Another song about depression that was sort of inspired by Robin Williams' suicide. It's getting harder and harder to write lyrics for 50/90, but somehow I managed to write a whole bunch today. Topics were repeated. Melodies were repeated as…

Actual, real live percussion. There's a little monkey drum that I bought at a Ren Faire many years ago, and a pair of finger drums I bought at the Moroccan Pavilion at Epcot Center even more many years ago. It's the first time since I had an…

Another simple arrangement that uses dynamics to differentiate between verse/chorus/ect. I really like that gimmick, but I have to force myself not to do it, or I'd do it 100% of the time. The lyrics are about depression and were written the…

This one is a little sloppy. There's a bum note in one of the guitars in the chorus that got copied and pasted a whole bunch of times. I don't have time to go back and fix it though. Lyrically, I haven't mined the endless source of inspiration…

I have no clue what the lyrics are about. I guess maybe it's about not wanting to go to work on a Tuesday morning and looking for some existential way out? I don't know, something stupid like that. The music to this was written while I was…

We have an interesting thing going on in my little neck of New England. I guess we'd have to call it a labor movement, but that's not quite right. When the US economy tanked a few years ago, the CEO of a local supermarket chain did the unthinkable…

A song about greater Boston traffic. Just when you think you have it figured out... urgh. I always sit in 4/4 time. I often need to just break out of it and do something different. This time it's 6/8, but I feel lots of 7/8 and 5/4 are on…

This was the first thing I came up with for 50/90, and it's taken almost a month to finish it. Why might that be? Might it be because I'm not very happy with it? Might be. The lyrics aren't about anything, I just made them up and they fit…

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…