The RPM Challenge's Record Every Month (REM) challenge lives. April has a song. I wrote it and recorded it all in the last week of the month but who cares, it's done. For a challenge within the challenge within the challenge, I decided to…

This is another re-recorded song, but there is a little twist this time. In 2016's RPM Challenge there are two songs that were supposed to be an argument between a flat earther and a non-mentally defective human. They were The Flat Earth…

I think a full year of writing and recording and re-recording might have burned me out a bit but I still have stuff I want to do and finishing the last few songs from teh fourth round of Quarantine Tunes is on the agenda (so is remixing volume…

The good folks at the RPM Challenge came up with a year round game for us to play. Record Every Month. One song each month. I'm game, but I don't think I'll stick to just one. I was trying to get 10 done in March 2021 but here I am on the…

This is the 20th and final song for the 2021 RPM Challenge. Nothing left to do now but to sort the songs into the album that gets submitted and the leftovers album that doesn't. This one's on the bubble. I expect it to go into the leftovers…

I should have named this song Double Meaning Blues. Allow me to explain. My wife, step son, and I spent much of January and early February working on redesigning a couple of rooms in our house. A big part of the project involved putting together…

I figured I needed a social distance song. I mean is it even quarantine if you don't write a social distance song? This was from my January album in a month fail. At one point I thought that maybe I could write 10 songs with swing grooves…

I started writing this one in January and finished it and recorded it in February. Now in hindsight I'm thinking I should probably have left it in January. I like the chorus. I kinda like the two guitars trading 8's and the guitarmonies. Otherwise…

Pointless backstory that won't be interesting to anyone other than me when I look back at this tune at some point in the distant future: RPM Challenge asks for 10 songs or 35 minutes recorded in February. FAWM asks for 14 songs written during…

This was the third song I started working on this month and it's the 15th song finished. What does that tell you? I liked it a lot when I first came up with the idea. When I put the rhythm guitars down it started to feel like it wasn't meeting…

This was the 12th song started this month and it's the 14th song finished. It's important in that it officially makes me a winner for FAWM this year, but it's unimportant for the RPM Challenge as this puppy goes straight to the dropped song list…

This is the 13th song finished. It was both the 15th and the 20th song started. It's a long story. I was in the car recording vocals and it started raining. When I finished the tracks I needed to finish I pointed the microphone at the sun…

Okay... there's a lot to talk about with this goof ball. The first song I did this year had a drone-like fuzzy guitar. I did it again here but I wanted the song I put around it to be different than the other one, even though the changes are…

This one seems destined for the dropped list. It's just kinda blah. The verses remind me of a King Crimson Projekct song and I can't remember the title. Something from Scarcity of Miracles (great album, by the way). The choruses remind me…

The seventh song started for this year's RPM Challenge is the 10th song finished. I now officially have both targets complete. 10 songs and 35 minutes. This year is officially successful. Granted, I still have 10 more songs in the pipeline…

Another song, another faux trippy ending. I should change the name of the album to Faux Trippy Endings. What do you think? Lyrically I think this song is just about the last year. When I recorded the rhythm guitars I was pretty stoked…

The 10th song started is the eighth song finished. Looking at my iTunes playlist I see that the eight songs have topped the 35 minute mark, which means I have enough to submit an RPM Winner this year. Hooray! I don't hate this one, but I…

Are the sound effect things getting old yet? I can't decide. This one came from here: https://freesound.org/people/keus92/sounds/445228/ This time I trimmed it to the appropriate length and then played it backward. Aint I a stinker? This…

The second song started is the sixth song finished. Not terrible, though there are a lot of bad guitar sounds. The rhythm tone is kinda sloppy. The playing is sloppy too, but the tone itself is more noticeable this time. The lead sounds flubby…

When I was tracking the rhythm guitar I was feeling the groove on this in a major way. When I was tracking the vocals I thought it was better than my usual terrible. Somehow I was wrong on both fronts. The guitar sounds like mud and the vocals…