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                                        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:11:51 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2022-01-13T14:11:51+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>musical idiot</artist>
                                    <title>There's Not Much To This</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[The final RPM Challenge, Record Every Month Challenge thing is done. March through January, with the actual RPM happening in February. Success, even though I forgot to actually submit a bunch of them.
For the second time I seem to have written the same song twice. The other one will be coming at some point in the near future. I still have to mix it. Both songs have the same changes in the chorus. Emin7 -> Bmin7 -> A7. Why do I keep doing that?
This was written on the guitar… which might explain the same thing over and over again thing… were they all started on guitar? Could be. I initially thought the other song was going to be the better of the two, but this one wins in the end. It might be due to the actual honest to goodness counter melody in the second chorus. Woah!
The rhythm guitars were my Gibson SG. I played my new Les Paul exclusively for eight whole months before breaking out the SG to record this tune. The lead was the new Les Paul Standard. The amp on all of the guitar tracks is a Fender Bassbreaker 15. Pedals on the rhythm parts were an Earthquaker Devices The Depths and a Ryra The Klone. The lead only used a Fuzz Face.
Verse 1
There’s not much to this
There’s not much to miss
Same situation
No contemplation
Verse 2
No chance we’ll make it
So let’s just fake it
false information
no explaination
Chorus
Its a thought that I have
while I’m wasting time
Its a question I ask
while I wait in line
There’s a place in my dreams
I don’t understand
Always out of my reach
never goes as planned
Chorus counter melody
Just goes to show you
Not up for review
I’d demonstrate it
but I won’t commit]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The final RPM Challenge, Record Every Month Challenge thing is done. March through January, with the actual RPM happening in February. Success, even though I forgot to actually submit a bunch of them.
For the second time I seem to have written the same song twice. The other one will be coming at some point in the near future. I still have to mix it. Both songs have the same changes in the chorus. Emin7 -> Bmin7 -> A7. Why do I keep doing that?
This was written on the guitar… which might explain the same thing over and over again thing… were they all started on guitar? Could be. I initially thought the other song was going to be the better of the two, but this one wins in the end. It might be due to the actual honest to goodness counter melody in the second chorus. Woah!
The rhythm guitars were my Gibson SG. I played my new Les Paul exclusively for eight whole months before breaking out the SG to record this tune. The lead was the new Les Paul Standard. The amp on all of the guitar tracks is a Fender Bassbreaker 15. Pedals on the rhythm parts were an Earthquaker Devices The Depths and a Ryra The Klone. The lead only used a Fuzz Face.
Verse 1
There’s not much to this
There’s not much to miss
Same situation
No contemplation
Verse 2
No chance we’ll make it
So let’s just fake it
false information
no explaination
Chorus
Its a thought that I have
while I’m wasting time
Its a question I ask
while I wait in line
There’s a place in my dreams
I don’t understand
Always out of my reach
never goes as planned
Chorus counter melody
Just goes to show you
Not up for review
I’d demonstrate it
but I won’t commit]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:42:45 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-12-18T16:42:45+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>musical idiot</artist>
                                    <title>Cold Comfort</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[My Record Every Month song for December. I don’t hate this, which is lucky because it’s the only new song I’ve worked on this month.
There are some bad edits and some sloppy playing. The vocals are pretty lack luster. The bass might be a little too low in the mix. I got a little goofy with the delay plug-in at the end. I guess what I am trying to say is that this one isn’t too bad.
The rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Standard into a Ryra the Klone into a Fender Bassbreaker 15 and I think it’s safe to say I am in love with this sound. Leads are the same guitar and amp and the signal chain is a Mooer e-Lady flanger into the Ryra into a Keeley D&M Drive (just the Mick side) into the same amp.
Chorus
Cold comfort
so fitting
No comment
clear thinking
Now isn’t the time
That feeling
of breaking
low ceiling
risk taking
Verse 1
it tries to tear me down
there’s one in every crowd
wait till it comes around again
all the same
Verse 2
I cannot let it go
just need to let you know
I’ll never feel so low to you
tell it true
Outro
Cold comfort comes to you
coming to you]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[My Record Every Month song for December. I don’t hate this, which is lucky because it’s the only new song I’ve worked on this month.
There are some bad edits and some sloppy playing. The vocals are pretty lack luster. The bass might be a little too low in the mix. I got a little goofy with the delay plug-in at the end. I guess what I am trying to say is that this one isn’t too bad.
The rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Standard into a Ryra the Klone into a Fender Bassbreaker 15 and I think it’s safe to say I am in love with this sound. Leads are the same guitar and amp and the signal chain is a Mooer e-Lady flanger into the Ryra into a Keeley D&M Drive (just the Mick side) into the same amp.
Chorus
Cold comfort
so fitting
No comment
clear thinking
Now isn’t the time
That feeling
of breaking
low ceiling
risk taking
Verse 1
it tries to tear me down
there’s one in every crowd
wait till it comes around again
all the same
Verse 2
I cannot let it go
just need to let you know
I’ll never feel so low to you
tell it true
Outro
Cold comfort comes to you
coming to you]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 01:11:58 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-11-01T01:11:58+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>musical idiot</artist>
                                    <title>News to Me</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Written for the RPM Challenge’s Record Every Month thing back in June and left unfinished and forgotten about until earlier today. I had some vocals to record and wanted something to use to warm up and I found this just waiting for me and finished it. I kinda wish I’d paid closer attention to it back in June. I kinda like it. that bridge thing in the middle has to go, hence me putting 500 pounds of sauce all over it, but otherwise I kinda dig it.
The guitars are all my Les Paul Standard 50’s. The rhythm used an MXR Uni-Vibe into a Ryra The Klone into a Vox AC15. The lead for most of the song was a Dunlop Crybaby into the Ryra into a Keeley D&M Drive into a Vox MV50 Clean. The lead at the very end was a cheap little Joyo Vintage Phase into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into the Ryra again into the MV50.
Chorus
As though the sun is born of the ocean
and then it goes to rest in the land
Verse 1
Try to stay on target
try to hold the line
try to never regret
that there were never answers
Verse 2 and 3
There’s a simple answer
that’s too much for me
Its the great adventure
that I will never get to see
Bridge
News to me]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Written for the RPM Challenge’s Record Every Month thing back in June and left unfinished and forgotten about until earlier today. I had some vocals to record and wanted something to use to warm up and I found this just waiting for me and finished it. I kinda wish I’d paid closer attention to it back in June. I kinda like it. that bridge thing in the middle has to go, hence me putting 500 pounds of sauce all over it, but otherwise I kinda dig it.
The guitars are all my Les Paul Standard 50’s. The rhythm used an MXR Uni-Vibe into a Ryra The Klone into a Vox AC15. The lead for most of the song was a Dunlop Crybaby into the Ryra into a Keeley D&M Drive into a Vox MV50 Clean. The lead at the very end was a cheap little Joyo Vintage Phase into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into the Ryra again into the MV50.
Chorus
As though the sun is born of the ocean
and then it goes to rest in the land
Verse 1
Try to stay on target
try to hold the line
try to never regret
that there were never answers
Verse 2 and 3
There’s a simple answer
that’s too much for me
Its the great adventure
that I will never get to see
Bridge
News to me]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2021 03:56:41 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-10-25T03:56:41+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>musical idiot</artist>
                                    <title>On Our Own</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[I have been forgetting to submit songs to the RPM Challenge website’s Record Every Month challenge for a while now, but I have been actually getting the work done and have not yet missed a month. This is October’s submission.
The little guitar harmonic things in the verse sections was originally going to be an electric piano, but I thought this was cooler. I think I made the right choice. Arrangement wise, I think the 16 measure thing in the middle is completely out of place, especially so close to the totally unrelated to the rest of the song ending that I tacked on. I like the verses, I like the chorus, I like the ending. I don’t like that bridge thingie.
The rhythm guitar is a Les Paul Standard 50s into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Ryra The Klone into a Fender Bassbreaker 15. Lead guitars is the same guitar into the same Ryra The Klone into a Keeley D&M Drive into a Washburn AX:9 delay that I found in a box in the cellar and haven’t used since 2005 into the same amp.
Chorus
Let me tell you something
of the things we’ve been through
Let me show you how it could be if we tried
Verse 1
And now we know
This is the way it should be
No time to explain it
Just have to agree
Verse 2 & 3
And so it goes
There’s nothing else left to do
No point in defending
Just try to get through
Bridge
Just want to see it end
Don’t ask me to pretend
Just want to find myself a home
On our own
Outro
On our own
all alone
On our own
Going home]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[I have been forgetting to submit songs to the RPM Challenge website’s Record Every Month challenge for a while now, but I have been actually getting the work done and have not yet missed a month. This is October’s submission.
The little guitar harmonic things in the verse sections was originally going to be an electric piano, but I thought this was cooler. I think I made the right choice. Arrangement wise, I think the 16 measure thing in the middle is completely out of place, especially so close to the totally unrelated to the rest of the song ending that I tacked on. I like the verses, I like the chorus, I like the ending. I don’t like that bridge thingie.
The rhythm guitar is a Les Paul Standard 50s into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Ryra The Klone into a Fender Bassbreaker 15. Lead guitars is the same guitar into the same Ryra The Klone into a Keeley D&M Drive into a Washburn AX:9 delay that I found in a box in the cellar and haven’t used since 2005 into the same amp.
Chorus
Let me tell you something
of the things we’ve been through
Let me show you how it could be if we tried
Verse 1
And now we know
This is the way it should be
No time to explain it
Just have to agree
Verse 2 & 3
And so it goes
There’s nothing else left to do
No point in defending
Just try to get through
Bridge
Just want to see it end
Don’t ask me to pretend
Just want to find myself a home
On our own
Outro
On our own
all alone
On our own
Going home]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:24:26 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-06-28T20:24:26+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>musical idiot</artist>
                                    <title>This is the Trick</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[You know, 50/90 starts in a week. I probably should not be wasting new song ideas now when I could wait a week and have them count toward the fifty songs. Oh well.
Written on Saturday. Recorded on Saturday and Sunday. Mixed before work on Monday. A nice little weekend song.
I mixed this with Apple AirPod Pros that don’t fit all that well so if you listen to this and the bass blows your head off I apologize.
I used my Les Paul Standard and my Vox AC15 for all of the guitar tracks. The rhythm used a Dunlop Cry Baby wah (already regretting that choice, the wah seems lame here) and a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker. I’m trying to love that pedal. I want to. I just don’t. Every now and then I force the issue and this song is an example. I used the tremolo on the amp in a few spots. I turned it on for the first verse, off for the bridge between verses, then back on with the depth and speed turned up a smidge for the second verse. I turned it up a bit more for the solo at the end. I like how the tremolo on the two rhythm tracks is out of sync. It makes it feel like a panning trick. I also did something different for the lead. I used two low gain overdrive pedals with the volumes cranked and the drives set low. The Blooze Maker was first with the drive at around noon, then the Ryra the Klone was next with the drive barely on at all. I then used the pick ups switch and the volume knobs on the guitar to change the tone a smidge for the different solos. It was interesting. I might do more of that in the future.
chorus
This is the trick we’re playing
the price is not worth paying
we pulled the rug from under
left with the sound of thunder
Verse 1
Feel it the sense of wonder
Know it will not come true
Fooled you they’ve got your number
They knew you through and through
Verse 2
Its like you see the future
as if you knew the drill
I think this could be cooler
I know it never will
Bridge
The key to living
is do not care
its no use giving
what you don’t have]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[You know, 50/90 starts in a week. I probably should not be wasting new song ideas now when I could wait a week and have them count toward the fifty songs. Oh well.
Written on Saturday. Recorded on Saturday and Sunday. Mixed before work on Monday. A nice little weekend song.
I mixed this with Apple AirPod Pros that don’t fit all that well so if you listen to this and the bass blows your head off I apologize.
I used my Les Paul Standard and my Vox AC15 for all of the guitar tracks. The rhythm used a Dunlop Cry Baby wah (already regretting that choice, the wah seems lame here) and a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker. I’m trying to love that pedal. I want to. I just don’t. Every now and then I force the issue and this song is an example. I used the tremolo on the amp in a few spots. I turned it on for the first verse, off for the bridge between verses, then back on with the depth and speed turned up a smidge for the second verse. I turned it up a bit more for the solo at the end. I like how the tremolo on the two rhythm tracks is out of sync. It makes it feel like a panning trick. I also did something different for the lead. I used two low gain overdrive pedals with the volumes cranked and the drives set low. The Blooze Maker was first with the drive at around noon, then the Ryra the Klone was next with the drive barely on at all. I then used the pick ups switch and the volume knobs on the guitar to change the tone a smidge for the different solos. It was interesting. I might do more of that in the future.
chorus
This is the trick we’re playing
the price is not worth paying
we pulled the rug from under
left with the sound of thunder
Verse 1
Feel it the sense of wonder
Know it will not come true
Fooled you they’ve got your number
They knew you through and through
Verse 2
Its like you see the future
as if you knew the drill
I think this could be cooler
I know it never will
Bridge
The key to living
is do not care
its no use giving
what you don’t have]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 04:16:52 +0200</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-06-28T04:16:52+02:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>musical idiot</artist>
                                    <title>No Chance for Me (Part 2)</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This is the result of a stunning lack of rehearsing.
I write these little songs as I am recording them and as a result there is no actual rehearsing of anything involved. I do it all on the spot. I really enjoy that process but sometimes it means that an idea I work on doesn’t stick with me and I end up rewriting the same idea at some future point. I accept that this is a thing that I do, but usually it doesn’t happen on the same day.
I had been working on a song for the RPM Challenge’s Record Every Month challenge. I wrote the music and recorded the rhythm guitars and all was well. A few days later I wrote the melody and the lyrics, and a day or so after that I recorded the vocals. Later that day I was planning on adding the lead guitar, but as a warm up I decided I would start a new song and it would be based on the first thing that popped into my head when I plugged in the guitar.
I did not realize that the first thing that came into my head was actually the chorus from the song I had sung that morning, just slowed down 30-40 beats per minute. Oops. It had started to dawn on me before I finished the new song’s structure but it wasn’t until I opened up that morning’s song to add the leads and actually listened to the chorus that I realized exactly how stupid I’d been and I laughed my ass off at my own expense for a while. Dumb ass.
I thought about scrapping the new idea but instead decided it would be part two of the first song. A sequel, if you will. I forced the issue by using one line of lyrics from the first song in the second song. It’s also the title of the song so that sort of made sense.
Now we all know how rare it is for a sequel to be better than the original, but as I sit here typing this out, I am thinking this song is the Empire Strikes Back to part one’s A New Hope. In other words, I think I like this one more.
All of the guitars are my Gibson Les Paul Standard, and all of the guitar tracks are through a Vox AC15 amp. The rhythm guitars used a Ryra The Klone overdrive pedal and a little bit of tremolo from the amp. The leads also used the Ryra along with a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter and a Dunlop Cry Baby Wah.
A
You take a shot at redemption go on
no need to hint at a mention its gone
So take a look past your shoulder and see
it couldn’t feel any colder agree
B
Its a whisper on the wind
You can feel it on your skin
from within
C Section
No chance for me
No chance for me
A2
Its just a twist to the story nowhere
its such a strange allegory take care
If you could sense the deception would you
if you could make an exception will do
B2
Its a chance you have to take
Its a rule you have to break
No mistake
C Section
No chance for me
No chance for me
Outro
Do you agree
can you see
Its down to you
Down to me]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is the result of a stunning lack of rehearsing.
I write these little songs as I am recording them and as a result there is no actual rehearsing of anything involved. I do it all on the spot. I really enjoy that process but sometimes it means that an idea I work on doesn’t stick with me and I end up rewriting the same idea at some future point. I accept that this is a thing that I do, but usually it doesn’t happen on the same day.
I had been working on a song for the RPM Challenge’s Record Every Month challenge. I wrote the music and recorded the rhythm guitars and all was well. A few days later I wrote the melody and the lyrics, and a day or so after that I recorded the vocals. Later that day I was planning on adding the lead guitar, but as a warm up I decided I would start a new song and it would be based on the first thing that popped into my head when I plugged in the guitar.
I did not realize that the first thing that came into my head was actually the chorus from the song I had sung that morning, just slowed down 30-40 beats per minute. Oops. It had started to dawn on me before I finished the new song’s structure but it wasn’t until I opened up that morning’s song to add the leads and actually listened to the chorus that I realized exactly how stupid I’d been and I laughed my ass off at my own expense for a while. Dumb ass.
I thought about scrapping the new idea but instead decided it would be part two of the first song. A sequel, if you will. I forced the issue by using one line of lyrics from the first song in the second song. It’s also the title of the song so that sort of made sense.
Now we all know how rare it is for a sequel to be better than the original, but as I sit here typing this out, I am thinking this song is the Empire Strikes Back to part one’s A New Hope. In other words, I think I like this one more.
All of the guitars are my Gibson Les Paul Standard, and all of the guitar tracks are through a Vox AC15 amp. The rhythm guitars used a Ryra The Klone overdrive pedal and a little bit of tremolo from the amp. The leads also used the Ryra along with a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter and a Dunlop Cry Baby Wah.
A
You take a shot at redemption go on
no need to hint at a mention its gone
So take a look past your shoulder and see
it couldn’t feel any colder agree
B
Its a whisper on the wind
You can feel it on your skin
from within
C Section
No chance for me
No chance for me
A2
Its just a twist to the story nowhere
its such a strange allegory take care
If you could sense the deception would you
if you could make an exception will do
B2
Its a chance you have to take
Its a rule you have to break
No mistake
C Section
No chance for me
No chance for me
Outro
Do you agree
can you see
Its down to you
Down to me]]></itunes:summary>
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                                    <artist>musical idiot</artist>
                                    <title>No Chance for Me (Part 1)</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[The RPM Challenge site’s Record Every Month Challenge has an entry for June. This one started out in May but it was just the chords from the chorus in the little music memo file on my iPhone. It didn’t actually become a song until June. It’s not much of a song, of course. That little Emin-Amin thing became the chorus and the verse and pretty much everything.
The title says part one because I kinda wrote this same song twice without really realizing it. Possibly more to come on that later, assuming I can finish the other part before the end of the month.
All guitar parts are a Gibson Les Paul Standard 50’s through a Vox AC15. Pedals on the rhythm guitar parts are just a Ryra The Klone with a little MXR Uni-Vibe in the bridge. The leads used the Ryra again along with a Wren and Cuff Super Russian, both the fuzz and the boost were on.
Chorus
Of all the times to come apart this is the one for me
Of all the days to come unglued it has to be you see
Verse 1
So you see for me it had to fall apart
you know the way it always seems to go
Pre Chorus
I’ll tell you all about it
Verse 2
Maybe now you’ll know what I’ve been feeling as
the world unmakes and crumbles into dust
Bridge
I’ll give you first hand info
Everything that you need
I’ll share the whole entire thing
Someday you will see
Outro Chorus
No chance for me
No chance for me]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The RPM Challenge site’s Record Every Month Challenge has an entry for June. This one started out in May but it was just the chords from the chorus in the little music memo file on my iPhone. It didn’t actually become a song until June. It’s not much of a song, of course. That little Emin-Amin thing became the chorus and the verse and pretty much everything.
The title says part one because I kinda wrote this same song twice without really realizing it. Possibly more to come on that later, assuming I can finish the other part before the end of the month.
All guitar parts are a Gibson Les Paul Standard 50’s through a Vox AC15. Pedals on the rhythm guitar parts are just a Ryra The Klone with a little MXR Uni-Vibe in the bridge. The leads used the Ryra again along with a Wren and Cuff Super Russian, both the fuzz and the boost were on.
Chorus
Of all the times to come apart this is the one for me
Of all the days to come unglued it has to be you see
Verse 1
So you see for me it had to fall apart
you know the way it always seems to go
Pre Chorus
I’ll tell you all about it
Verse 2
Maybe now you’ll know what I’ve been feeling as
the world unmakes and crumbles into dust
Bridge
I’ll give you first hand info
Everything that you need
I’ll share the whole entire thing
Someday you will see
Outro Chorus
No chance for me
No chance for me]]></itunes:summary>
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