If I had more of a pool of songs to chose from this year, then this puppy would be going straight to the dropped list. Can you say, "padding?" I feel like I could cut 75% out of this song. I like the chorus and I like the strummy guitar solos…

This is the eighth song for this year's RPM Challenge and it nearly broke me. I had this riff in mind. It was in 6/4 time. Something dark and evil possessed me as I was working out the bass line in GarageBand and I was infernally inspired…

Seven songs down for the RPM Challenge. It's February 27th and I have so much more to get through. I liked this one as I was putting it together. The mood is very much fitting my frame of mind these days. I don't know if I like it as much…

Six songs down for the 2023 RPM Challenge. Jeff Beck died and I was gutted. It's hard to lose your heroes, but it's also odd to feel so emotional about the loss of someone you've never met. Life is weird, right? I did not want to write…

Five songs down. Somewhere between five and nine to go. This one was fun to play. Both the rhythm guitar parts and the solos were just fun. I don't think anything is particularly good, I just enjoyed myself. That was a nice feeling. The…

Four songs complete for the 2023 RPM Challenge and I think this one might be the winner. I have it penciled in for track one. I came up with the opening (Asus2 -> Cmaj7) while testing the signal path into GarageBand when I was setting up…

I like this one. I don't like much from this year's project, but this one works for me. I don't know if it's got "track 1" vibes or not. It's too slow and somber (I think I found my album title). Hopefully something with a little more pep…

Two songs down for the 2023 RPM Challenge. This one is okay. Sort of like everything this year, it's just sort of okay, sort of. Two amps on the rhythm guitars. I had that set up for the first three songs but one of the amps started making…

The first song for the 2023 RPM Challenge is complete! This month has been incredibly rough for me. We lost my mother on February 5th after a horrible nine days in hospice after a horrible eight months in a dementia ward in a nursing home after…

September 2022 crap song #4 out of 4. I'm done and I'm going to bed. Good night. The guitars are all my Les Paul Standard 50s. The leads used a Deluxe Reverb and the rhythm used a direct input amp sim in GarageBand because my wife was working…

Crap #3 of 4 that will be finished off and uploaded tonight. I did the rhythm guitar tracks for this twice because the chorus was so atrocious that I had to rewrite it on the fly. It's better now, but that's pretty much all this pig has going…

The second of four bad songs written and recorded in September 2022. The verses might be okay. The chorus is cheesy. It's not as bad as I thought it would be, but it's still pretty lame. The guitars are all Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s and…

Finally, I have something to submit for RPM's Record Every Month. Sure, it's crap but I've had a tough few months. I had stomach surgery almost five months ago and I couldn't play for the first month as I recovered. Then when I started slowly…

UPDATE: I remixed this. I replaced the plate reverbs with rooms. Another song from the 2022 RPM Challenge, re-recorded for Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven. Not a lot different between this and the original. The rhythm guitar is still sloppy…

UPDATE: I remixed this. I replaced the plate reverbs with rooms. I don't know if it's better or not. I told myself that the Quarantine Tunes thing was going to end after volume six. Then I picked songs (mostly from the last couple of RPM…

2022 RPM Challenge song #20 of 20! The fact that this is song number 20 is part of the story behind it. I was sitting on 19 and feeling pretty wiped out. I wanted to hit 20 just to say I had two RPM Challenge albums but nothing was coming…

2022 RPM Challenge song number 19. Go to the head of the class, dude. I said that song #18 was the best song of the bunch but now here is song #19 taking the title and squashing 18 like the proverbial grape. In other words, I really like…

2022 RPM Challenge song number 18. I still have two more songs to mix but as of right now this is hands down my favorite of the batch (spoiler alert, I think I might be saying that about the two songs that are left as well). Usually when I…

2022 RPM Challenge song number 17. Now we're talking. I like this one a lot. My self criticism are valid, the melody in the verse is too la di da sing songy, and I shouldn't have used a Big Muff fuzz pedal on the rhythm tracks (too much bass…

2022 RPM Challenge song number 16. This one is all right. I'm not quite ready to say it's a lock for making the final album but it's close. If nothing else, the rhythm guitar part is fun to play and the vocals are nice and shouty. I used…