This one is a coffee shoppe arrangement but as soon as I had the guitar parts down I thought it would sound good with drums and bass. As soon as I had that thought I decided to do two versions of each acoustic song. Verse 1 There’s got to…

Back in 1991 I was a music major at UMass Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. I was in the audio program and I was flunking out because I had zero math skills. I was not flunking out in the instrumental music courses though. I played guitar at…

The first RPM2020 song. For this song I setup a click track and just started playing. There are only two phrases and there are punch in's everywhere and many of them are just plain bad. I don’t believe what I want to believe I only believe…

I woke up this morning with an idea for a strummy riff in my head. I telecommuted to work today and in the couple of hours before I had to punch in to work I wrote all the sections and recorded the rhythm guitars to a guide drum track. During…

I liked this one as I was working on it. Now that it's done... meh. I feel like I am trying to do too much with way too little. It was a nice idea, and I love anything in 7/8, but I don't know about this puppy. The lyrics are the first time…

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…

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 guy: https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/time's-up-(coffee-shoppe-mix) The acoustic guitar and the vocals are the same on both mixes. Everything else is different. Today’s the day the end of days…

I woke up this morning with an idea for a strummy riff in my head. I telecommuted to work today and in the couple of hours before I had to punch in to work I wrote all the sections and recorded the rhythm guitars to a guide drum track. During…

This is an alternate mix of an RPM2020 song. I'm hoping half of my album will be arranged for acoustic guitar, hand percussion, and saxophone. I also want to do an alternate mix of each of those songs with the usual three piece rock band arrangement…