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Starting off sounding much different, this has undergone considerable transformation in Audacity to reach the form in which you hear it now. Drone from a window a/c unit and more jackhammering from the other side of our building.
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Ali on Glass (Totally Drunken Monkey Mix)
Created 08012023
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This piece is somewhat programmatic, somewhat expressive. I wanted to tell a story of moving from a dark place of drudgery and powerlessness to finding courage, strength, purpose, and joy.
Created for the Record Every Month challenge for July…
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The "Drunken Monkey Approach" always
2 tracks of the Octatrack
stem from Ali
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July 2023 REM (record every month) .. Challenging month for music ... My Hospitalization didn't help ... hopefully back on track .. with more tunes .. check my YT channel for video.. Thanks for listening
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Mashup of two faves: Here Comes the Rain Again by the Eurythmics and The Sun Always Shines on TV by a-ha.
Tom on guitar, Kat on vocals
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Cover by Low (<3 Mimi).
Tom: guitar and vocals; Kat: vocals, harmony
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Hohner chromatic harmonica and melodica, snare cajon, Koala app
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monochromatic harmonica, melodica, snare cajon, sampled and manipulated with Koala app
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The B-side for my July 30DaySongs submission is a cover of a tune I've loved since it came out way back in 1982. Wilsun has been having a rough go if it lately and I recorded this to hopefully cheer him up for a bit.
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Sometimes a joke gets out of hand. This one is some combination of many many MANY inside jokes from the group on the RPMChallenge slack group, aka Conference of Mayors or Church of England, depending on the project.
The shortest version is that…
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From the Wikipedia: "Hummus (/ˈhʊməs/, /ˈhʌməs/; Arabic: حُمُّص ḥummuṣ, "chickpeas"), also spelled hommus or houmous, is a dip of Arab origin, spread, or savory dish made from cooked, mashed chickpeas blended with tahini, lemon juice, and garlic…
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Time was when I used to see you hiding
Your face so clear amongst the crowd
Time was I could sense you in the same room
As if you'd called my name out loud
Don't kid yourself, you've not got ESP
Your face so clear amongst the crowd
I'd…
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Finally got around to connecting several electronic items on my side desk - Kawai R-50e drum machine from around 1995, Fostex X-18 4-track tape recorder from a couple of years earlier than that (I think), a Korg volca keys from 2021, and a handful…
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Another lovely song from Leum. He's prolific, that one is!
It was fun to collaborate on lyrical tweaks for this one, working together to tighten up a solid draft into a rich, compact song.
For recording, we used a couple of condenser mics…
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Mike's fun rockabilly follow-up to Scammers, Spammers, and Cons from a previous RPM Challenge.
We recorded the drums, bass, one rhythm guitar track, and a scratch vocal take live off the floor, then added the other guitar tracks and a clean…
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Song idea number 12 becomes finished mix number ten of 50 for the 2023 50/90 challenge.
I don't hate it, but the lyrics are laughably bad and there are some really bad pitches in the vocals in the chorus that were copied and pasted all over…
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Song idea number 10 becomes finished song number nine of 50 for the 2023 50/90 challenge.
Nothing special here other than the time signature being 15/8. I want to play with time in ways other than the normal 7/8 and 5/4 this year, and here…
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Song idea number 20 is finished song number eight of 50 for the 2023 50/90 challenge.
I really like the vibe of this one, simple and basic with a cool groove, but I HATE the vocals. The melody, the lyrics, and most of all the performance…
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In my head
All the time
Relentless
Tieing me down
In my room
Now and forever on repeat
It won't leave me
I reject those who help me
I'm ashamed:
You think me weak
It's lasting then
Did I mention
It destroys me
All of the time…
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A love rap jazz piece with my pals on wikiloops.com
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I got a saxophone! OK, I know this isn't...let's just say it *isn't*. However it's my first sax improv, so it's one for the books.
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A recording by our Muskegon-area neighborhood bluegrass group.
Despite its upbeat association and recent use in pharmaceutical TV advertising,
this is a rather sad song; but, like most others do, we perform it in an upbeat style.
Marsha Kitchka…
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an older but longer demo which i made about 2 months before i started to "understand" a bit more than basics of music theory
i forgot to add a proper bass, maybe if i feel like it i will add some bass to make the song more interesting
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My music setting of Rosebud reciting one of her poems.
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Lots of loud noise going on with the refurbishment of the condo I live in, so thought I would haul out the horn and honk along. Been away for a couple of weeks working on a 50th anniversary restaging of David Tudor's Rainforest IV in Kingston…
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I've been drifting in my head
After midnight I escape my bed
Misplaced compass I spin around
Shifting pictures they wisp and confound
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A synth jam created using mostly instances of the UVI Falcon Softsynth, including Falcon's own version of an 808 drum machine sequencer. The sequence is mostly the same thing just paused and restarted here and there where a pause felt better…
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You Just Went Away
2023© John Schofield
V1
The lights of the fishing boats
Sway and dance in the night
I stand on the balcony
Looking over the bight
V2
A sweet breeze is carrying
The scent of the ocean
And with it the memory
The…
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My lyrics, set to music and performed by Gordon Todd:
The Bar at Sorrow Point
©2020JohnSchofield
Lizzy went in search of action
She found this old juke joint
Inside it she met Billy
It was the bar at Sorrow Point
They danced too…
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This started out as song idea #3 and ends as finished mix 7 of 50.
I like the chorus here though it is a bit overly wordy and hard difficult to sneak in breaths while singing. That's about all I like with this song though. It might be salvageable…
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Song idea #19 is finished song 6 of 50 for the 2023 50/90 Challenge.
It seems like every time I work on one of these projects and start thinking my mixes are too dry so I start adding more delay and reverb on the individual instruments there…
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2023 50/90 Challenge idea #18 becomes completed mix number 5/50, which means we're 10% finished with this summer's project! WOOHOO!
The song isn't terrible, I guess. It's not good either. It's kinda blah. Maybe heavy guitars might have…
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Okay, another 50/90 Challenge song. This started out it's life as idea #17 and it now becomes finished mix number 4/50.
Another song that feels like not-being-shit was in its grasp but it didn't quite get there. I think the dinky little wimp…
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Written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in July 2023
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2023 50/90 song idea #9 becomes finished song number three of 50. I am 6% done with this summer's challenge!
I like this one. It's short and sweet and terribly simple, and there are timing issues all over the place, but I dig it.
All of…
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Song idea #2 becomes finished song 2/50 for the 2023 50/90 challenge. I feel like this song is almost good. Not quite, but almost. It's like being a decent song was in it's grasp but it somehow fell short. The shitty mix and shittier lead…
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This short microtonal music composition uses 22 equal divisions of the octave instead of the usual 12.
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Poor old Reg ....this time its killed his dream ...
Its Killed my dream
I have the voice of the broken
Arguing with thoughts in my head
Dancing the sad tunes
around with visions of her in his bed
I got love
I got anger
Consuming up…
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Well Reg is still trying to stop his bad habits, gluttony, drunkeness, his Olicness on everything and his wife gave him some good advice "All you gotta do is stop" ....easier said than done me thinks.....
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(samples music and interpolates lyrics from "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's)
[Verse 1]
Don’t want to lose this
What's it like in San Jose there?
I'm a thousand miles away, but girl, tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Them chicks…
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(samples music and interpolates lyrics from "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's)
[Verse 1]
Don’t want to lose this
What's it like in San Jose there?
I'm a thousand miles away, but girl, tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Them chicks…
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A piano improvisation from my living-room piano.
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using a Pipa and playing the preset patterned notes and putting that atop a bass guitar and a regular wah guitar, also using the preset pattern rifts but changing the chords and things like that. --
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existential dread has hit my soul
weigh me down like a lump of coal
or the monkey on my back burning fossil fuel
it's getting harder to keep cool
keep on acting like everything's fine
that dog in his burning house
crossing the line, break…
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It is so pleasant round these ways
Don't change my home
The people here, they feel the same
Don't stay in range
I've heard the whispers
They're not too subtle
Folk like us should never be seen
I've heard the rumours
They're not too…
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2023 50/90 challenge song idea #1. One down, 49 to go.
This isn't so much a song as an exercise. One of the things I want to play with this year is using time signatures I've never attempted before. This song is in 13/8 and there are timing…
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Sound In mashup
Dated 20230720
Chris Bill Darryl
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I try to emulate trumpets with my voice from time to time.
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