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2024 RPM Challenge idea number nine becomes completed song number four. I'm hovering between "this is okay" and "this is almost okay." I don't hate it. I think it goes to the chorus a few too many times (is that even possible?) and the mix…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number two becomes finished song number three. This one is almost okay. The vocals aren't good and the lead guitars are terrible in places. I am so rusty and I can't seem to shake it off. It really shows here. This…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number five becomes completed song number two. This one is okay. The key change in bar number 66 is my favorite thing about it but I like the chorus too. Not a great song, but probably good enough to make this year…
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Song idea number one for the 2024 RPM Challenge becomes finished song number one. This might be the only song I like for this year's RPM Challenge. We'll see. Is the mix too reverby? Probably. I like it today but I might not like it tomorrow…
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Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven lives again! A year and a half after I finished the first two songs for the project, we finally have a third song! This one was written and originally recorded as part of the 2021 RPM Challenge (titled Guilt Machine…
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Today is New Years Eve. Less than six hours from now it will be 2024 in the Eastern United States. Right at the last minute, I was able to sneak in a song for the Record Every Month Challenge. It's not a good song, but I sort of feel like…
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2023 50/90 song idea #34 becomes finished song #31. Another big dumb rocker in seven. Nothing really interesting going on here. The rhythm guitars are my Les Paul Standard into a Klon KTR into an Analog Man King of Tone into a Fender Bassbreaker…
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2023 50/90 Challenge song idea #40 becomes finished song #30. A typical attempt at head banging in 7/8 time. Mediocre at best. All of the guitars are my Gibson SG into the Fender Bassbreaker 15. The fuzzy rhythm tracks are a Way Huge Russian…
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2023 50/90 Challenge idea number 49 becomes finished song number 29. This would have been the second song in an album in a day challenge as well if I hadn't have caught Covid that very day. Bad luck. The song is okay. I don't like the hook…
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2023 50/90 Challenge idea number 48 becomes finished song number 28. We came home from a planned long weekend trip to Disney World early because my wife was sick. Turns out it was Covid. I was feeling fine though so I tried to do an album…
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2023 50/90 Challenge idea number five becomes finished song number 27. This one is okay. An attempt at syncopation sort of almost pulled off... I guess. Rhythm guitars are Les Paul Standard to Klon KTR to Analog Man King of Tone to Fender…
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2023 50/90 Challenge idea number 30 is finished song number 26 and it is pretty weak, if I do say so myself. The cleanish rhythm guitar is a Les Paul Standard into a Klon KTR into a Fender Bassbreaker 15 (direct). The dirtier guitar at the…
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2023 50/90 Challenge idea number 26 becomes finished song number 25. I think the way the melody handles the chord change in the chorus is clever. Everything else about this song is a dog. Rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Standard into an MXR…
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2023 50/90 idea number 29 becomes finished song number 24, which is also the 10th song both started and finished within the month of August, which means I have completed an album in a month under RPM Challenge rules. Groovy. Too bad the song…
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2023 50/90 idea number 35 is finished song number 23. I like this one. I am not sure why, specifically. Could it be the melody? That would be a rarity for me. All guitar tracks are Les Paul Standard through a Fender Bassbreaker 15 (direct…
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2023 50/90 idea number 31 becomes finished song number 22. Finally, a song that I actually like. I mean, I legitimately like this one. Has there ever been a hit single in 7/8 time? Could this be the first? All guitar tracks are a Les…
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2023 50/90 Challenge idea number 37 becomes finished song number 21. I picked up the guitar and recorded the first things that popped into my head and this song is what happened. It's super simple and there isn't a whole lot here, but I like…
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2023 50/90 song idea number 36 becomes finished song number 20 (I think). This is another in a long line of attempts to make a legitimate 70's head banger in 3/4 time. It's a pretty decent shot, I think. The real interesting thing for me…
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2023 50/90 idea number four becomes finished song number 19. I kinda like this one. It has a nice groove. The individual sections are boring and so is the song as a whole, but somehow I don't hate it. I just mildly dislike it. Rhythm…
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2023 50/90 idea number seven is finished song number 18. This one would have been okay if the vocal takes weren't so bad, and if the rhythm guitar tone was a little more lively and less muddy and dull. The vocal harmony is kinda weird too…
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