Robert James's listening history
2021 5090 Song Number 21
70-75 beats per minute is sort of my happy place. My groove's comfort zone if you will. If I didn't stop myself, I'd write everything at that tempo. This summer I have done a pretty good job avoiding it. So much…
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2021 5090 Song Number 20.
This one isn't too bad. I think it's the only song for this project so far that I wrote the melody first. I've had mixed results with that method (I'm definitely a music first guy) but this one works.
The guitarmonies…
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2021 5090 Song Number 19.
How about the vocals in the verse sections, huh? Pitchy much? Holy crap! I promise you all that I spent a lot of time working on getting the vocals right and when I was tracking them I swear I left them at a place…
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2021 50/90 Challenge song number 18.
Major keys? Oh come on. That's not rock and roll! At least it's in 5/4 time so I can pretend it has a little prog cred.
I was sure I was going to end up hating this one. So much so that I sat on it…
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2021 50/90 Challenge song number 17.
Noteworthy to no one but me that this is the first song started and finished within the month of August. So it counts for the RPM Challenge's Record Every Month thing. I haven't submitted a song to the…
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2021 50/90 song number 16 of 50.
I like this one. I think I screwed up the guitar part in the chorus about a thousand and two times before I finally had a useable take. I think it was probably worth it.
The guitars are a Les Paul standard…
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2021 5090 song number 15.
There was a song I uploaded a couple of weeks ago that was called Calling that I am a little afraid to listen to back to back with this one because I think I wrote the same song twice again.
Are the rhythm guitars…
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2021 50/90 song number 14 of 50.
A 12-bar blues I noodled together on my iPad late one night when I thought I was going to get shut out for the day. It was the very definition of a throw away and yet somehow I kinda like it. I really like…
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2021 5090 Song Number 13 of 50 (hopefully).
I like the verses. I kinda like the half tempo breaks. I don't like the chorus. If you listen closely during the guitar solos you may be able to hear the shower running in the next room. I am…
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2021 5090 Song Number 12.
Is it a requirement for one of these goofy writing/recording internet challenges to write something ballady in 6/8 time? If it is then mark me as done.
I keep saying this, but the songs feel very overly simple…
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