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Archive for January, 2010
The night before RPM starts
Jan 31st
Well, it’s 31st of January, from midnight RPM Challenge entrants can start to record their album. I had planned on have some material written before now. Aside from the couple of lyrics I wrote recently (published in this blog), I don’t really have anything.
I’m not too sure if I’ll bring a few songs out of the closet from my old lyric books to get my started. I think I might just do a couple of writing exercises tomorrow -morning, lunch and ride home to see if I can come up with something to record tomorrow night.
Althought I do want the first track on the album to be an instrumental… so that might make it a bit easier 
Tonight I set up my ‘studio’ area, got my microphones out, guitars arranged, connected up my sound card and my drum pads and tested everything to make sure it works.
There is a slight hum in my monitors (speakers) but aside from that everything else is ready to Rock’n'Roll!
RPM Challenge
Jan 18th
OK, in my previous post I had a throw away line in regards to my music “write and record an album in February”. Well the only way to get things done (like recording a CD), is to just do it (should I give Nike a trademark to that statement?)
What I was referring to is the The RPM Challenge. The challenge is really simple:
Record an album in 28 days, just because you can.
This page goes in to more depth, such all no previously released material can be used and all recording must be done in February. They do encourage you to write all your songs during February. That part I won’t be following 100% (as it’s only encouragement), cause I know with that time won’t permit. I have a few lyrics which I already have which are either WIP or very close to Finished.
So I’ve signed up – this is me.
So from February 1 expect frequent updates here (and probably on my twitter). I’ll post my WIP recordings and Final versions of songs on here and just the final versions of my songs on RPM’s Site.
There we go! It’s in writing