2021 50/90 Song Number 50! WOOHOO! Success! 2014, 2020, and now 2021. I kinda like this one. It's kinda swampy, in a good way. I like the strummy solos. I probably should have put more work into them but I think I can live with this…

2021 50/90 Song Number 49 I like this one and I can't figure out why. It's certainly not because of the recording because it's pretty hacky. You can pretty much hear every punch and every edit. It's certainly not because of the vocals because…

2021 50/90 Song Number 48 Not bad. I like the phaser on the guitars in the A section, and I like the wah on the rhythm near the end. That wash of noise underneath is actually a guitar solo that was sort of hiding the slow wah effect so I…

2021 50/90 Song Number 47 Well now that this one is done I think we can forget it ever happened. I don't know, maybe I'll take the sections with the harmony vocals and the wah-wah on the rhythm guitar and try to work those into a song that…

2021 50/90 Song Number 46. Not terrible. It feels punky to me which implies that this is what punky sounds like to people who don't really know what punky sounds like. Short and sweet. I think the chorus could stand a rewrite, but otherwise…

2021 50/90 Song Number 45 Eh. Not really feeling this one anymore. It's not terrible as a big dumb rocker, but it lost me somewhere. The mix sounds pretty ratty to my tired brain right now. Maybe I'll like it more in the morning. All…

2021 50/90 Song Number 44 Another swing thing... sort of. Not as overt as the others, and I really wasn't planning on it. The GarageBand session drummer suggested it and I figured the session drummer knows best, right? All of the fun of…

2021 50/90 Song Number 43 This is actually my 53rd and likely final song idea for this year's 50/90 and I kinda like it. I mean it is kinda boring, what with what I laughingly referred to as a chorus just being eight bars of Emin7, and one…

2021 50/90 Song Number 42 A couple of days ago I posted a song called Goodnight Hold Tight and on the notes I mentioned that there was another song coming that was (completely by accident) structurally identical. This is that song. Can…

2021 50/90 Song Number 41. I haven't really slept in almost three days and yet I mixed a song. I have no idea if it's listenable or not. Am I overusing the wah pedal? Why yes, yes I am. Is it bad? Hell if I know, I am so tired I'm not…

2021 50/90 song number 40. I am not sure what I was going for with this one, but I got it... whatever it was. Lots of sauce on this. Delays all over the place, Dotted eighth note echo tricks, panning tricks, backwards tracks, pretty much…

2021 50/90 Song Number 39. A little song about a girl named Jennifer. This one came together lightning fast and I think it shows. As I was sitting here mixing it just now I came up with about 10 ideas to make it better and as a result it…

2021 50/90 Song Number 38. As of now this will be the last 12 bar blues, but I could always sneak another one in under the wire. I'm kinda tired of this. I waffled on whether to leave the huge ending in place or cut it out. During the…

2021 50/90 Song Number 37. Well... I don't know. It was late at night one night back in August, the 3rd to be exact, and I said to myself, "self? You know what you're lacking? Swing grooves." So I guess this one means I'm not lacking…

2021 50/90 Song Number 36 It's the 36th song finished even though it was the 10th song started. It's been sitting collecting dust for quite a while. The idea was to write a proggie 7/8 rocker where the drummer played with brushes. GarageBand…

2021 50/90 Song Number 35. They don't ask how good, they just ask how many. It's not a total disaster, but I'm pretty disappointed with this one. If the mix sounds sloppy it's because I more or less gave up on this one as I was working…

2021 50/90 Song Number 34 Groovy. Or at least it would have been in more capable hands. Another in a long list of "record this first idea that pops into your head when you plug in your guitar" songs. I wasn't planning on 5/4 time, but…

2021 509/90 Song Number 33. The tempo thing is a gimmick. I had it set in Garageband at 140 bpm but for the first few minutes all the sections have the drummer playing at 1/2 speed. So without actually changing the tempo, the last minute…

2021 50/90 Song Number 32 Another song with a haiku for each stanza. I was planning on doing this a lot this summer but I think there are only two or three. I still have time to add more but I probably won't. This is unique this year in…

2021 5090 Song Number 31 I'm not sure why I don't write key changes more often than I do. I wonder if it's a subconscious desire to cut and paste repeated verses and choruses and such. If you sing the first verse in C minor (as I did with…