This is the RPM Challenge:
record an album in 29 days, just because you can.That's 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February. Go ahead… put it to tape.
We had a heck of a great time last year: more than 860 bands from around the world completed the challenge, creating more than 6000 new songs in 29 days, spanning the full creative spectrum from electronic to experimental, jazz to jam, folk to freak out. What they had in common was that they came together to make music, formed an online community, supported each other and got it done.
RPM is not a contest; it's a creative challenge. What if every musician you knew put their music first for 29 days? What if every living being who could pick up an instrument spent February exploring their music? What if you recorded the best song of your life? What if you put aside the traditional expectations - that your record has to be a product that can be sold, that it has to be recorded in a studio with all the bells and whistles? What if you could do whatever you wanted? What if you recorded a solo record for the first time? What if you tried a new genre? What if you collaborated with someone you'd never met?
Write some instrumentals, split up the songwriting duties amongst band members, form an RPM side project, write songs on the piano or clarinet instead of your primary instrument, make that metal album you've always wanted to - buy a ukulele! Just do your best to make the best album you can. Be unafraid.
What's stopping us? Nothing. February is Record Production Month. You have no reason to say no, and nothing to lose.
Learn more and sign up at www.rpmchallenge.com . Read the band journals, visit the discussion baord, and look at the map to see who's particpating near you. You can even hear every song from all last year's albums on the RPM Challenge Jukebox.
Sign up now!