Robert James
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 19 becomes finished song number 20.
The 20th and final song worked on for this year's RPM. I think we're going out on a high note this year. I like this one. Everything is working for me except for the…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number eight becomes finished song number 19.
Do I like this because of the swing groove, or in spite of it? I don't know.
The rhythm guitar in your left speaker is a Les Paul Custom and the one in the right…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number seven becomes finished song number 18.
I kinda like this one. I think it's going onto the final RPM Challenge album. I just wish I couldn't hear the keys on the saxophone clicking. I don't think I've ever…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number four becomes finished song number 17.
I'm waffling between not liking this song and thinking it's just meh.
The guitar in your left speaker is a Les Paul Custom and the one in your right is a Les Paul…
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2025 RPM Challenge Song Idea number 13 becomes finished song number 16.
Meh. Waste of a good guitar solo in the outro.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure SM57. The leads are a Gibson Les Paul Standard 50's into…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number seven becomes finished song number 18.
I kinda like this one. I think it's going onto the final RPM Challenge album. I just wish I couldn't hear the keys on the saxophone clicking. I don't think I've ever…
Uploaded
2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 19 becomes finished song number 20.
The 20th and final song worked on for this year's RPM. I think we're going out on a high note this year. I like this one. Everything is working for me except for the…
Uploaded
2025 RPM Challenge song idea number four becomes finished song number 17.
I'm waffling between not liking this song and thinking it's just meh.
The guitar in your left speaker is a Les Paul Custom and the one in your right is a Les Paul…
Uploaded
2025 RPM Challenge song idea number eight becomes finished song number 19.
Do I like this because of the swing groove, or in spite of it? I don't know.
The rhythm guitar in your left speaker is a Les Paul Custom and the one in the right…
Uploaded
2025 RPM Challenge song idea number nine becomes finished song number 15.
This one is not going to make the RPM Challenge album cut. That middle bridge section... what was I thinking? Laughably bad.
The rhythm guitar in your left speaker…
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Volume pedal plus digital delay equals drone.
come to me I love you
be with me for always
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Written during Spring Break 2001. Can you guess which day it comes from? The lyric is about how I was on day 4 and had already run out of ideas. Kinda typical.
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"Vanishing Point" was an attempt to force myself to write a full song. I had been playing in Break Even for about a year and found myself completely unable to write music. I had just set up a nice little 8-track studio (sort of) at home and I…
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Third of seven left overs from April 2007. This one was sort of a throw away from the beginning. It resulted in me not being able to come up with anything clever, so I just threw something easy and hyperactive and short together.
As far as…
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Usually I like songs less when they are finished. This one I think I like more. I had planned on dropping this one but now I'm not sure.
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(Remastered 22/10/2021)
Here it is in all of its glory...
THIS is the song that Mrs R and I had decided was a suitable response to a request to "Upload something HAPPY, stat!!!!!!!!!"
I tried to record it back in 2013 when I wrote it…
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(Remastered 22/10/2021)
And here we go - Edith FINALLY gets it...
Actually, she's been getting it ever since I wrote it on the 29th May. I thought it would take a week or so, but it proved to be more of a fight than I was expecting.
On…
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the telemarketers are working from home, very hard indeed.
this gives me the modern blues
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I remastered this one that got deleted a while ago, still too much stuff in it but keeps rabbits outta the garden when i crank it on exterior speakers outside.
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RPM 2k15
vocals by Ashley Reynolds
this whole place
going down the drain
and i’m going along for the ride
nobody forced my hand
nobody made me this way
nobody tried to stop me either
it’s not what i say, what i do
it’s everything all…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number two becomes finished song number four.
You know, I was a music major in my past. 1989-1991 I attended the University of Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts (it changed its name to UMass Lowell during my last…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number one becomes finish song number three.
Dumb rocker with a not-so-terrible chorus, I guess.
The rhythm guitars are a Gibson Les Paul Custom coming out of your left speaker and a Gibson Les Paul Standard…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number one becomes finish song number three.
Dumb rocker with a not-so-terrible chorus, I guess.
The rhythm guitars are a Gibson Les Paul Custom coming out of your left speaker and a Gibson Les Paul Standard…
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Written during the 2020 50/90 Challenge (I think... wasn't it?) and now re-recorded for Quarantine Tunes Volume Eight. The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project continues... forever.
We're scraping the bottom of the barrel in a big way now.
The…
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2024 50/90 Challenge song idea number 45 becomes finished song number 43.
I have a lot of songs that sound similar to a lot of other songs this year, and this one is no exception. It is, however, a song that I kinda like. If I decide to make…
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One Rule: Don’t Fuck With My Stuff Without Permission.
I am a guitar player and a 3rd rate songwriter.
See also: http://alonetone.com/breakevenmusic
Prior to the switch to the white UI I was having an issue where all of my uploads were marked as private and I couldn’t change them. I created a second account and moved on. Then after the white UI switch I found a couple of tracks had vanished so I moved everything back to this account and deleted v2.
from Methuen, MA
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