My recording forum has an annual challenge we call BandBall. Participants throw their name in a hat and are randomly assigned to a “band” to write and produce an original song together over the course of eight weeks. This year was a special challenge for me. Of the four people…

November 2nd, 2025 I participate in a recording forum – The Recording Journey – where we share ideas on songwriting, recording, mixing, production, mastering – basically everything involved in creating and recording music. We regularly do challenges to prod each other to be more productive. One of those is a…

Three years ago I participated in a one hour songwriting challenge. Scary how long ago that was already. The challenge required you to write, record and produce a song from nothing to finished product in one hour. For my effort, the result was this two and a half minute song…