Recorded in the USA, mixed in Canada. I'm on vacation, but I found a little time here in Toronto to mix one more song. The lyrics are about my cat... again. The guitars are all Les Paul. The riff in the hook is using an E7#9 chord... again…

The music here is my first time messing with the Line 6 Pod app for iPad. I'm pleased with it over all (that sah-weeeet Strat neck pick up) but I question why it lacks any form of overdrive pedal. What the hell? Is it an in-app purchase or…

A halfhearted attempt at being schmaltzy. If I had really gone all in the chorus would have been Fmaj7 - Emin7 instead of Fmaj7 - Cmaj7. All of the guitars are my Les Paul. The lyrics were written shortly after learning that the Boston…

Even a redhead like me wants to sound funky every now and then. Nothing else really to note about this one. The guitars are all ES 335. The sun shines on you Let it light the way The road clears for you Let it make your day get…

Not terribly thrilled with the mix, but otherwise this one is okay by me. The idea was to write one riff that repeats for the length of the song and then have the dynamics and the melody take care of differentiating between verses and choruses…

Well this was a waste of time. Also, this will teach me not to listen to too much Pink Floyd while working on an internet songwriting challenge. I thought, it'll be cool! A droning bass violin with little piano and guitar noodles over it…

This one came together really fast. I had spent most of my Sunday forcing two other songs out of my head and I was tired and not feeling all that pleased with the day's work. I figured I'd give it one more shot and went to my binkie. My security…

I liked this one a lot more before I mixed it... I don't know what the lyrics are about. All I know is that my Strat's neck pickup is sah-weeet. The rhythm guitar is the Strat. The lead at the beginning is the Les Paul. The lead at the…

I don't need every song to sound like a power trio, even if I want every song to be arranged for a power trio. Does that make sense? Also, is it the biggest cliche in the universe to write a song about writing a song? All of the guitars…

I've had a very productive three day weekend kicking off 50/90. I have nine songs at various stages of completion. Now the question is, how badly do they suck? I have pretty much fallen in love with the sound of my Strat's neck pickup. Clean…

FAWM's 50/90 starts on July 4th, Independence Day in the USA, and wouldn't you know it New England got hit by the remnants of a hurricane that night. Hurricane Arthur was pretty much just a rain storm by the time it hit us, but it was still song…

A little mini-suite. I had my 10 songs underway for my June album in a month project and like a doofus I threw together an extra song at the last minute, and made it three songs in one. (I then added two more, because I'm dumb). Mostly this…

This is a throw away. I wanted to put 8 bars of acoustic guitar on one of the June songs. When I finished I just opened a new project and threw down the first things that came to me. A vocal with some live and let live lyrics, a ton of reverb…

Talk about over complicating things! This was meant as just a little finger picking noodle. I am hopeless as a finger picker and did this more as an exercise than anything else. It's four tracks of guitar, all with a different picking pattern…

As I was finishing up the March and April music project thingies back in the end of May I acted silly and wrote an extra song. This is that song. Just a dopey 12-bar blues that was really just an excuse to write something on my new Stratocaster…

This song makes 10 for the month of June. I still have my one left over thing from May, and there are two more from June that still need vocals. I kinda want to stop now though. Something about this tune is working for me. I sort of almost…

So lead guitar wise, this was not a good night. Mix wise it is an attempt at not burying the bass guitar. That probably means the bass is super loud. Life goes on though, am i right? I have no real idea what the lyrics are about other than…

I had high hopes for this goofy 12-bar. I don't know why. It doesn't live up to my expectations. The vocals are fuzzy again. I'm mad. It does mark the return of the wah wah pedal. I had half a mind to not use it at all after over using it…

Yesterday I posted a song that was recorded entirely on my iPhone and had ugly distorted vocals that I was embarrassed to share with the interwebs. I said that there was one other song from this month that was also recorded entirely on the iPhone…

When did everything I came up with for June end up in either 3/4 or 6/8? I should pay closer attention, don't you think?