kavin.

Im pissed off!

7 acoustic guitar improvs from April all stuck together.

7 acoustic guitar improvs from April all stuck together.

7 acoustic guitar improvs from April all stuck together.

7 acoustic guitar improvs from April all stuck together.

7 acoustic guitar improvs from April all stuck together.

Don’t let tequila do the talkin

Well there’s trouble in paradise again
I thought that you were cheatin
I wanted to talk to you
So I scheduled a meetin
But when I started to sqwak
You turned around and walked
But you know I just can’t win
And you feel that I’ve been mistreatin you…read more

Seven short guitar daily improvisations not included on my RPM albums.

vocal by the lovely Linda
the mistake at the end was funny so I kept the take.

vocal by the lovely Linda
the mistake at the end was funny so I kept the take.

A somewhat ambient version of the country/folk standard.

My buddy Dennis and I recorded at an open mic, his song 2 Track Road.

A somewhat ambient version of the country/folk standard.

acoustic improv recorded in Terlingua, Tx for the RPM challenge. Can you hear the coyotes?

acoustic improv recorded in Terlingua, Tx for the RPM challenge. Can you hear the coyotes?

acoustic improv recorded in Terlingua, Tx for the RPM challenge. Can you hear the coyotes?

acoustic improv recorded in Terlingua, Tx for the RPM challenge. Can you hear the coyotes?

acoustic improv recorded in Terlingua, Tx for the RPM challenge. Can you hear the coyotes?

Sometimes love can be a hard bargain.

Thanks to Richard Hardrick for the inspiration.

Creating an improv every day this year. These are the best guitar improvs for January (so far).

Daily #14

God bless Neil Young

God bless Neil Young

God bless Neil Young

I’ve never been to Amarillo
Butchaknow
One day I will-o
I wont say no
If you ask me to stay-o
In Amarillo
Oh yes I will-o
Oh yes I will-o…

I’ve had my fill o’
Amarillo
Left behind my satin pillow,
I ran over an armadillo
But thank God & Don De Lillo
I’m free of Amarillo…read more

toy uke improv

Made from a tune I created on guitar and chopped up and resemebled or FRANKENSTEINED as I like to call it.

Two of my oldest tunes revamped and with new bits.

i played everything into reaSON 10

Shout out to Tom Waits, one of my favs. Rumor has it, he has had a similar problem with his piano.
I didnt think I would make it signing this way to the end of the song, lol.
Throat lozenge anyone??

This is a track I’ve been working on for quite a while so I am glad to finally have it out of my head.

I have a kind of love/hate relationship with time and its humble functionary, the clock. Ticking, in particular, is something I am ambivalent towards: I hate incessant ticking while, at the…read more

Sometimes love can be a hard bargain.

Thanks to Richard Hardrick for the inspiration.

Intro
Created only with an Electric Guitar

I just made this.

Some reasons I haven’t uploaded anything here in a year and a half:

• A lot of the projects I’ve spent the most time on are very complex, so they quickly burn me out as I’m trying to keep a clear picture of the whole thing in my head.

• After listening to a WIP for…read more

Well it’s been awhile for me. Busy summer and a bit of creative block all around. I’m happy to share a song I wrote this weekend to reflect on how tough change can be when you’re in the midst of it. So many in my life are in the midst of personal changes.

I’d surely welcome any feedback…read more

i gave amplitube 3 a free test run. Had to get ampli vst’s into audicity then mix and record / master yada. Still playing around , this stuff is tickie for an ole fart like myself to learn.

Grackle Art Gallery owner Matt Sacks discusses improvisation with bassist/musician Canyon Kafer after his performance at the House of the Rising Thumb in Fort Worth,Tx.

A little work in progress piece created for “I’m In the Box” art project started in an AP Studio Art workshop. Created on a bass but using Garageband.

Over a month of hourly time lapse (night edited out) with 17 note per octave ambient guitar accompaniment. This is probably the longest project I’ve set out to do. I left my time lapse camera in the kitchen window filming the tree in my backyard this spring from 3/18 to 4/25. I’m fairly happy…read more

400 BULLETS

400 guns. 400 bullets.
400 babies in the grave.
You got your New Pearl Harbor
Now it’s time for a new Passover.

400 guns

400 guns. 400 bullets.
400 babies in the grave.
Buy your $10,000 dog
One bad steak and he’s a knot on a log

© 2011 Royal T Music

Acoustic Jazz : Martin 00018

   " Bicycle n" thru the fifth's"

It’s been raining all day so I’ve been playing with my recorder and a new Irish Whistle that arrived from Scotland yesterday.

This song is in response to a song writing challenge; write a song about “Boots”.

Listen for my :

National Resolectric Baritone Guitar

Irish Whistle…read more

one of my pieces for RPM

February evening, dark outside, and it seems that is a silent snowstorm there writes sad poetry.

Another wonderful rhythm guitar part I borrowed from Keith Landry. Added lap steel guitar, bass and drums.

Yeah. More of an indictment of my lack of playing ability than anything else.

Updated (final?) version. Added some 12 string accents.
Bach’s Jesu, Joy Man’s Desiring

Solitary guitar and feedback coupled with loads of overdrive and reverb, one off recording. Very mota or gy!be-ish I guess.

Playing some Blues over a Bluesbreakers type backing track. Youtube vid link here as well.

Will Shannonhouse at Bill Reese’s house, snowed in on Music Night.

A song about my dad. Written a few years ago but I wanted my family to do the harmonies. Finally I got the last two laid down week. There are 10 harmonies featuring sisters, sons, daughters, nieces and nephews and I thank them all for their amazing contribution. What a talented family I have…read more

A simple 3 part improvisation