“50/90” is a challenge that started decades ago on Yahoo! Groups, with the goal of writing 50 songs in 90 days. It starts on July 4th, and goes til October 1st. These days the challenge is hosted on the FAWM website.
I know you’re probably thinking “there’s no way I can write 50 songs in 90 days!”. And yeah, it’s not easy, and usually less than 10% of participants make it to 50. I’ve been doing the challenge since 2016, and in a few years I wrote only 3 songs.
The important thing is that if you write one more song than you’d normally write, you’re already a winner! 50/90 is an incredible supportive community, with prompts and challenges for inspiration. It’s a great way to get feedback on your songs, and to practice finishing songs!
The website is live, and the challenge starts in a week… who’s up for it? 🙂
Oh yeah, there’s a lot of people doing electronic music and instrumentals only. This guy does some awesome stuff, it’s unbelievable.
I started doing only electronic music, but I started participating in games, challenges, and collaborations, and I quickly got out of my comfort zone (specially the random collaborations). One year I decided to add some vocals for a random collaboration, got some good feedback, and eventually I took 2 years of singing lessons! Totally unexpected.
And of course you don’t have to do any of that if you don’t want, you can just post your songs and listen to songs in genres you like.
I did sign up, will check out that guy and also follow what you are doing.
From reading a bit on the forum it seems pretty chill so I probably will give it a go.
Only thing is that I am expecting a lot less free time the coming months. And I remember the stress of having to make something everyday from doing similar challenges. But just taking a chill approach and allowing more time between tracks might just work out fine.
Yeah, IMHO 50/90 is much more chill than Jamuary (31 jams in January) and FAWM (14 songs in February)… people take time off, and most people are not aiming for 50. I usually write a few songs in July, then I come back in September and try to catch up.