2024 RPM Challenge idea number five becomes completed song number two. This one is okay. The key change in bar number 66 is my favorite thing about it but I like the chorus too. Not a great song, but probably good enough to make this year…

Rough draft only

I'm tired the way social media has negatively impacted people's lives. The song is a call to simply make time for people without phones.

Song idea number one for the 2024 RPM Challenge becomes finished song number one. This might be the only song I like for this year's RPM Challenge. We'll see. Is the mix too reverby? Probably. I like it today but I might not like it tomorrow…

guitar

More layered improv, this time I'm playing the drums.

Nocturne is a drone with some experimental vocals, intended to be relaxing to the point of sleepy time. It uses a number of synth tracks with random note generators connected with rules about mode (D dorian), and basic timings (though it does…

Wrote it for the hell of it. Was going to try for blues but it did it's own thing.

Wrote this just after last years RPM. Maybe a little John Prine influence in the lyrics ? Kind of fun :-)

Haven't used my old Harmony with a slide for awhile. Futzed around and came up with this. Keeping it simple.

Just trying to make myself write and this came about.

Yup, my wife is the girl :-} I wish I could have made it sound as good as she looks.

Just kind of jammed this and thought it might be cool to record it.

Just had to do this. We've all had to deal with someone like this and in some ways might have wished at least for a moment we were them.

Trying not to sound the same, so I tried this.

Was kind of in a grumpy mood when I wrote this one. Wrote and recorded pretty much all at once.

[Verse 1] I just got a new method Doing something that's better than the usual thing When anxiety strikes, you use your lungs Noticing how the space is filled up Today is better than yesterday And yesterday not as much as just this day…