You may have heard of NaNoWriMo, an annual contest that challenges participants to write a 50,000 word novel (or novella, if you like) entirely during the month of November. It turns out there’s a similar contest for musicians: the RPM Challenge, which asks that you write an album of original material (defined as 10 songs or 35 minutes) entirely in the month of February.
You can see where this is going.
I’m on board. I found out about the challenge on Metafilter, so I’ve named my little experiment Cruise Elroy after an old question of mine that stumped the community. Tonight I plan to get to work and crank out my first tune.
Unfortunately, I don’t know very much about recording. I started to put together an amateur home studio after taking a class on digital music last semester — I have Logic Express, an M-Audio preamp thing, and a V-Tech dynamic microphone — but I haven’t done anything with it yet. In other words, don’t be surprised if I turn out a bunch of solo guitar tracks that sound like they were recorded underwater.
Anyway, it should be fun, and I’ll try to keep a log of my progress here.
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