a short little ditty to celebrate FAWM '24! I had a great time!! I hope all my FAWM family did as well!!
#acoustic_one_take #singer_songwriter
Lyrics
Tell me a rhyme
Play me a song
Make it happy
oh, just not too long
Give me…
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Formular RPM 120bpm
Music © 2024 by WGP ⎮ All Rights Reserved
Composing, recording, programming by Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
This track was made in February 2024 especially for the RMP Challange 2024. It is part of a three track…
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This was created for fun with as an RPM Challenge album collaboration with a students in my HS music class. Shout outs to Tyler and Nazir!!!
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 15 becomes finished song number 16.
This one is okay. Better than most of the garbage I've piled up this year. I think it will make the final album, but it's sort of on the bubble. I'll bury it in the middle…
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This is a track that is unapologetically scary and unsettling.
Combination of synths and orchestral instruments, some noises...no drums or percussion.
Don't listen alone in the dark.... You have been warned......
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 17 becomes finished song number 15.
I tried to be screwy and make the verses the more developed section than the chorus. Just for something different. There are vocal harmonies in the verses but not in the chorus…
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The Pads of Paddington is a set of 2 pieces (this being the 2nd one). I took inspiration from train sounds/noises.
For this second piece, I used actual recordings of train sounds made by me with my faithful Zoom H1 recorder.
For this piece…
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The Pads of Paddington is a set of 2 pieces (this being the first one). I took inspiration from train sounds/noises although the "pads" of Paddington should technically be called the "drones" of Paddington - however, I am sure you understand the…
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Recorded in 2004, in an old cabin in rural NC. I don’t know why the fake accent.
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Recorded in 2006 in Ashland OR. This was meant to be the backing track for a more complete song, of which all I can remember is the line “All I want to do / Is get stoned and read Harper’s”.
Recorded in an airstream trailer.
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Recorded in 2006 in Ashland OR, in an Airstream trailer I lived in for a summer. I barely had electricity so it’s a miracle I even got this much recorded.
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Recorded in Denver in 2002. I sound like I’m pitching a song to Bread, but I don’t know how I would have liked that comment at the time.
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Recorded in Denver in 2002, but I don’t remember it.
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Recorded in Denver in 2001, then promptly forgotten.
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Recorded in 2001. The notes on the tape case say Moab.
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Recorded in 2001 in an empty apartment in Mesa AZ. The drum kit is a cardboard box and a tambourine. The guitar is an acoustic and I’m sure I had to do some workaround to get it to sound like this.
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A lifetime of laughter when you were just kids
And all that came after the silly things you both did
Those times are long, long gone like they ran off and hid
Then the world got bigger with other places to play
And getting so caught up in…
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Everywhere I go, there's so much noise
They try to tell you you'll be fine if you purchase their new toys
But nothing on this Earth I've ever found
Can bring me back to life when the world's run me down
When nothing else can make it right…
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Recorded 28 FEB 2024 for the RPM Challenge event.
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Based on the novel by Sasa Stanisic. Pretty sure this was the first song I wrote on the ukulele.
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Based upon a novel by the same name by Rivka Galchen, recorded for the RPM challenge ‘08.
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She comes around to steal the day.
When she comes around, she won’t behave.
and all good people kneel and pray.
cause she never frowns at a chance to play.
Planets collide and stars expire.
And I blame that girl for bringing us fire…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 12 becomes finished song number 14.
I can't tell how I feel about this one. Do I hate it or do I mostly not like it. I'm on the fence.
Guitars are a Les Paul Custom for the rhythm tracks and an ES-335 Pro…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 11 becomes finished song number 13.
This one is okay. We'll say it's on the bubble as far as making the final RPM Challenge submission is concerned. I like the vocal harmony at the end and unlike most of the…
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2024 RPM Challenge Song idea number 10 is finished song number 12.
Nope. This one's a pig.
Rhythm guitar signal chain:
Les Paul Custom -> Klon KTR -> Keeley D&M Drive -> Fender Bassbreaker 15 and Vox MV50, both direct output…
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Phew! Song 10 of my RPM 2024 done. Well, this is more of an experimental piece...I threw a bit of everything in...prophet synth, electric guitar, and even some crowd noise (I loved it when Bjork did that so...). The power cutout just as I was…
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The 14th song for the 2024 FAWM challenge. A bluesy rocker. A stream of consciousness thing. Rolled tape (aka hit record on my phone) to a blues progression and sang whatever lyrics popped into my head. Its loud and raw, overloaded my phone mic…
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The RPM veteran’s committee, aka Town Counsel is a group of small town bureaucrats hell-bent on world domination and/or making fun songs. This particular track was a musical game of “telephone” where each counselor added a part to a previously…
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from the album FULL MINGO
vocals Ash Reynolds
mastering Dave Storms
another intentional feeling
that's making me so confused
it's no like I could have predicted
but it's all because of you
because of you
you touch me and lights start…
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from the album FULL MINGO
vocals Ash Reynolds
sax Matt Crandall
mastering Dave Storms
more than a moment and it's gone again
less than a feeling but i'm numb to it
bathed in the sunlight, one more time
we've got to try
hey remember…
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from the album FULL MINGO
vocals Ash Reynolds
mastering Dave Storms
fading hard at the end of the day
i'm tired
feeling weak and my eyes are both
on fire
i'm going home
one way sign at the end of the road
i'm dying
every light…
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from the album "FULL MINGO"
vocals Ash Reynolds
mastering Dave Storms
pain in my heart
it's probably nothing
song in my head
it's time to say something
living this life
it's got to be all
the time
chasing the dream
and i'm always…
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from the album "FULL MINGO"
vocals Ash Reynolds
mastering Dave Storms
you're so ever wanting more
so high
you need but the greed is poor
that's right
and now you fall like a rocket
wasting all my time
you never want to believe that…
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from the album "FULL MINGO"
vocals Ash Reynolds
mastering Dave Storms
there's a wolf at the door
and you try to be very still
on the third floor there's a light
burning so bright
soon you can't feel your feet
and the sweat starts…
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from the album "FULL MINGO"
vocals Ash Reynolds
sax Matt Crandall
mastering Dave Storms
wake up on the floor
with no memory
feel I want to die
in my misery
looking for the phone
always out of reach
feel the darkness come
there's no…
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from the album "FULL MINGO"
vocals Ash Reynolders
mastering Dave Storms
Here we go
I can't wait for you to show, me the way
and I know
there are places we will go, someday
but i'm feeling inside
that there's thing that we hide
and…
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[Verse 1]
Life is what we make it and you surely played a part
Life is what we make it and I surely played a part
Ask yourself how many of your friends are just like you
Ask yourself how many of your friends are just like me
Now ask yourself…
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Korg Volca rack, Minibrute 2, microfreak, guitar improv.
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2024 RPM Challenge song idea number 18 becomes finished song number 11.
This one might make the final album. Then again, it might not. I'm torn. It's okay, but is it okay enough?
Rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Custom. Leads are an ES…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number seven becomes complete song number 10.
Ten songs down. We have enough for a full RPM Challenge album. Nice! Too bad the milestone comes from this total piece of crap burger. Sorry about that.
Rhythm guitars…
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Feeling like a pawn in everyone else's life. Kinda of a stream of consciousness thing in writing the lyrics, just wrote down what popped into my head.
Just a pawn in God's world
Just another pretty girl
Just trying to be what she wasn't…
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“It’s My Life” was written, recorded, and mixed on February 24-25, for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
"It's My Life" written by W. Ng.
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“It’s My Life” was written and recorded on February 24-25, for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
"It's My Life" written by W. Ng.
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“Shining Light” acoustic cover recorded for an equipment test (Seagull S6, built-in microphone on 2015 iPad Pro gen 1).
“Shining Light” written by T. Wheeler, originally by Ash.
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2024 RPM Challenge song idea number eight becomes finished song number nine.
I usually place songs into one of three buckets as I finish mixing them. The A-list bucket is songs that are good enough to make the final album. The B-list is songs…
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“Party Fears Two” acoustic cover recorded live for an equipment test (cheap and old Rogue guitar, built-in microphone on Pixel 4a cell phone). Piano riff added on GarageBand.
“Party Fears Two” written by MacKenzie/Rankine, originally by The…
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interpolates lyrics from "Back In The Day" by Ahmad and "Everything I Am" by Kanye West
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I remember Super Soakers, our trampoline
Playing with the neighbor kids, what a happy scene
Super Nintendo and Gameboy when we had to be, inside…
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Now then
I can't listen
As it offends my sensibility, yep
I hold the truth high
Those bears, they need a-baiting
And there's a loom to weave
Show me your intention
Deny the next idea
Show me your intention
Deny the next idea
Check…
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I don't have the money
I'm barely getting by
I wish I had a job now
I wish that I was high
22 and lonely
I don't know what to do
I wait for time to change me
Into someone new
I always feel the cold
so hard to keep warm
I always feel…
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