2021 5090 Song Number 22. I am sort of liking this one. It's okay though maybe a bit generic. The lyrics are about a real world situation that's none of your business. Guitar is my Les Paul Standard, amp is my Fender Bassbreaker 15. Pedals…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

5090 Song number 11 out of 50. I like this one. I am kinda enjoying it's groove. Have you caught on to the gimmick in the lyrics yet? It's something I want to do semi regularly this summer and I think this is the second song I posted that…

5090 Song number 10 of 50. I'm 20% complete. Another 12 bar blues. This is the second one I've worked on so far. Expect 30 more. At least. Nothing much to speak of about this one except that "forecast calls for ending it all" might be…

5090 song number nine out of 50. Lots of gimmicks here. Guitarmonies. Drum solo. Four part vocal harmonies singing a minor seventh chord with tons of effects and buried in the mix. Yup, all the standbyes. The guitars are all Les Paul…

50/90 Song number eight of 50. In my defense, I did give you seven whole songs before sharing the one with the 24 measures of backwards guitar solo buried under 700 tons of delay and a rotary speaker. I didn't drop this soupy mess onto you…

50/90 Challenge song Seven of 50. Eh. I don't think I like this one. The vocal melody I came up with was a tad too much for my meager singing skills. It wasn't too bad, just not that good. Oh well. The groove is kinda fun to solo over…

50/90 song number six. A couple of experimental type things (for me, at least) on this song. First: I mixed this through actual speakers. I feel a little giddy just typing that. I don't think I've mixed anything through speakers since…

50/90 Challenge song number five of 50. I feel like most of what I am coming up with right now is overly simplistic. Is that a conscious thing or not? I don't know. This one has the benefit of being a blues in A minor in 3/4 time. A waltzing…

2021 5090 #4. This one is okay. It feels a little too... mathy? Is that a thing? I feel like maybe there needs to be more going on in the chorus, but it has three part vocal harmony so there's that. Subconsciously the whole point of this…

Three down, 47 to go. I like this one even though there is nothing to it. I threw the bass line together on a Friday evening. It was late and I wanted to get something down before I went to sleep. It was a simple little nothing. On Saturday…