The RPM Challenge

Ok, after posting my last post, and thinking about it further, I think I will attempt to do the RPM Challenge this year, because, well... why not!?

The goal for The RPM Challenge is to come up with a full album (which is 10 songs (or 35 minutes) of newly created material,) strictly in the month of February... Here is my breakdown of all of this mess:

RPM Challenge

- 29 Days to make a complete album... 10 songs or 35 minutes of new, previously unreleased material

Tools:

- iPhone, iPad, MPC Live, Turntable, PC... and whatever else makes a noise

Thoughts:

- no thoughts, just go make an album, fool!... start working out some song stems, see what sounds good and fits together and build on it from there. Might be a good idea to start 10-20 stems right off the bat, and filter out the good from the bad and keep watering them with ideas until they grow. By February 29th... finishing touches and BOOM... done.

Themes:

- could do a Meta theme, all about working within the boundaries of the Challenge and how it's done... sort of a behind-the-scenes album, about making the album itself... hmm... interesting.

- could be a random, sportatic, free-flowing thought kind of album that relates to nothing... eh...

- could potentially do an album about moving, or about my move or something similar... maybe a Life-Changes kind of album... hmm...

- could do the MCU album I've been keeping under my hat... but I think I won't have the time to comb through all the movies again given the time restraints.

- could do the Halloween/Horror album I've always meant to do... but similar time restraints will probably keep this from becoming a reality... for now at least.

- could do a Family album... stressing the importance of Family and Love and gay shit like that... lol

- could do a selfish album... stressing ME and how great I am, and how I am the god of the universe and all must bow down before me... umm... no....

- maybe do a political album... I've seen both sides of this spectrum, one half could be a liberal mindset and the other a conservative one... could go back and forth with the ridiculousness of both parties.

- in the same vein... perhaps an ultra-conservative, conspiracy theory filled venture that dives as deep into ufos as it does with Epstein and Pizzagate and JFK, etc, etc... X-Files style!

- more than likely, I will just come up with what I come up with... I've never been great, either with music or with writing, at strictly following a predetermined 'theme'... I take tangents and like to expound off of ideas and see where they'll go. So in all reality, if I do complete this album, it will likely be a mix of all kinds of themes and ideas and thoughts and rambling... just like my brain.

Let's do this!!