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Yet another big dumb rocker, but this one I kinda like. I think it's the hyper active chorus, even though I could barely sing it without the wheels coming off the bus.
I have no idea what the lyrics are about. None at all.
The guitar parts…
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DJチーズ2600 approached So?ing Machine with some song seeds. Their care instructions involved atypical rituals. Once performed, songs rapidly sprouted forth. (This is one of them. You must sit and listen.) Then a guy in a suit leaned out of a helicopter…
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BEAVERS AND WILLOWS
Capo @ 5 in C
FCG FC FCFG
F C G F C
Like beavers and willows
Bats and mosquitos
F) Toad C) frogs and F) flies (G
DA DA - E Am G C
Algae and oil spills
Shovels and coal hills
Black holes…
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THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA
capo @ 5 in C. 4/6 time…
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Another song that doesn't really stand out to me. This one is a little embarrassing though. The tempo is set at 85 beats per minute. Originailly it was 95 beats per minute. Why did I change it? Because I couldn't pick the guitar part in the…
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The 2020 50/90 will not be shut out. One song down, 49 to go.
Not much to say about this one. I came up with the bass and drums on the first night, really didn't like it at all after I added the guitars, and then liked it a tiny bit once…
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Back on the wurlitzer...
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BEAVERS AND WILLOWS
Like beavers and willows
Bats and mosquitos
Toad frogs and flies
Like algae and oil spills
Shovels and coal hills
Black holes and light
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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A 1990 experiment for organ.
I was up late one night, nearing the finish of composing this for my father, when I was interrupted by a telephone call telling me he had passed away. Like many of my compositions this one starts out slow and reflective…
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An old tune of mine that I recently added the vocal intro too.
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And here is the first reply to In Your Hands.
I say "first" because I've found another one, When I Try To Be Me, that Mrs R says I have to do too... but that's unlikely to be the next one I post because I'm working…
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Maxine turns 70 this week. Spoiler alert.. she's my mum.
Happy birthday Ma!
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The other night I was sitting out watching a little fire in my backyard, and thinking about how useless it is to let the past dictate our present and future. This one is dedicated to all of us with relationships in our history that have no place…
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Capo @2 in C
F C F C G
I said, "Okay, okay. I'll wear 'em one more time and I'll throw them
C
away."
F…
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This was my first collaboration with Naomi, and her lovely voice is perfect for this song. She has kindly allowed me to add it to my Paul Matthews Experiment project files....engineered and mastered by the guru that is 13111y....
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two guitar tracks, one bass track - the reverb is provided by a spring reverb tank with pre-amps before and after the tank.
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The Good Old Days
Greg V1
G Hot summer evening windows down
D Nothing to do but drive around
Am Turn up the song on the radio
C Cruise around nice and slow
Colleen V2
G Wind in my hair and my fav tune on
D I sing the verse and…
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Imagine a stately 3-master ploughing through the waves at the mercy of the tradewinds...causing stormy and then calmer weather....?
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created with fretless guitar and 5 tape loops, processed in Pure Data. Created for Sound-In event What's Normal?.
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One of those moments I had disappointed my lovely bride...
Tried to apologize with my guitar....hasn't worked yet...
I have a lonely guitar I keep beside my bed
"cause when my guitar's happy my lady's always sad?
The two don't get along…
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As I have said many times...I am happily married 99% of the time.
But this song was written in that 1% time frame? Jokingly.....
I disagree with what you see is always what you get
All I said is two little words, now my life is filled with…
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This would be the ballad of Rick and Debbie, head over heals, how about you?
It was a simple plan take her out one time
But something went wrong with that plan of mine
I didn't fall I didn't fall I didn't fall in love--I took a tumble…
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just trying out a new guitar effects plugin called "amplitude"
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This track started out nice and peaceful, but accidentally grew until I was not able to control it anymore.
Lyrics:
All that we do
its just me and not you
always the same
keep your head in the game
## pre-chorus
and away, and away…
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This song was written for those interested to hear a list of breakfast cereals.
Also, when you reverse "all brands kellogg's" you can hear "smell that in your pool" which makes an interesting title.
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Like beavers and willows
Bats and mosquitos
Toad frogs and flies
Like algae and oil spills
Miners and coal hills
Black holes and light
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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This didn't go as planned... I wrote this song for my wife Nicola while I was away in the UK working in March 2020... I excitedly played it to her from 3,500 miles away over the ether and.... I think she was expecting a ballad rather than a rather…
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It’s like floating down a river
When you’re not quite in control
That river’s going to take you
Only where it wants to go
So you reach out with conviction
At debris along the way
That river’s going to take you
If you give up and say…
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SLEEPY HEAD
Little Sleepy Head
Why do you fight so hard
Close your tired eyes now...
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See the video I made for this song at: https://youtu.be/hbyLj_tSpnE
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THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA
When you're born in California
There are things you take for granted
The sunshine and the desert and
The forests, and the bears and the beaches
In the tide pools of California
In the memories of one little…
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JUNK
This week's prompt is "DIRTY LAUNDRY"
Key C
I got a call from Russell
He had to move his Junk
He'd filled his car
He'd filled his trunk
Big black bags of Something
I said, "What's with these?"
He said…
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2013 was a decent year, song wise. I came up with a few good ones during the RPM Challenge in February, and one good one during NaSoAlMo in November.
This version is faster, shorter, has a bunch of new key changes, and has a little bit of…
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OK, let's delve once more into the magical shoebox of unused songs...
I've already recorded several that were written in 1994 (Sleeping with the Ghost, Elizabeth's Room, With Mum Again, If You Knew, A Hundred and…
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(Funny song about an embarrassing moment that turned out well.)
I was making the rounds, gaining ground on this cute little brunette
In a bar in Fort Worth, Texas, one night I'll never forget
But then that bartender ruined my plans…
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A song about two sides of Nashville. One, loving and perfect to nurture an upcoming songwriter. Two, a business of endless circles of deception and frustration. I mostly know the second.....
The rejection letters keep piling up, saying your…
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(Sadly, sometimes one friend thinks they are more than friends?)
Friend, she calls me friend. and I'll never tell her the truth
What I feel, how I wish that this friend could be so much more
But she's too close to ever see, that this friend…
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gimmick: melodica
(if you haven't played one, it's like a mini-keyboard that sounds like a harmonica and also really hates you if you have wimpy lungs)
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a *song about songwriting* I hate that sort of thing but i loved this one?
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Another song from my 2013 RPM Challenge album. I always like this one, but I'm not sure I did it justice this time. There is a lot of really sloppy guitar playing, even if the Klon KTR overdrive pedal sounds EPIC. Sorry, gear nerd.
This…
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not a song i'm proudest of, but 12-string guitars are such magic i couldn't cut it either.
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seriously i can only get CREATIVELY angry in the weirdest and pettiest ways.
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several songs were recorded in my bathroom, to my phone. This one got an actual-microphones-and-counterpoint-on-melodica treatment later, but here's this version.
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when political rant but no, pettier!
The good news is that i pioneered my "hit mandolin strings with a pencil to sound dulcimer-ish" technique, and not everybody gets that kind of chance in life.
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Going to start uploading (some of) the old RPM archive. because.
I remember this one came out of being mildly irked how many waltz-rhythm pop and alternative songs had "waltz" in the title. Why never a gavotte? A sarabande?
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Thumbjam app, a piece inspired by Gagaku, a type of Japanese classical music
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Once upon a time, in a land far away...
Just a minute!
xOx
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did a mashup -- came out like a blanket of sound to sleep on-- :)
Benjamin Smith Shane Cadman Kävin Allenson
yep enjoy-
for and from sound-in on facebook event phase 2
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A song about regrets. Luckily I changed my hectic schedule and was able to spend time with family, especially my Dad before he passed.
If I had time? I'd go visit with my Dad, and listen to those stories of when he was just a child.....If I…
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A funny song about someone's poor luck in marriage. Not being judgmental, but sometimes we just need to laugh.
My first Ex-wife, she bet me, I'd never marry again
She said no woman with half a brain would have me for her man
Well, I proved…
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A song of a temptation to avoid, rude awakening of how vulnerable we may be at times.
My love is on thin ice, dangerously close to the edge
I can't believe a man like me could get in such a mess
Oh, at home is my lovely wife unaware of…
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Funny situation about a love they refuse to give up on. Need a break every now and then.....
I was a happy boy with you as my girlfriend
You talked me into marriage, we've been fighting ever since
then came the time I didn't cry when you…
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After the visit to Spain in no. 7, I found myself drifting over the continent of Asia for no. 8 !! Hopefully have captured some of the flavours of that area of the World.....
As ever, 13111y supplied the final mastering.....cheers Billy.
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violin, analog cassette loops and Pure Data process. Created for Sound-In, Phase 2.
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Copyright © 2020 Roger Harris, Steve Krell, Colleen Dillon, Greg Connor
All Rights Reserved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_jBUi4Swck&feature=youtu.be
Verse 1
Circumstances… distant romances
I’m waiting for you to come home
And…
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A Caustic track, created for a friend's movie project.
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This song scares me. This song stresses me out. This song confuses me. I could write a song about how messed up this song makes me feel.
Is it the best song I've ever written? Not even close. Why then do I insist to myself that it's the…
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Lyrics:
and i am worn down and i was torn out.
all the things i could've, filled a form right out
is it a worm hole is it a warm hole?
should i take a jacket is it cold outside?
<----
enter the void now, enter the void now,
every…
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So my lovely wife bought me a guitar this week... I started by learning some basic and easy chord shapes and this song came together. It's the first one I've done where everything is played by me.
It also features my voice on lead and backing…
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Sam Mann and The Apes . Al Teman Howard Teman Eric Teman Sam Mann The original incarnation of this surreal conglomerate of undefinable talent. Ryan Mallory on sax. Brilliant Playing by everyone. Al's guitar playing on this song is some…
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This is from the band Sam Mann and The Apes sometime in the mid later 80's. Brilliant guitar work from Al Teman. Great playing and singing from a top knotch Hollywood strip band.
Lyrics......
Revolution Contribution Make Some Change…
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Just a mellow instrumental to get involved here. Hope you like it!
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Who says 3/4 time can't rock? This was originally from my 2013 RPM Challenge when, for some strange reason, pretty much everything I did just worked. Even the crappy songs from that album are less crappy than usual.
This song is as close…
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Found an old one not on here.
https://youtu.be/-hwthla49v8
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From the CD 'Barbered Violent' and my band 'Wild Frontier'
Your choice.....be prepared to be responsible for every choice you make and all that comes with the results of that choice. I quote from the bridge of this song..... Whine a little…
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From the CD 'Barbered Violent' and the band Wild Frontier... As I type I still have no time for Justifiers...Blamers...Apologists....et. al........
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From my CD 'Barbered Violent' and my band Wild Frontier... Angrier years gone by. Lyrics pertinent always.
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Red Tank Top Photo From A Late Love Of My Life Inspired This.
WOW Made You Look.
LYRICS
WOW JUST WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR WOW
DEDICATED TO THE LATE, ALWAYS HOT, ALWAYS FREE, ALWAYS AWESOME. JENN JENN
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