There's a few things going on here in this little all MIDI experiment. First, I wanted to show an example of artistic clipping to go with my current posts in the forums on the subject. The kettle drums in this piece clip in to the red on their…

A little scratch track from a few months ago. A song about the trials and tribulations of being 11 years old. Watching Six Million Dollar Man, dodging bullies and pretending our bicycles were Harleys. I was at a friends house and saw a little…

This is our little bundle of joy now grown up to be 10 years old. She took up the flute this year at school and this is her first effort in front of my microphone. She decided on the flute after watching some vids of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull…

(Tolar & Savigear 2010)

return to a rpm song

Getting back to some stuff that was on the shelf before rpm, dusting off an old acoustic instrumental here.

The improvisation concept behind this was to only change one note at a time out of a group of three, slowly morphing the tune, except for a couple times that I forgot what I was doing.

This used the grain delay in Guitar Rig to get the shimmery sound in the background. Otherwise I don't remember what the actual improvisation thread was.

Improvisation based very loosely on the chord progression for "Four On Six."

Improvisation very (VERY) loosely based on the chord progression for jazz tune "Move."