The Record Every Month Challenge to record one song each month for the whole year isn't stressful enough, so I upped the ante to be record a single every month. An A Side and a B Side. This song is the A Side for April. I like it... I don't…

I had a thought about recording an EP entirely on my iPad and having that be my Record Every Month project for April. I ended up with four songs, but I am only going to be finishing two on time. I guess that counts as my record a single every…

The second of two songs written and recorded for the March 2023 Record Every Month Challenge. My mini challenge within the main challenge is to record a single. This would be the B side. I am not going to say I don't like the song, because…

Written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in March 2023. I'm thinking of trying to record a single each month this year. This would be the A side for March. The idea started bubbling up in my head at the tail end of the RPM…

I worked on 15 songs for this year's RPM Challenge. One was dropped before I wrote lyrics for it. One was dropped after it was mixed. This one and one other were dropped after tracking was finished but before they were mixed. I didn't like…

This song features some of the worst performances I've ever allowed to make it online. Oh well. The vocals are terrible. The leads are handcuffed (my fingers hurt so much while recording this that I couldn't get them to do anything). The rhythm…

There is a noticeable lack of weird time signatures in this year's RPM Challenge. I think this is the only 7/8 song. There are a couple of 6/8 but that's nothing too unusual. There is an 11/8 which almost made my brain explode, but that's another…

I now have 10 songs mixed for this year's RPM Challenge. There's still more to do, but if I wanted to I could stop right now and call it a win. Allow me to pat myself on the back for a second or two. I like this one. I think. I would like…

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…