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                                        <pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2021 21:52:25 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-05-31T21:52:25+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Take a Moment</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[The third candidate for the May entry in RPM’s Record Every Month challenge. I think I’m going to submit one of the other ones. This song is okay, and I like the chorus a lot, I just don’t think I quite pulled it off. I wrote the melody first and sometimes when I try to do that I throw my whole world out of whack. I think that happened here.
I’ve been using AirPod Pros for mixing over the last week or two and it shows. The bass is off all over the place. Those little suckers just don’t fit my head very well. I keep jamming them deeper into my ears to improve the bass response and after a while it kinda hurts. Maybe I’ll go back to my Bose headphones next month.
All of the guitar parts are my Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s into my Vox AC15. The pedal on the rhythm is a Wampler Plexi Drive Mini. I like that pedal, I’m just having a hard time getting it to play well with others. I think I need to run it at 18 volts instead of nine, and use an amp with more than 15 watts of headroom. The lead parts used a Crybaby wah into a Ryra the Klone into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter.
A
I can tell by the way that you look at me
Not good this time
I can see by the way that you scowl like that
bad times ahead
B
take a minute and think it through
you can tell by the way that I’m confronting you
take a moment to catch your breath
you can sense my feelings know what you have to do
A2
its a feeling I get when you come around
go run and hide
there’s a change in the air when I see you there
I died inside
C
cheap attack
in the black
take it back
through the crack
no escape
no mistake
lucky break
on the take]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The third candidate for the May entry in RPM’s Record Every Month challenge. I think I’m going to submit one of the other ones. This song is okay, and I like the chorus a lot, I just don’t think I quite pulled it off. I wrote the melody first and sometimes when I try to do that I throw my whole world out of whack. I think that happened here.
I’ve been using AirPod Pros for mixing over the last week or two and it shows. The bass is off all over the place. Those little suckers just don’t fit my head very well. I keep jamming them deeper into my ears to improve the bass response and after a while it kinda hurts. Maybe I’ll go back to my Bose headphones next month.
All of the guitar parts are my Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s into my Vox AC15. The pedal on the rhythm is a Wampler Plexi Drive Mini. I like that pedal, I’m just having a hard time getting it to play well with others. I think I need to run it at 18 volts instead of nine, and use an amp with more than 15 watts of headroom. The lead parts used a Crybaby wah into a Ryra the Klone into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter.
A
I can tell by the way that you look at me
Not good this time
I can see by the way that you scowl like that
bad times ahead
B
take a minute and think it through
you can tell by the way that I’m confronting you
take a moment to catch your breath
you can sense my feelings know what you have to do
A2
its a feeling I get when you come around
go run and hide
there’s a change in the air when I see you there
I died inside
C
cheap attack
in the black
take it back
through the crack
no escape
no mistake
lucky break
on the take]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2021 16:42:37 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-05-31T16:42:37+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>No Surprises</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Another song for the RPM Challenge Record Every Month thing. I have three for May but I haven’t decided which one to actually submit. I’m leaning toward this one, but the next one I upload might be a smidge better. We’ll see.
I think the lyrics are about waking up? Maybe?
The guitars are all my shiny new Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s. The amp for all of the guitar tracks is a Vox AC15. The pedals for the rhythm tracks was just a Ryra The Klone. The leads for all but the end were the Ryra and the Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter. The little thing at the end was an MXR Univibe and the Ryra.
A1
Lay awake listening to the darkness
half asleep sensing all the calmness
close your eyes waiting for the sunrise
hold it back hoping that it never comes
B1
Pre dawn moonlight - Always feels right
morning in site - Always so bright
come on morning - tired of waiting
time for waking - get on with it
Chorus
No surprise no say in what comes after
close your eyes and feel as it all shatters
A2
In the sky subtle changes coming
right outside everything is waking
Sense the light before you can see it
brighter sky creeping impercepibly]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Another song for the RPM Challenge Record Every Month thing. I have three for May but I haven’t decided which one to actually submit. I’m leaning toward this one, but the next one I upload might be a smidge better. We’ll see.
I think the lyrics are about waking up? Maybe?
The guitars are all my shiny new Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s. The amp for all of the guitar tracks is a Vox AC15. The pedals for the rhythm tracks was just a Ryra The Klone. The leads for all but the end were the Ryra and the Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter. The little thing at the end was an MXR Univibe and the Ryra.
A1
Lay awake listening to the darkness
half asleep sensing all the calmness
close your eyes waiting for the sunrise
hold it back hoping that it never comes
B1
Pre dawn moonlight - Always feels right
morning in site - Always so bright
come on morning - tired of waiting
time for waking - get on with it
Chorus
No surprise no say in what comes after
close your eyes and feel as it all shatters
A2
In the sky subtle changes coming
right outside everything is waking
Sense the light before you can see it
brighter sky creeping impercepibly]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2021 06:42:13 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-05-29T06:42:13+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>I Can’t Decide What to Do Next</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[It’s 12:30 am on a Saturday morning. I’m at my parents’ house helping take care of my mother while my father is in the hospital. She had a colossally shitty night health wise but everything is okay now. She’s asleep but I am a little shell shocked and afraid to close my eyes for fear of something else going wrong so I figured I’d take a few minutes to mix a tune for the RPM Record Every Month thingie. I’m using Apple AirPods Pro with the transparency setting on so that I can still hear anything going on with my mother, but that means that the mix is probably a mess because these things aren’t terribly accurate in the low end. Oh well.
But enough about me, how are you doing?
I wanted this one to have sections that were sort of out of time. It works in the beginning, but when it happens again in the middle of the song it sounds awkward instead of cool. Oh well.
This is noteworthy, gear wise, in that it’s the first song recorded entirely with my brand spanking new Gibson Les Paul Standard 50’s. I am over the moon for this sucker and yet for some reason I loaded up the first part of the song with 100 tons of soupy effects. Moron. Anyway, all of the guitar tracks are the Les Paul Standard through a Vox AC15. The pedals on the rhythm are a Ryra The Klone with a little MXR Uni-Vibe in the middle. The lead used the Ryra and a Chicago Stompworks Mr Vermin.
Chorus
I can’t decide what to do next
Can’t seem to hide or redirect
just died inside to no effect
I can’t decide what to do next
Verse 1
One final feeling
and then its over
what is believing
that’s how it goes
Continue breathing
as long as you can
What sense is being
nobody knows
Verse 2
I sense the ending
its coming for me
can’t help offending
that’s how it goes
It keeps extending
as far as you see
I’m just pretending
but does it show]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[It’s 12:30 am on a Saturday morning. I’m at my parents’ house helping take care of my mother while my father is in the hospital. She had a colossally shitty night health wise but everything is okay now. She’s asleep but I am a little shell shocked and afraid to close my eyes for fear of something else going wrong so I figured I’d take a few minutes to mix a tune for the RPM Record Every Month thingie. I’m using Apple AirPods Pro with the transparency setting on so that I can still hear anything going on with my mother, but that means that the mix is probably a mess because these things aren’t terribly accurate in the low end. Oh well.
But enough about me, how are you doing?
I wanted this one to have sections that were sort of out of time. It works in the beginning, but when it happens again in the middle of the song it sounds awkward instead of cool. Oh well.
This is noteworthy, gear wise, in that it’s the first song recorded entirely with my brand spanking new Gibson Les Paul Standard 50’s. I am over the moon for this sucker and yet for some reason I loaded up the first part of the song with 100 tons of soupy effects. Moron. Anyway, all of the guitar tracks are the Les Paul Standard through a Vox AC15. The pedals on the rhythm are a Ryra The Klone with a little MXR Uni-Vibe in the middle. The lead used the Ryra and a Chicago Stompworks Mr Vermin.
Chorus
I can’t decide what to do next
Can’t seem to hide or redirect
just died inside to no effect
I can’t decide what to do next
Verse 1
One final feeling
and then its over
what is believing
that’s how it goes
Continue breathing
as long as you can
What sense is being
nobody knows
Verse 2
I sense the ending
its coming for me
can’t help offending
that’s how it goes
It keeps extending
as far as you see
I’m just pretending
but does it show]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2021 20:34:06 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-05-22T20:34:06+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Slipping Away Again</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[I think I know what I need to do to make this a good song. I need a competent singer, a competent guitar player, a competent bass player who is actually a human, a competent drummer who is also actually a human, a competent lyricist, a competent song writer, a competent arranger, a competent audio engineer, and a competent producer.
That’s all I need to fix this one.
Rhythm guitars are my Les Paul Custom into a Fender Bassbreaker 18/30 on the 30 watt channel with an attenuator that let me crank the volume. The lead guitar is the same setup with the addition of a Ryra The Klone and a Wren and Cuff Super Russian which all combine to make this over compressed garbage.
Chorus
night falls hear it call
you could know it all
night falls hear it call
to you to you to you
Verse 1
slipping away again
no telling where or when
no rational defense
it doesn’t quite make sense to you
Verse 2
you had it figured out
know what it’s all about
they put one over you
nothing you say or do is true]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[I think I know what I need to do to make this a good song. I need a competent singer, a competent guitar player, a competent bass player who is actually a human, a competent drummer who is also actually a human, a competent lyricist, a competent song writer, a competent arranger, a competent audio engineer, and a competent producer.
That’s all I need to fix this one.
Rhythm guitars are my Les Paul Custom into a Fender Bassbreaker 18/30 on the 30 watt channel with an attenuator that let me crank the volume. The lead guitar is the same setup with the addition of a Ryra The Klone and a Wren and Cuff Super Russian which all combine to make this over compressed garbage.
Chorus
night falls hear it call
you could know it all
night falls hear it call
to you to you to you
Verse 1
slipping away again
no telling where or when
no rational defense
it doesn’t quite make sense to you
Verse 2
you had it figured out
know what it’s all about
they put one over you
nothing you say or do is true]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2021 17:20:16 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-05-22T17:20:16+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>A Smidge Too Much</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Another stinker left over from the Record Every Month Challenge in March, though maybe not quite as awful as I initially thought… though still pretty crappy.
Can you dig that there’s a rotary speaker on the bass in the intro? There’s a first for everything, I guess.
The rhythm guitars are my Les Paul Custom into a Ryra The Klone and a Wampler Plexi Drive Mini into the 18 watt channel of a Fender Bassbreaker 18/30. The leads are the same guitar and amp, though the amp is on the 30 watt channel with an attenuator. For pedals, it’s just a Chicago Stompworks Mr Vermin.
Chorus
No time to think about it now
wasted a chance to make it right
I would have blown it any how
Just how it goes
Verse 1
You’ve done it now
You’ve done it now
no telling how
you’ve done it now
You’ve gone to far
you’ve gone to far
it’s too bizarre
You’ve gone to far
Verse 2
can’t get away
cant get away
you’re here to stay
can’t get away
you’re staying home
you’re staying home
you’ll never roam
you’re staying home]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Another stinker left over from the Record Every Month Challenge in March, though maybe not quite as awful as I initially thought… though still pretty crappy.
Can you dig that there’s a rotary speaker on the bass in the intro? There’s a first for everything, I guess.
The rhythm guitars are my Les Paul Custom into a Ryra The Klone and a Wampler Plexi Drive Mini into the 18 watt channel of a Fender Bassbreaker 18/30. The leads are the same guitar and amp, though the amp is on the 30 watt channel with an attenuator. For pedals, it’s just a Chicago Stompworks Mr Vermin.
Chorus
No time to think about it now
wasted a chance to make it right
I would have blown it any how
Just how it goes
Verse 1
You’ve done it now
You’ve done it now
no telling how
you’ve done it now
You’ve gone to far
you’ve gone to far
it’s too bizarre
You’ve gone to far
Verse 2
can’t get away
cant get away
you’re here to stay
can’t get away
you’re staying home
you’re staying home
you’ll never roam
you’re staying home]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2021 16:45:49 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-05-22T16:45:49+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Get On With It</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[So this one’s a dog, sorry.
This is a leftover from the RPM Challenge Record Every Month Challenge for March. I wrote and recorded a handful of songs and then submitted the best one. Actually, I only mixed the best one and the rest have been patiently waiting to be mixed and uploaded here so that I can forget about them and never listen to them again because they are all pretty sucky.
I almost like the chorus on this one. Maybe some day I’ll go through all of the crap songs and pick out the few sections that I don’t loathe and stitch them all together into something new. Maybe a 50 hour long epic of suck.
This was so long ago that I don’t remember what I was doing. Let me see… The rhythm guitars were my Les Paul Custom into the Ryra the Klone and the Wampler Plexi Drive Mini into the 18 watt channel of my Fender Bassbreaker 18/30. The leads were the same Les Paul (I’ve got two of them now so I have to start making sure I differentiate) into the same channel of the same amp, but I had an attenuator on it so there are no pedals, just the cranked amp.
Chorus
get on with it (twice)
get right with it (twice)
Verse
feels like it’s never ending
Remember the beginning
its so intimidating
its so humiliating
Verse 2
so try to go on living
just taking what they’re giving
there is no hidden meaning
its only for demeaning]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[So this one’s a dog, sorry.
This is a leftover from the RPM Challenge Record Every Month Challenge for March. I wrote and recorded a handful of songs and then submitted the best one. Actually, I only mixed the best one and the rest have been patiently waiting to be mixed and uploaded here so that I can forget about them and never listen to them again because they are all pretty sucky.
I almost like the chorus on this one. Maybe some day I’ll go through all of the crap songs and pick out the few sections that I don’t loathe and stitch them all together into something new. Maybe a 50 hour long epic of suck.
This was so long ago that I don’t remember what I was doing. Let me see… The rhythm guitars were my Les Paul Custom into the Ryra the Klone and the Wampler Plexi Drive Mini into the 18 watt channel of my Fender Bassbreaker 18/30. The leads were the same Les Paul (I’ve got two of them now so I have to start making sure I differentiate) into the same channel of the same amp, but I had an attenuator on it so there are no pedals, just the cranked amp.
Chorus
get on with it (twice)
get right with it (twice)
Verse
feels like it’s never ending
Remember the beginning
its so intimidating
its so humiliating
Verse 2
so try to go on living
just taking what they’re giving
there is no hidden meaning
its only for demeaning]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 04:02:32 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
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                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Bad Advice</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[The RPM Challenge’s Record Every Month (REM) challenge lives. April has a song. I wrote it and recorded it all in the last week of the month but who cares, it’s done.
For a challenge within the challenge within the challenge, I decided to write the vocal melody first and then write the rest of the song around that. I only worked on two songs this month but they both followed that rule. I’m sort of pleased with it but ask me again in a month or two.
The guitars are all my Gibson SG Standard into a Vox AC15. I’m downsizing the recording nook a smidge. The rhythm guitar tracks used a Dunlop Crybaby wah (the Gary Clark Jr signature. It’s good, but the Joe Bonamassa signature on my big pedal board is better) into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker and a Ryra The Klone. I used the same setup for the lead guitar at the very end of the song (the part over the wah’d rhythm guitars), and the rest of the leads swapped out a Chicago Stompworks Mr Vermin in place of the Blooze Maker.
Chorus
Compromise
in disguise
bad advice
steers you wrong
a grain of salt
by default
to high a cost
You stay strong
Verse 1
I’ll always tell you just what I think
I will be straight about everything
Sometimes the answer isn’t the thing you want to hear
The right direction isn’t always clear
Verse 2
It does not matter what you want
Could be the best move is to stop
Don’t take advice from someone who cannot see both
sides
Don’t take direction from someone who’s gone blind
Verse 3
I’ll always tell you just what I think
I will be straight about everything
Don’t take advice from someone who cannot see both
sides
Don’t take direction from someone who’s gone blind]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The RPM Challenge’s Record Every Month (REM) challenge lives. April has a song. I wrote it and recorded it all in the last week of the month but who cares, it’s done.
For a challenge within the challenge within the challenge, I decided to write the vocal melody first and then write the rest of the song around that. I only worked on two songs this month but they both followed that rule. I’m sort of pleased with it but ask me again in a month or two.
The guitars are all my Gibson SG Standard into a Vox AC15. I’m downsizing the recording nook a smidge. The rhythm guitar tracks used a Dunlop Crybaby wah (the Gary Clark Jr signature. It’s good, but the Joe Bonamassa signature on my big pedal board is better) into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker and a Ryra The Klone. I used the same setup for the lead guitar at the very end of the song (the part over the wah’d rhythm guitars), and the rest of the leads swapped out a Chicago Stompworks Mr Vermin in place of the Blooze Maker.
Chorus
Compromise
in disguise
bad advice
steers you wrong
a grain of salt
by default
to high a cost
You stay strong
Verse 1
I’ll always tell you just what I think
I will be straight about everything
Sometimes the answer isn’t the thing you want to hear
The right direction isn’t always clear
Verse 2
It does not matter what you want
Could be the best move is to stop
Don’t take advice from someone who cannot see both
sides
Don’t take direction from someone who’s gone blind
Verse 3
I’ll always tell you just what I think
I will be straight about everything
Don’t take advice from someone who cannot see both
sides
Don’t take direction from someone who’s gone blind]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 03:11:58 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-04-01T03:11:58+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Who Gets a Say</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[The good folks at the RPM Challenge came up with a year round game for us to play. Record Every Month. One song each month. I’m game, but I don’t think I’ll stick to just one. I was trying to get 10 done in March 2021 but here I am on the 31st posting song #1. I have three more ready to mix. That’ll do.
Gear wise I’m playing around again. I brought back my Fender Bassbreaker 18/30 amp which is miles too loud to play at home. I bypassed the internal speakers in favor of a little 1x12 cabinet. That lets me put an attenuator into the speaker path and crank the amp without blowing the roof off of my house.
All of the guitar parts are my Gibson Les Paul Custom. The rhythm used a crybaby wah and the 18/30 on the 30 watt channel with a Carl’s Custom Guitars Speaker Soak taming the volume.  The leads are the same setup with a Chicago Stompworks Mr Vermin and a Ryra The Klone.
Chorus
I try to do what’s right
Stepping in to the light
Verse 1
intention
progression
confession
detention
no matter
the trouble
disaster
awaits you
Verse 2
impressive
dismissive
aggressive
obsessive
It’s simple
its willful
its skillful
a symbol
Bridge (twice)
who gets to name the answer
who gets a say at all]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The good folks at the RPM Challenge came up with a year round game for us to play. Record Every Month. One song each month. I’m game, but I don’t think I’ll stick to just one. I was trying to get 10 done in March 2021 but here I am on the 31st posting song #1. I have three more ready to mix. That’ll do.
Gear wise I’m playing around again. I brought back my Fender Bassbreaker 18/30 amp which is miles too loud to play at home. I bypassed the internal speakers in favor of a little 1x12 cabinet. That lets me put an attenuator into the speaker path and crank the amp without blowing the roof off of my house.
All of the guitar parts are my Gibson Les Paul Custom. The rhythm used a crybaby wah and the 18/30 on the 30 watt channel with a Carl’s Custom Guitars Speaker Soak taming the volume.  The leads are the same setup with a Chicago Stompworks Mr Vermin and a Ryra The Klone.
Chorus
I try to do what’s right
Stepping in to the light
Verse 1
intention
progression
confession
detention
no matter
the trouble
disaster
awaits you
Verse 2
impressive
dismissive
aggressive
obsessive
It’s simple
its willful
its skillful
a symbol
Bridge (twice)
who gets to name the answer
who gets a say at all]]></itunes:summary>
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