Six songs down for the 2023 RPM Challenge. Jeff Beck died and I was gutted. It's hard to lose your heroes, but it's also odd to feel so emotional about the loss of someone you've never met. Life is weird, right? I did not want to write…

Five songs down. Somewhere between five and nine to go. This one was fun to play. Both the rhythm guitar parts and the solos were just fun. I don't think anything is particularly good, I just enjoyed myself. That was a nice feeling. The…

Four songs complete for the 2023 RPM Challenge and I think this one might be the winner. I have it penciled in for track one. I came up with the opening (Asus2 -> Cmaj7) while testing the signal path into GarageBand when I was setting up…

I like this one. I don't like much from this year's project, but this one works for me. I don't know if it's got "track 1" vibes or not. It's too slow and somber (I think I found my album title). Hopefully something with a little more pep…

Two songs down for the 2023 RPM Challenge. This one is okay. Sort of like everything this year, it's just sort of okay, sort of. Two amps on the rhythm guitars. I had that set up for the first three songs but one of the amps started making…

The first song for the 2023 RPM Challenge is complete! This month has been incredibly rough for me. We lost my mother on February 5th after a horrible nine days in hospice after a horrible eight months in a dementia ward in a nursing home after…

A straight ahead rock song in 5/4 time. I think this is an improvement over the first version, but not by a whole lot. I think it rocks a little harder, which was my main beef the first time around. It's fun to play, and it's not terrible to…

I can't tell if this song is good or if I just like it because it's fun to jam over the ending. This was one of my 50/90 gimmicks. I was planning on a bunch of songs with lyrics where each verse/chorus was a haiku. In the end I only did…

Another song from this year's 50/90 given a second look. I don't know what to think about it. I haven't played it back to back with the first version, but except for preferring this one's slightly faster tempo I am not sure if it is better or…

My fear for this song is that it's more fun to play than it is to listen to. I'm not sure about this mix. I feel like I am getting way too cute here. I also wonder if what I really like about this song is the verse and everything else doesn…