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…

2021 50/90 Challenge, song #2. I started this at midnight on July 4, 2021. The very minute the 50/90 challenge started. I'm 90% sure I've used almost exactly the same melody before, and I'm 99.999% sure I've used exactly the same guitar and…

And the 2021 50/90 Challenge is underway. One down, 49 to go. This one came quick and easy, which probably means I've written this entire song already but who cares. I like the chorus. I sing an arpeggio. It's almost like I took two years…

You know, 50/90 starts in a week. I probably should not be wasting new song ideas now when I could wait a week and have them count toward the fifty songs. Oh well. Written on Saturday. Recorded on Saturday and Sunday. Mixed before work…

This is the result of a stunning lack of rehearsing. I write these little songs as I am recording them and as a result there is no actual rehearsing of anything involved. I do it all on the spot. I really enjoy that process but sometimes…

The RPM Challenge site's Record Every Month Challenge has an entry for June. This one started out in May but it was just the chords from the chorus in the little music memo file on my iPhone. It didn't actually become a song until June. It…

The third candidate for the May entry in RPM's Record Every Month challenge. I think I'm going to submit one of the other ones. This song is okay, and I like the chorus a lot, I just don't think I quite pulled it off. I wrote the melody first…

Another song for the RPM Challenge Record Every Month thing. I have three for May but I haven't decided which one to actually submit. I'm leaning toward this one, but the next one I upload might be a smidge better. We'll see. I think the…

It's 12:30 am on a Saturday morning. I'm at my parents' house helping take care of my mother while my father is in the hospital. She had a colossally shitty night health wise but everything is okay now. She's asleep but I am a little shell…

I think I know what I need to do to make this a good song. I need a competent singer, a competent guitar player, a competent bass player who is actually a human, a competent drummer who is also actually a human, a competent lyricist, a competent…

Another stinker left over from the Record Every Month Challenge in March, though maybe not quite as awful as I initially thought... though still pretty crappy. Can you dig that there's a rotary speaker on the bass in the intro? There's a first…

So this one's a dog, sorry. This is a leftover from the RPM Challenge Record Every Month Challenge for March. I wrote and recorded a handful of songs and then submitted the best one. Actually, I only mixed the best one and the rest have…

The final song for the Quarantine Tunes Volume 4 is finally complete. I think. I mixed it using Apple Air Pods Pro and it sounds super trebly to me. I think it will be okay with different headphones/speakers though, but I'll have to try it…