RPM Challenge 2022 song number 3. This one is okay. I have a feeling that anytime I work in 6/8 time I come up with exactly this song. I knew the lyrics in the chorus (the second line) were bad but I thought I could live with them. Now…

The second song started for the 2022 RPM Challenge is the second song finished. I'm sort of working off a first in first out queue this year. I didn't plan it that way, but that's how it's going. I'm disappointed in this one. It's not a…

The first song worked on and the first song finished. The 2022 RPM Challenge is well underway! I had a few gimmicky ideas for this year's challenge and this song hits on some of them. First, I wanted to get away from the small room reverb…

After almost seven years, my stupid little idea to re-record a few songs and improve/update them comes to a glorious end. Finally! It was supposed to be 8-10 songs and here I am posting #57 (I think). Enough already! This is what happens…

In 2014 I finished the RPM Challenge at the end of February and then did another album in a month in March... and in April... and so on for the rest of the year. This was from April (I think) and I was literally asking myself what the hell I…

Quarantine Tunes Volume 6 is one step closer to completion. Only two more songs after this one. Finally, right? A lame attempt at funky guitar. I like the song even if it's kind of a lame attempt at cool. Oh well. The arrangement is…

The sixth song taken from the 2016 RPM Challenge to be re-recorded in The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project. I swear that makes sense. Just trust me. I have been saying that this round of Quarantine Tunes (the sixth and final round) is scraping…

This was by far my favorite song from the 2021 RPM Challenge, but I was really disappointed with the recording. I thought the rhythm guitars sounded like crap and the vocals were terrible. This version sort of fixes the rhythm guitars but…

The Quarantine Tunes thing is definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel. I am supposed to be pulling songs from old recording projects and updating and (theoretically) improving them. After five rounds there isn't a whole lot left to use…

Meh. Originally written for the 2010 RPM Challenged and finished about a year and a half later. It was called Dogfight and the lyrics were about... Top Gun, or Hot Shots, or some air combat shit. I can remember sitting at my desk in the cellar…

The final RPM Challenge, Record Every Month Challenge thing is done. March through January, with the actual RPM happening in February. Success, even though I forgot to actually submit a bunch of them. For the second time I seem to have written…

This song has been recorded twice so far. The original was part of the failed RPM Challenge in... 2011? It might have been 2010 but I'm 90% sure it was 2011. I redid it again a few years later when I was wrapping my brain around GarageBand…

Quarantine Tunes Volume 6 will have the only two songs worth listening to (barely) from my botched 2009 RPM Challenge, and the only two songs worth listening to (barely) from my botched 2011 RPM Challenge. This is the first of the two 2011's…

The unsuccessful RPM Challenge in 2009 had two songs that weren't disgustingly bad. I uploaded a version of one the other day. This is the other. Nothing really noteworthy here. I had a new harmony on the first chorus that I during the mix…

The last song for volume five of the re-recorded Quarantine Tunes thing. I thought this had too much sauce on it when I mixed it the first time around and here I am loading up even more soup on the second go-round. I thought this was lacking…

It's getting silly now. I haven't finished Quarantine Tunes Volume 5 (actually, volume 50/90) and here I am uploading the first song for Volume 6. What a moron! I am scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as the quality of songs to be re…

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…

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 Record Every Month song for December. I don't hate this, which is lucky because it's the only new song I've worked on this month. There are some bad edits and some sloppy playing. The vocals are pretty lack luster. The bass might be a…

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…