Date Archives February 2011

28 Day Song Challenge – Come Back Home Acapella (Day 20)

Here’s a little secret: I’ve always wanted to be in an acapella group. Even before Glee made it cool. I always pictured myself harmonizing on a street corner with a group of old men in hats, people walking by like we did that every day. Yeah, that would’ve been tight.

Unfortunately, this is probably the closest I’ll ever get to that dream. Me singing with 3 other versions of myself about getting caught cheating. Damn, not even one-tenth as cool. I couldn’t use autotune either, so sorry for the shitty singing and the NSFW-ish bridge haha.

Read about my 28 Day Song Challenge here.

28 Day Song Challenge – Cheers, Slangte, Kombe (Day 19)

Yup, today I’m officially another year older. Believe it or not, but I’m actually typing this out right after coming back from my birthday celebration. It was an epic night filled with crowded dancing and dead car batteries. And pizza throwing, a lot of pizza throwing.

But I digress haha, we actually were smart enough to make this song before we headed out for the night. I teamed up with my roommate Liam Humble for this one and we literally finished this song 30 seconds before we rolled out. We had a blast with doing it and even got our buddy Kyle Hill to contribute some vocals. We both made this track in record time (one take Liam!) so hope you guys enjoy. This past year has been absolutely amazing to me and I wanted to express it a little bit in this song. Peace, bday boy’s gonna get some sleep!

Read about my 28 Day Song Challenge here.

28 Day Song Challenge: Expect Much More (Day 18)

Tried making this one as quick as I could. I really had no idea where I was going with this song, it just kinda went. Thanks to BC for giving me ideas for the progression. Been having fun with all these synthy instruments though, more to come soon!

By the way, I’m digging these songs right now:

Childish Gambino – Freaks & Geeks
LMFAO – Yes
No Insurance – Better Than You
Madcon – Glow

Read about my 28 Day Song Challenge here.

28 Day Song Challenge – When I Make That Money (Day 16)

“When I make that money!” Now tell me that chorus ain’t catchy as hell!

It’s 5:40am. I’m officially up way too goddamn late. I’m gonna blame it all on this song. I was set to go to bed at a decent hour for once…and then I got caught up in trying to get this chorus right. The next few hours of my life were gone to tweaking, doubling, panning, EQing, and more shit that I don’t really know how to do.

But man, I had way too much fun making this one, singing in my car til the wee hours of morning. The neighbors must think I’m crazy haha.

Read about my 28 Day Song Challenge here.

28 Day Song Challenge – No Good feat. BC (Day 15)

Got to link up with another musician today, my buddy and talented rapper BC (check out his band noinsurance.bandcamp.com). We teamed up on the production and spent hours tuning it exactly how we wanted. BC actually taught me a bunch of new production tricks and he’s not so bad behind a midi keyboard either haha.

Good times and I actually dig what we were able to throw together. Oh and listen to this with headphones if you can – we spent way too much time playing with the pan and BC will be pissed if you miss it!

Read about my 28 Day Song Challenge here.

28 Day Song Challenge: Love Song (Day 14)

Today’s February 14th. You know what that means? This month long challenge is already HALFWAY donee! Damn, that went by really fast. Hey, I’m not complaining though. I’ll be looking forward to getting my life back haha.

But yeah, today is also a little thing called Valentines. Thought a love song would be appropriate for today, so hope you enjoy. Thanks to my roommate Liam Humble for helping me out. Happy V Day y’all.

Read about my 28 Day Song Challenge here.