the RPM Challenge<\/a> in the specified February timeframe this year – like, say, despite your best “efforts” you honestly couldn’t figure out even the most basic things like even what style of music you’d like to do before 2\/25\/14, and when you finally decided on it it wasn’t going to be the kind of thing you could reasonably write and record in four days – you can take the RCFA Challenge instead. <\/p>\nThe RCFA Challenge is just like the RPM Challenge, except:<\/em>
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\n1) Instead of requiring a work window of 2\/1-28\/xx, your RCFA work window will take place entirely within any continuous 28-day interval you’d like… preferably the first 28ish days of March, but whatever. <\/p>\n2) There’s no mailing in a CD somewhere by noon on March 1, etc. <\/p>\n
3) There’s no central website for the challenge where your finished product will be posted, somewhere \/ somehow, and also at which no one will ever find \/ listen to your finished product in a million billion trillion years. (Actually, if I’m notified, I will<\/em> give your RCFA albums a shoutout and full review here… and since I actually know of two<\/em> semi-regular readers of my blog, your chances of getting heard by a single human being here vs. via the absurdly overpopulated RPM site may actually be much better!) <\/p>\n4) Here’s the single biggest difference between RPM and RCFA: Instead of having to start and finish one<\/em> “album” (min of 10 original songs and\/or min of 35 minutes of original music) in 28 days as per stated RPM Challenge standards, you must complete two<\/del><\/strong><\/em> (edit: see new “rule” below)<\/em> such “albums” in the same timeframe. They must also be discrete, “separately framed ‘n’ named” albums– absolutely no double “albums” allowed.<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is, after all, an atonement<\/em> challenge. <\/p>\nedit:<\/strong> Having slept on it, I think one “normal” RPM 10t\/35m “album” and one separate EP of min 4 original songs and\/or min 12 minutes of original music<\/strong> should be sufficient for atonement, so I’m going to alter the RCFA requirements to that particular combination of completed products. I mean, the Bandcamp kids these days seem to think 4-5 songs amounts to an “album” anyway. <\/p>\nHaving failed to find any kind of meaningful inspiration \/ semi-directed motivation for the RPM Challenge until well into its fourth scheduled week, I started my RCFA Challenge project(s) \/ 28-day work window on 2\/26\/14. How about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"…or what I’ll just be calling #RCFAChallenge for short. Musicians, here’s the deal. If something prevented you from completing the RPM Challenge in the specified February timeframe this year – like, say, despite your best “efforts” you honestly couldn’t figure out even the most basic things like even what style of music you’d like to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rcfa-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}