Little time, so I picked up an unfamiliar app. It took a bit to get the workflow, but I got it enough to build a sloppy thing. Here's that thing. 

Jamuary2025 Day 14 - should be sleeping

The area I seem to be learning the most this year appears to be ways of manipulating the energy of a section.  So much to learn. 

Here's what the synth voice is saying (I'm kinda worried about the little guy):

I should not be here
maybe one more beer
those good times
were better than we knew

I got to find
the good times
in my mind
the good times

Jamuary2025 Day 16 - those good times

Familiar concept. Different execution. Maybe more dancing. Meditative dancing.

Jamuary2025 Day 17 - an offering

Sometimes the cover art is better than the tune. It happens. 

Jamuary2025 Day 18 - Roller Shark™

There are things here. But those things don't make a thing. So it goes. 

Jamuary2025 Day 19 - soup o' noodles

Just bass on this in very different registers.

Jamuary2025 Day 24 - the imposter

Barely any time with an instrument on Day 29, so straight to the phone (with some edits later). Had I been able to run with it, I'm sure I'd have got a quick song draft out of it. Still, maybe something here to work with in the future. 

Jamuary2025 Day 29 - scrunchy alt rock sketch

30 days down, one to go! The past week or so has been especially tough to scrounge up inspiration and the will to work toward something regardless, but here we are, and there's little this month I'd just discard out of hand. 
I gave myself permission to just blindly grab some preset sounds and see what happens, rather than trying to build from scratch, and here we are, something happened. Wonderful? Nah, but something nonetheless.

Jamuary2025 Day 30 - bad math

This was meant to be a bouncy little celebratory thing--you can hear hints of that in the cheesy melody--and I'd thought I'd end the JAMuary challenge with a complete song. It had other ideas, I guess.
In any case, I made it--31 days of showing up to crack the surface, trust the process, run with whims (if not scissors), and make something. Thanks to all the remarkably supportive Jamuarians (how do you find time to listen and comment so much while making your own incredible stuff?--superhumans!) and to Brian Funk's inspiring podcast that first introduced me to this challenge several years ago. It's a life changing deal, and new every year. I hope we won't wait until next year to share more music, maybe even the more polished sort. 
I look forward to catching up on my Jamuary listening over the coming week. 
JAMuary 2025 is in the bag. *high five*

Jamuary2025 Day 31 - 31 days

I listened back to what I posted and regretted the last-minute drum loop addition. The drums on the cheesy part just up the cheese factor too much--if I'm gonna make music for supermarkets, it should at least be on purpose. The chords stand better on their own, I think, and I am quite proud of that aspect for about half of this thing. Anyway, here's the pre-drum-loop version. 

Jamuary2025 Day 31 - 31 days (OG no drums version)

Originally from various sides of various mountain ranges near and far from the sea, Pally's got the waves and the crags and the peaks and the plains, the evergreens and the waves of grain, the salty breeze and the fireflies deep in those bonny veins. A forever tanline from the Bible belt and bad winter skin ensure that every song's a lie, and every lie's the damndest truth, and any truth a pretentiousest overstatement.

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