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?

It's a good thing these are just demos and not a real attempt at doing anything... real. So the vocals... the clipping... the distortion. No excuse. It's spoiled the entire song for me. This is the second of two songs that I recorded in…

Yes, yes I know. The guitar melody sounds a lot like the jazz standard "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." I understand and I'm sorry, but it's so rare that I come up with an instrumental melody that I just have to run with it when I get one. The vocals…

First off, the inspiration for the lyric was my MacBook Pro being unable to connect to my wireless mouse. I kid you not, that's where it started. It sort of evolved into a fictional account of one of my customer's network about to crash. I…

I had a neat idea for a riff but I was busy doing other things and couldn't record it for future reference. When I did get a chance to sit down with a guitar later that night I couldn't quite remember it. I came up with something that was in…

The twist for the June music project is that everything is recorded and mixed on an iOS device (all but two on an iPad) and then remixed on the full Mac version of GarageBand. This is the first Mac mix. I worked the riffs to this one out…

I have loved this song for eons. Any time I've found myself in a cover band I've tried to get it into the set list but I have never once succeeded. I've never actually recorded a cover before. Prior to buying a Strat I had no desire to, but…

This is a rewrite of an RPM/FAWM song from February. I sped it up and added some muscle while changing up the vocal and lyrics. I like it much better now. (The old version is on my alonetone somewhere. It's called Forced)

Yup, @floridaman again. This time a couple stole money for crack and told the cops they were kidnapped and forced to steal the money. No way anyone will see through that story, eh? This mix feels mushy. It's made worse by the tons of sauce…

The lyrics aren't from @floridaman this time. They are from @floridawoman. It's a story about a gal who disliked her neighbor, so she had her house bulldozed. Nice This was the last March/April song to be have the tracking finished. There…

This is from March but it was a bit of an after thought. I had planned on the 10th song being something else (it eventually made it into the April list) but I noodled this together on my iPad one night. I also recorded the rhythm guitars on…

There is a reason why this is the last of the 10 songs from April to be finished. It's kind of a sloppy mess of a clunker. The main riff was actually written during March but I didn't get anywhere with it. I revived it in April and... well…

This was the last of the April songs to be worked on. The riff in the chorus was actually written during RPM in February but I never got a chance to finish it. It was on also on the list for March but it never got off the ground. Finally in…