There are a few things from this month's batch of songs that I tried to kind of improvise the rhythm guitar part. I looped a section of the song and without figuring out what I wanted to do ahead of time I hit record and saw what happened. This…

So... I usually try to come up with a little story about each song when I post. This time... I got nothing. It's in 7/8 and there was one section that I screwed up the guitar part about a million times. Other than that? I got nothing. The…

So... I usually try to come up with a little story about each song when I post. This time... I got nothing. It's in 7/8 and there was one section that I screwed up the guitar part about a million times. Other than that? I got nothing. The…

This was the first idea I had for RPM this year. It was the first song to have guitars, the first to have lyrics, the first to have pretty much everything. Why then wasn't it the first to get mixed? I don't know. I kinda like this but maybe…

Sweet Christmas, this puppy is a mess.... ....and I LOVE it! There is actually two mixes going on at once here. I set everything for the beginning and end sections without even listening to the middle. Once I had the two mixed where I could…

I setup a drum loop and started playing and this is what happened. The verse is a 12-bar, the chorus is the V chord section of a 12-bar. There were a lot of punch ins for both the rhythm guitar and the bass, but there was no copy and paste anywhere…

This is the band mix of this song: https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/playlists/rpm2020---finished-mixes,-so-far/good-people-(coffee-shoppe-mix) The only note worth making is that unlike almost every other song I worked on this year, the…

My post-RPM Challenge plan is to just keep going. Here's my first March 2020 Challenge song. I am trying to go much more raw and low-fi than usual. One guitar straight into one amp. No doubling, not extensive overdubs. Same with the vocals…

The second song for my ridiculous post-RPM Challenge album in a month yet again thing. I was working on a guitar part for another song when I played the riff for this by accident. I dropped everything and made sure I had it recorded. I was…

The third song of my socially distant RPM ii: RPMarch 2020 thing or whatever it is. I have this need to try and make 3/4 time rock. This one is okay. Recording the vocals in the car on a Friday morning before work is even weirder than usual…