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Trying out a new strat: not letting myself work on details on the computer until the skeleton of the song is complete. Result is a lot of variety in songwriting, but a bit rougher arrangement/mix.
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Yesterday I made a friend.
Someone I…
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This one is short and to the point. Dedicated to those with with guts to fly in the face of conformity and live their best life. I try but it's hard to detox after all these years. Recorded as part of the August 2022 RPM - Record Every Month challenge…
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When the kids are in bed
That’s the best part of the day
When the kids are in bed
What more can I say?
we're going to watch game of thrones
episodes till half past three!
we say but by a quarter past nine
Well we've all but fallen asleep…
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For some reason this one demanded to be written...
So here's to all of us that have been in this situation a time or two! Hugs and love to us all!!!
Feel Just Like A Loner
Verse 1
We sit across the table
We share the same old food…
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I sat at the dock and watched time slow into an object.
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live loop jamming with the fretless Chinese junk Strat
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Written and Recorded: Feb 28, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (FBbEbGCF, FBbEbGDbF, Capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
Last track for RPM 2010, and by far my favorite of the batch…
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Another guitar loop from 2008. Proof I can write "happy" music :)
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Lyrics by John Schofield, music and performance by Paul Henry
The Things You Didn’t Do
2021©John Schofield
On a restroom wall in Baltimore
Above a broken sink
Someone scratched this message
It’s later than you think
I took this simple…
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A farewell to summer and those long summer evenings. Chords available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ca0DNhDnK0np3tixMA5L7BSMpm58H9Vb/view?usp=drivesdk
Long Summer Evening
Long summer evening
Work done for the day-ay
Heading…
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This song sets a breathless pace. It's about a girl who dances everyone else under the table.
Lyrics:
Dancing through the crowded room
A silver band in her hair
Weaving, whirling, on her toes
There's music in the air
A lover taps his…
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Demo version of “Everyday,” written and recorded in February 2021 for the 2021 RPM Challenge.
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Sleazy boyfriend goes out on the working girls money , what a creep
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Part 1 of a travelling trilogy. Played on electric guitar in Dropped D Tuning. On the Wetband site here at Alonetone I overdubbed some slide guitar and bass: https://alonetone.com/wetband/playlists/traveling-trilogy/traveling-on-by-woody-b…
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A little break, and now back with another drama/film/game trailer type short....! Hopefully enjoyably atmospheric.......
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With the road flat ahead of me
I push the pedal to the floor
No looking back any more
My future is ahead of me
As for the past I closed the door
I’m leaving all of that behind
Gonna be, better times ahead
Won’t stop until I am dead…
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This is a remastered version of DJam, uploaded previously, with Darrin Kobetich on mandolin. Look him up on myspace, he's an incredible guitarist! I am playing a National Estralita resonator tuned to double drop-D.
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Since you’ve gone
It’s all gone south
The dunces took over
Stupidity rules
They open their mouth
To prove they’re fools
You didn’t believe in god
And made me wonder how
If there was one
How could he allow
What evil has been done…
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Sometimes life tends to repeat itself if you're not careful.... Good to find a moment to recognize old patterns and shake them off.
Great help on this one from the MN Coffee Table Gang - Greg Connor on guitar and vocals, and Mark Lofgren…
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its been a while.....Thanks for listening
I want to be free
Some people want to laugh
While others just want to cry
Some people want to live it large
while others just want to hide
This world is some kind of a crazy place
Where love…
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Chords and info on this song can be found for free at https://websterguitar.blogspot.com/2018/02/into-rhythm-of-love-fingerpicking-in.html
Into The Rhythm of Love by Wayne Webster
I’ll meet you downtown
In some bright caf…
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more-east-coast-meets-west-coast-snsthesis by Chris + the runout jig by James + supa polynova 1-07 by Bill - Songs mixed together,.. Chris's song is stretched to fit the size of the other songs...
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A happy little tune about a long road trip my wife and I took this summer.
Lyrics:
Well we were young and we were free
And it was you and it was me
And we were out long after midnight
And the sun was shining all the night through…
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"Smalltown Boy" by Bronski/Somerville/Steinbachek
I dug up my old iPad Air (1st gen 2013) out of storage a few days ago. This was an exercise of what an old iPad with an old version of GarageBand can still do. It was actually fun to have limited…
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"For You" and "Feel Flows" were two songs created for the 2022 RPM Challenge.
"For You" was a real song, with lyrics, singing, guitar, etc., the works.
"Feel Flows" however, was filler. It's basically like an super-extended dub remix of…
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A new little ditty, guitar tuned to Open D, capo on first fret. Open Eb then ? Whatever ......
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"Hold Me Close" written, recorded, and mixed (very quickly) in three hours on September 13, 2022.
Cover art by Dan Upton.
and on this fateful day i'll be
forced apart away from you
my destination i can't see
and i don't know where…
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I'm trying my hand at creating instrumentals for Sync Licensing. This track is actually one file containing 3 pieces of music: Orion's Belt 1, 2 & 3.
You can find my instrumentals on Pond5. Here is the address:
https://www.pond5…
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Just an ambient song, about waiting. We are all waiting for something.
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Brent wrote a song. A really good song.
I asked for his session file. I replaced his drum and keyboard sounds and remixed things.
I added a second guitar and some strings.
I created an odd percussion track.
Then I recorded my own vocals…
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"Treasure" is an alt rock song that i wrote.
Lyrics:
Dig it out
Leave it in
Seven inches underground
In the shade of crooked tree
I can't stand another night
Wrap it up in plain white
Lift me up then bring me down
I like having you…
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These tracks (Easyeverything) were made while trying out some new gear; Moog Grandmother and Elektron Model Samples specifically. I tried to make the sort of Chillwave/Vaporwave I like to use as background music, while trying out arps and sequencers…
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Had a little help with the lyrics and melody on this one (thanks Fae!). I put it together kind of quickly. I might come back and revisit this one. So nice to be back in Logic and out of garage band. Oh the freedom.
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When i was 15 i’d, had enough
Got all my things and, packed them up
Flipped off the whole world, i was so tough
Little did i know things would get so rough
Got so excited to be, on my own
Finally a place that i, could call home
Little…
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this is a single stem that was a kinda of guitar preset that I have altered with effects that were automated --- I have singled out this guitar track and added more automation of the synthesizer that is making the guitar sounds modulation changes…
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Taken from an old archival tape reel - probably mid-'90s - it took me a while to figure out what I had done here. Written on the tape box was the word "Slowbird", and it eventually dawned on me that the obvious theremin part was dubbed onto a…
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In the greater scheme of this vast universe, we're just invisible specks. Something to remember as we trip through this bizarre human life of ours. Recorded for the August 2022, RPM Record Every Month Challenge.
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You crave the sea, the oceans far away
And further every day
You watch the sky, and see the birds all fly
Towards their destiny
But where are they going?
And when can we leave?
You’re climbing up, the mountain’s summit
Just a few more…
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You came and planted your flag
You gave a name to all this
You cleared away all the weeds inside
You built a solid fortress
The walls around it so high
You kept the door open
All the time, open wide
Sometimes i crawl inside
I know…
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I completely agree
That it’s harder to fall than leave
You said before you let me kiss you
It’s a wonder that we
Can still fondly remiss, that kiss
The miracle of the red dress
20 years from today
When i’m lying in my grave
My face…
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This same old story,
Boy loses girl and can’t move along
Stuck in a rut and moping around
You’re not gonna fix it writing a song
Stand in place, start the chase
Turn and slap you right in the face
How long, something better comes along…
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Another day of broken promises
Like all the other days before
You start each morning with such optimism
That lasts until your feet hit the floor
That’s when things begin to fall apart
And the rain starts to pour from above
There’s no hope…
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off the tracks
I fell off the grid
red balloon rising
with a runaway ID
I won't come back
I've rose too far
propelled by bottle lightning
that's exactly what we are
to these distant stars
we aim to live
and surpass our scars…
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This is a recording my brother and I did together in about 2008. He played the piano and I’m on viola.
He passed away on 05 December 2020.
We all miss him terribly - I’m glad we took the chance to make some small recordings like this. He…
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Oh brother
Can you hear my words
From that strange place
Beyond this plane
Or maybe, just maybe
There’s nothing, there’s no one
To hear my call
My tears
The knife of tomorrow
Without you beside her
She wilts, she falters
She falls…
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I improvise vocally or visually every day and this is today's bit of abandon I'd like to share with you all. I just get in front of the mic and let my mind wander as I sing. This particular piece is an exercise in rhythms and harmonies. Love…
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Strong Romantic Music Fusion track by your favorite Artist Annazo. We are most alive when we are in love, Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage…listen Like and Share some Love
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Annazo-Hustle go pay, let’s hustle and bobble together, Highly Inspirational track brought to you by our favorite Artist Annazo
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Annazo-Forget, A song for all our love ones, love your neighbor as we love ourselves…Track brought to you by Annazo
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Annazo-Hustle Anthem, This track hits hard, Constant Grind, all those who loves the hustle make more papers and ball…Song by our favorite Artist Annazo
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Annazo-Weeding day, A song for the lovely hearts, let’s all feel the love of being in a companionship…track brought to you by our favorite artist Annazo
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Love Song, for the love birds out there, An exceptionally soul touching song brought to you by our popular artist and producer Annazo…
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Lately I have really been wanting to make more structured things with parts/progression/transitions etc., but I think I was avoiding it because I am (1) bad at it and (2) don't even know how to do it with my setup. But I think I just need to suck…
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Another collab for the Box of Frogs album coming soon.........
Men in Trousers
Watch out cause they are everywhere
Their are watching you right now
Their trying to figure out
the where the what and the how
Just how can they open your…
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Combining Weeks 29 and 30. Was in Victoria last week and wrote these lyrics. Came home and recorded this week. Finally played some theremin during the weekly challenge. See if you can spot it!
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Re-uploading a new version of this one. I think it's done now.
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Thought I'd share something from my latest project: Putting together instrumentals of public domain songs to use as intermission music for a community theater production. We got dinged for streaming copyrighted music in our previous production…
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Delanky the Afropop singer is finally back with a new love song title YOU WANNA BE MY FRIEND.
Do well to download and Listen to this Amazing Sound
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The mighty ''Empty Bottles'' return to celebrate the Native Cultures
That thrived in Noth America for centuries
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For the Sound-In Humdinger event. Electric kazoo!
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