My first crack at Reddit’s Song a Week challenge. I didn’t finish on time. The prompt for 2018 week 9 was two minutes. The idea was to have the run time be less than two minutes. Mine was, except for the cymbal decay on the last note which…

Written for Reddit’s Song a Week subreddit for 2018 week 11. I don’t particularly care for this, but it was the first attempt I made that was actually finished by the Wednesday night deadline. Rhythm guitars are my strat through my 15 watt…

Reddit’s Song a Week, week 13. The prompt? Syncopation. I think this counts. The rhythm under the solo is syncopated enough to have thrown me off every take. I kept losing the 1. Another song with utterly meaningless lyrics. Even more so than…

The last song to be cut from the 2018 RPM Challenge album is the first song finished for the 2018 RPM Challenge left overs album. Rhythm guitars are my Stratocaster to a Vox MV50 direct output. Leads are my ES 335 Pro to a Fender Bassbreaker…

Probably the most ambitious idea I had for RPM2018 which is probably why it got dropped. That and the simple fact that it’s the worst vocal I’ve ever recorded. The idea was to write three short songs and stitch them together into one big song…

This one started out with really quiet verses and really heavy choruses. That was the whole idea for the song. Great big honkin’ chewy dynamics changes. In fact, the working title was actually “Dynamics”. Then, while recording vocals, I thought…

This is an RPM2018 outtake and boy is the album better off without it. The word that kept coming to mind while “mixing” this was turd. Rhythm guitars are ES335 to both the Fender Bassbreaker and Vox MV50 direct outs. The lead is the Strat through…

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This one is the keeper. Every year there is one song that works for me from the first moment the idea starts bubbling up right through the exporting of the final mix. This is it for this year. Another overtly political lyric over a repeating…

This is the first time I’ve ever tried to write a song in 5/8 time. I like this one, but I think there’s too much going on in the mix. For the last couple of years I’ve been in the habit of double tracking all of my vocal parts. While recording…

I kept going back to a songwriting crutch for this year’s RPM Challenge. The idea is to use the same bass line for verses and choruses and have everything else change around it. This is an example of that. Rhythm guitar is a Les Paul direct…

This one is kinda fun to play. I can’t say that very often about my songs. I’m lame like that. Overtly political, but what am I bitching about? There are so many possible answers to that question. Les Pauls all around. Rhythm direct through…

This one was kicked off kind of late in the game. It was originally supposed to be acoustic guitars but I went for my Strat instead. Lots of sauce all over this recording. Rhythm parts were through a Vox MV50. Leads were a Les Paul through a Fender…

10 songs mixed! I didn’t think I was going to make it this year, but I’ve got a submittable batch of tunes with 2.75 hours to spare! Magic! The rhythm guitars are Les Paul through Vox MV50, and the leads are Les Paul through Fender Bassbreaker…