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 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…

The first mix for the 2019 RPM Challenge. I’m pretty sure I am going to re-record the lead guitars before the month is over. The lyrics were inspired by an @_floridaman article about a guy who drove a Ferrari into the ocean because god told…

This one is unusual for me in that I kinda like the melody but the riff is kind of a throw away. It’s almost always the other way around… or more likely I just hate it all. This is noteworthy for this year’s RPM Challenge in that it was the last…

Why don’t I write songs in ¾ more often? This one is kinda fun to play. I’m not sure if it will make the final cut for the RPM Challenge album or not, but it’s done and that’s what matters right now. The guitars are a Gibson SG into a Fender…

The second of three (so far) songs for the 2019 RPM Challenge with lyrics inspired by a ghost story. This time a woman who was executed for witchcraft (yup, I live in New England) who cursed her accuser. Years later his family built a memorial…

Songs in 6/8 time should be faster, shouldn’t they? This one is slooow. I think in previous RPM Challenge projects this would have been a sludgy metal song. Not this year though. The lyrics are about a ghost town in Connecticut where things started…

I waited until RPM Challenge song #20 before I used a 12-bar blues. This was a guitar noodle that happened when I finished everything I had planned to work on that day but wasn’t quite ready to stop playing. I like that feeling. The lyrics are…

You can’t have an album worth of ghost story songs without at least one haunted lighthouse song, right? I have no idea what I was going for with this song but it doesn’t sound anything like what I had in mind. It sort of fell apart and then fell…

The 10th and final ghost story song for this year’s RPM Challenge. I think it needs more wah-wah pedal. Maybe. Not sure if I like this or not. I might. Or I might not. I can’t decide. The guitars are all Gibson SG through a Fender Deluxe Reverb…

I needed to make sure I was over 20 minutes so I recorded about a minute of noise.

This song kinda sucks. Okay, it really sucks.

This one is kinda crappy.

Look at me getting all like The Edge and using a delay as a rhythm effect.

This one is okay. Nothing too special, but it is in 7/8 (assuming I’m writing about the track I think I’m writing about. Who knows).

My first impression was this one wasn’t very good. As the day wore on though it kinda grew on me. Now that I’ve made it track two I think I’m starting to not like it again.

My tribute to a classic scene from Dusk till Dawn. "Satanico Pandemonium, she dances with a snake..." Appropriate for an October release.