Category: Songwriting

• December 9, 2021

  “Best of 50/90 2021” Album Available on Bandcamp

  This is available as a 12-track album (plus bonus track) or as individual songs.
• October 4, 2021

  “Don’t Touch Me” (#50/90 #music #producer #songwriting #challenge #LogicPro)

  Now that 50/90 is over for this year, I’m going through my tracks to pick out my favorites to bring back into the studio for further mixing/remixing, etc. This one I did in Logic Pro. Don’t Touch Me (Kathy Holmes @ Screamie Birds Studios) Chorus Don’t touch me, don’t touch me I’m just here for […]
• September 1, 2021

  50 Songs in 55 Days (#50/90)

  It’s September 1st – yay! And I completed 50/90 a few days ago, a whole month early, writing 50 songs in only 55 days! I’m so exhausted and completely dry creatively. But I will cull through some of these songs in the future, curating a DJ playlist or two. But maybe I should post one […]
• July 23, 2021

  Goodbye July or “What I Did While Trying to Make Disneyland Dining Reservations”

  This is the story of how I wrote yesterday’s poem and turned it into a song early this morning while trying to make Disneyland dining reservations. The night before last I was awake during the night looking at the calendar on my iPhone trying to make Disneyland dining reservations (which is such a crapshoot these […]
• March 29, 2021

  My First Podcast: Cruise Ship Night Life

  Missing cruise ship night life? Okay, so maybe you’re missing night life of any kind. But cruise ship nightlife is pretty much all the night life I do. Or did. So I created a dance track using a few of the new tracks I created during FAWM, and upload it to YouTube. It was so […]
• February 11, 2021

  FAWM 2021: Day 11, Song #7

  Okay, so I’m definitely ahead of schedule for FAWM (February Album Writing Month) – 14 songs in 28 days. Actually, I’m halfway there! Yes!! And Ableton announced Ableton 11 is dropping on the 23rd so I’d like to finish FAWM before then so I can start playing around. Anyway, track #7 is my version of […]
• January 28, 2021

  Music Playing on an Endless Loop in my Head

  Musicians, tell me, when you’re working on a song, does it play on an endless loop in your head? If so, how do you cope? I asked my Bass playing uncle about that one time and he said there’s nothing to be done. Yikes! Maybe I should skip this music stuff and return to writing […]