Got a guitar for my birthday... I have been trying to learn how to play it. This is a cover of an old Smiths song I tried to tackle for Lesson 10 "Finger Picking." 12.10.2013: rerecorded at slightly faster tempo; added small amount of distortion…

Inspired by those “music everyday” iphone commercials.

Version 2.0. Now with cheesy drums.

Thanks to the online Spanish/English dictionary guy for providing the vocals

Just messing around with a chord progression I liked. Some neighborhood wildlife joined in. Goofy, mellow stuff, even for me.

Far out, man

Recently, my wife and I discovered the TV show Portlandia, and it has become our Saturday morning ritual to watch the latest episode with our coffee. Anyways, I kind of got the theme song (http://www.ifc.com/fix/2011/02/portlandia-whats-that…

Another experiment... This time in Spanish 2/25/12: Somehow the original file got broken, so I had to re-upload this... nothing new here, except I lost all my nice comments :(

This track is actually 99.583333% M.T.C. But, I needed an easy project for July, since I didn't have a lot of time last month. He had published it as a "B-Side" called "Quarter of a 60th Spanish." For fun, I just added a few subtle twists. Probably…

I just got myself a new toy called Maschine. Maschine is a "Groove Production Studio." So I guess that makes this my first groove product.

Buckle up.

maybe tweak it a bit more this weekend...

This evolved out of an exercise in a workbook I just got on music composition. The original task was to write a melody in the Dorian mode about water...

If Ennio Morricone and Dr. Dre smoked a buttload of crack and decided to collaborate, except that one of them thought he was writing a soundtrack for the Godfather Part 11, and the other for Phantom of the Opera, Part 2, The Unwanted Sequel…

If your movie needs an 80's montage song, perhaps you should consider this one... :)

Did the world really need a cheesy, spaghetti western version of this classic Eagles song? I'm not sure. Did I make one anyway? Yes. Yes, I did. By the way the painting is "Villa Diablo" by Downe Burns. keywords: old clint eastwood movies, the…

This one scare me a little :) Probably gonna come back and mess with the levels and eq a little more later... Remixed: 12/17/2010

A cover of the Cure's minimalist alt-rock classic, an old favorite of mine. keywords: instrumental, chill, the cure, clock watching, lucky time Remixed: 12/18/2010 ... ...

This something I put together pretty quickly. But it reminds a little of the stuff they play in between news stories on NPR's radio show, "All Things Considered." Dear Robert Siegel, please play my song on the radio :) Remixed: 12/18/2010 keywords…

On a brisk autumn evening, in front of the Weather Channel, fast asleep, my dog and I dreamed up this song. keywords: electronic, experimental, chill, instrumental "Remastered" - 12/18/2010