Jams for Jamuary! Made using prompts for my Music Production Club: https://brianfunk.com/mpc

#Jamuary2025

Jamuary Day 1 - using prompts I made for the Music Production Club: https://brianfunk.com/mpc

Synths are from my Dream Keys Ableton Live Pack: https://brianfunk.com/blog/dream-keys

1 Echoes of a New Beginning

#jamuary2025 day 2 
Day 2: "Fresh Horizons"
Activity: Experiment with a plugin, instrument, or sample pack you’ve never used before or haven’t explored much. Let curiosity guide you.
Philosophy to Keep in Mind: "The most important thing is to decide. Decide and the rest falls away."

It's been a while since I just made a song on the acoustic guitar, so it felt like "Fresh Horizons." 

Lyrics:
I made up my mind 
Now is the time
I won't wait any longer
I'll do it tonight
Later tonight
I won't wait any longer
This time I'll try
I'm going to give it my all
This time I can't hide
Behind a lack of effort
I'm on a mission
Looking for some truth
Now I'm in a condition
I got scared
What if I should fall
Will my grave read "here lies another lifeless failure
Always too scared to try life passed him by no refund
Always going to do it one day
Never enough time
Always too tired
So leave the real things behind"
I made up my mind

Download my #jamuary2025 prompts: https://brianfunk.com/blog/jamuary-2025


2 I Made Up My Mind

Download My Jamuary 2025 Prompts: https://brianfunk.com/blog/jamuary-2025

I wanted to focus on my Live Vocal FX Rack, which you can download here for free: https://brianfunk.com/blog/live-vocal-fx-ableton

3 The Climb Aboard

Jamuary Day 4 - 4 Tracks - using prompts I made for the Music Production Club: https://brianfunk.com/mpc

Music made with Ableton Move

4 Track Move

Jamuary Day 5 - write in 5/4 - using prompts I made for the Music Production Club: brianfunk.com/mpc

5 54 Hazy Days

Jamuary Day 6 - Found Sound Orchestra - using prompts I made for the Music Production Club: brianfunk.com/mpc

6 Found Sound Orchestra

#jamuary2025 Day 7 jamming on Ableton Push 3 with a layered Instrument Rack made from 3 instruments from 3 of my Ableton Live Packs.

TXTR Ableton Live Pack - https://brianfunk.com/blog/txtr
Classical Guitar Ableton Live Pack - https://brianfunk.com/blog/2016/10/7/classical-guitar-ableton-live-pack
MELT Ableton Live Pack - https://brianfunk.com/blog/2017/8/18/melt

7 Lucky Day

This is the end of a song "Freeze Frame" my band, Some Good Evil, is working on.

8 Freeze Frame End - Some Good Evil

Jamuary Day 9 - I Got To Go - using prompts I made for the Music Production Club: brianfunk.com/mpc

9 I Got To Go

Jamuary Day 10 - Focus on Texture - using prompts I made for the Music Production Club: brianfunk.com/mpc

10 Forest Life

11 Morny

12 By the Ice by the Sea

Experimenting with a kalimba through some fx in real time.

13 Washed Ashore

14 Who What When Where

#Jamuary2025 Day 15 - Let the Magic Die

A really quick jam with the Fender Bass IV, Telecaster, and the Foundational Drums Pack. Vocal FX: https://brianfunk.com/blog/live-vocal-fx-ableton

Lyrics inspired by the book The Giver

I wonder if the things we see are true
Looking for some meaningful things to do
It seems like nothing really makes much sense
And isn’t it odd  
I look around and I see colored eyes
A red apple on a blue sky
A strangers face I never saw before 
I think we might have let the magic die

15 Let The Magic Die

Day 16 - 16-Bit 

Used my 16-Bit Ableton Live Pack - https://brianfunk.com/blog/16-bit

16 Always a Little Closer

17 Digital Distortion

Recorded on the Tascam 388. 
Acoustic Drums, Gibson Acoustic Guitar, Fender Bass VI (x2), Fender Telecaster, Vocal

Don’t worry about loyalty
That’s a big thing about me
Once I’m on your side I’m on your side

Like legal document 
You can stamp those words from my mouth
On my forehead

If you want to stay 
That’s ok 
And if you want to leave 
I’ll tag along
If you’ll have me

Who knows where we’ll end up
But we know we’ll get there together 
Hand in hand 
Will time barge in on us
Like it always does
 
If you want to stay 
make my day
And if you want to leave 
I can always say

Even when the nights are long
And everyone else is tapping out
I stood my ground

Even if it all goes wrong
I can look myself in the face 
I stood my ground

I stood my ground
Even if I’m wrong
I will stand my ground 
What if I’m wrong
And I stood my ground

18 I stood my ground

19 Snow Cover

I give away my best  every day
For people who wish I’d just stay home
And I don’t think that I disagree
It’s not working out for them and it’s not working for me

Would you meet me in Montana
The cost of livings lower there
We could settle down and start over
Living here is costing me
The best times of my life

I’m not above giving up
There’s skill in knowing when enough is enough 
How you spend your day is how you spend your life
I’m tired of wishing away days for a weekend

Would you Meet me in Montana 
We could settle down out there
Picking up odd jobs and living small
Cuz living here is costing me
The best times of my life
I’m trading the best time of my life for a little money

I wanna know how to live
I wanna feel excited
And I don’t want to miss
A chance to ignite it

Would you meet me in Montana 
I know you had a lover there years ago
We could settle down and start over
Living here is costing me
The best times of my life

20 I'm Trading the Best Times of My Life for a Little Money

Musician, Producer, and Educator from New York. 
Host of the Music Production Podcast. 
Author of 5-Minute Music Producer. 
Berklee Online teacher. 
Ableton Certified Trainer.

#Jamuary2025

Brian Funk