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This is one of only two songs from this year's 50/90 that was started on guitar rather than bass. It's also one of three where the vocals were recorded on a day where I couldn't sing in tune to save my life. It's also one of three where the…
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August 6 - Well this is a tome and rather wordy compared to most of my lyrics. I do so much in verse/chorus form, wanted to try something different, so this is in AABA form. Had the musical idea for the A section and then as I've had the current…
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August 4 - Week 4 challenge: Fire. My mind went to several fiery relationships that I've experienced in my lifetime. And out here on the prairie late summer wildfires are a normal thing.
VERSE:
Driving down that highway
Smell the smoke in…
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July 31 - Started out as "Invisible Things" (from the Poe quote "invisible things are the only reality" - maybe that's another song), turned into "Invisible Words" which I know a lot about as an introvert. I often prefer to stay silent, but there…
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July 28 - My lifelong struggle with resistance to completing creative work has me where I am today, finally overcoming. I had this track with another set of lyrics that just didn't fit, then another, and then this came. I think it works better…
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Another protest song, the state of our country and world has been on my mind.
VERSE:
Smoke and confusion
Marching on our soil
Leaders telling lies
Darkness in the cities
Militia on the ground
They wear the worst disguise
CHORUS…
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VERSE:
The whites of your eyes
Filled with red again
Your mind is telling lies
Says this is the end
The pain is always there
Lost in endless time
You know this was never fair
Tell everyone you're just fine
CHORUS:
Zombify
It will…
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July 17 - Her chair is in my studio, as well as one of her old suitcases that I use as a table. She was so dear to me. The verses would need to be re-worked, and it's kinda long.
VERSE:
It sits there in the corner
The fabric's pretty worn…
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July 15 - Random collab. Laurie sent me a lyric and I sent her a basic idea that wasn't really working that well. She wrote a quick new lyric and it inspired me a lot to revise/revamp my original idea and this is the result. A fun collab and I…
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July 12 - Skirmish. Prompt: Such a thirst. Decided to take that as my first line and go from there, ending up being about the desire to return to normalcy.
VERSE:
Such a thirst
I'm yearning for some normalcy
It’s not coming
Have we been…
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July 11 - The Skirmish writing prompt is from titular...use whatever inspires you all words or just a title?:
"___stubborn routine of the ohio
banks, nails, losers
robinson : twinkle waterfall
five (orpheus)
thought nocturnal___"
I just…
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July 11 - Skirmish. A mix of autobiographical and made-up stuff to the prompt "Too Straight"
VERSE:
My mama told me
Make sure to get an education
Something to fall back on
But I didn't listen
So life's been a bumpy road
Many paths I…
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July 11 - Skirmish. The prompt was - make your own prompt from any of the letters in “thermodynamic.” My first thought was to bale as it seemed to hard. Decided to have a little fun with it and be silly. Didn’t exactly create a prompt, but my…
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July 10 - Another skirmish, messed up the end of the demo but I just gotta let it go for now!
VERSE:
It started out as a drizzle
Dotting the winding dusty road
For many hope began to fizzle
And the dark clouds began to overload
Many…
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July 10 - Skirmish. Refers to you know who.
Lyric:
He's a petulant little child
Ranting, raving mad
Apoplectic in the extreme
To me he looks rather sad
His Twitter feed on fire
With vengeful, spiteful hate
An exasperated urchin…
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July 10 - Skirmish. Got this in right on the hour, had the lyric and basic melody in 30 minutes. Takes me the rest of the time to get a decent take. Fun but nerve-wracking at the end!
VERSE:
The smoke slowly rises
The prairie wakes at dawn…
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synthesizers and effects
“It is a peculiar colony” says István Maák, a zoologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. “They are doing the best they can, surrounded by dying.” In 2019, Maák took it upon himself to do something about…
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July 10 - one-hour skirmish. We wanted to take a trip this summer but it ain't happenin'.
Lyrics:
VERSE:
Stuck here at home
With the world on lockdown
Doing my work online
There must be better ways to spend my time
When out gotta…
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July 8 - Used the following songwriting prompt: write a song in the form of a step-by-step process, and use the progression Bm, F#m, G, Em. This was hard at first, and then I came up with something from my own past that I thought might work…
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July 6 - Used a prompt from another writing challege - the 5 in 5 Song Challenge, July 2020. I used 5 of the suggested words: Forgive, Wooden, Coast, Hands, Looking
Lyric:
VERSE:
The wooden figure in the corner quietly
Like an old friend…
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July 5 - First skirmish challenge in a long time, 2 hrs just barely enough time to do a basic demo, fun day! Lyric based on trips we took when the kids were young down to the beach in Destin, Florida.
Lyric:
VERSE:
We used to drive down…
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July 5 - This is actually my first 50/90 song this year, just now got around to doing a quick demo. Used the "Titular" tool on the Fawm Muse page, grabbed the title and ran with it. I immediately thought of the plethora of false information harmfully…
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Generally speaking I like this one, but there are some catches.
1. The vocals for this song, along with two others, were recorded on a day when I just didn't have it. I couldn't hit a pitch if you painted a big target on it.
2. I recorded…
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This is more of a description than a song. It's my contribution to the Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show monthly song writing challenge: "Write a song about your first car."
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WHEN WE GET TO COLORADO
Capo @ 5 in C positions
C G
Thirty one years in this city
Thirty one yers on this street
Fighting in the morning
Fighting at night
This place has the smell of defeat…
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SKINNY GIRLS
Capo @ 3 in G
...and then he said,
I like skinny girls
Toothy girls
Flat chested girls
I like girls with Adam's apples
A mouth full of titty
And a hand full of ass...
A girl with a six pack
is my kind of...
And then…
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I almost like this one. I was into it while I was putting it together (percussion overload, babie!) and playing the rhythm guitar parts was kinda fun. I had a really hard time with the vocals. I just couldn't find the pitches anywhere. Singing…
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Here's another original song that I wrote this year!
I may have gone a little insane with the layering in this one... but I kinda like it so I won't apologise for it lol
Lyrics:
You can take your time, I'll wait for you
Suppose that's all…
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*Talented sensational act popularly know as *HORLAYIN* he was born from A. S. A L. G. A KWARA STATE has released his prayer song title " *BLESSING*" this magic piece was produced by *EM6**
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Rise 49 and two instances of Martina Labs Aalto with effects in harmonic series tuning.
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Trying to get the hang of using hardware synths.
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Two different contact mic recordings; one on a high-tension electricity pylon, the other on a metal bridge frame. Both were processed with the same noise reduction sample, silences removed, then stretched to double length. Submitted to Sound-In…
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I was trying out the new guitar a Harley Benton 12String just like Tims (Greeny's) an its a beauty it sounds great and for just over £200 a bargin to boot. Heres a bit of blues the Harley benton and a fender strat and a wha peddle
I travelled…
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I don't like the chorus in this one at all. Everything else is okay but the chorus... let's just file it under "it seemed like a good idea at the time" and forget all about it.
Guitars are all Gibson ES-335 Pro. Amps on all guitar tracks…
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This was just a twisted and warped little extra I threw on to "The Dark Side of the Moo." Another remix because the original was not the greatest.
Some people will sit down at a piano and duet on "Heart and Soul." In our high school and college…
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Inspired by a drum track from Emily Dolan Davies I tried to produce a cinematic sounding track.
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this is a song I wrote for my girlfriend she loves the song too she was about today and heard me developing the song 000 I had never done a new musical instrument on thumbjam till today- included in this is the new instrument "I love you"
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I don't hate it outright... but I don't really like it either. The chorus is okay, the groove is okay... maybe I just need to re-record it and play better. Maybe just tone down the grunge a little. I don't know. It's not a complete loss, but…
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always liked this song, hats off to Radiohead
Cheers!
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Pink noise setting on Mini-Moog that seems to be malfunctioning slightly (sweeping sounds shouldn't happen). Effected by running it through noise reduction, the profile of which was taken from sounds of a tenor saxophone. Right channel is a reverse…
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So, as a major change from countryside walking...a random leap for no. 6 in this series to visit the Greek Goddess of the Hunt...Artemis. More discordant, but hopefully capturing some drama!!
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Song inspired in a dream.
I woke up one morning,
And this bat was flying around my bed,
I followed him to the living room
And he was hanging upside down under the stairs,
And just before I grabbed him
He began to sing,
He sounded something…
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Back to the Sea is a song about reincarnation. The sea as the sourde of every life.
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The song was written inspired in The Book of Enki. Man talking to his creator.
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a rather punk meets noise statement about the burning of the refugee camp on Lesbos. vocal, guitars, drums, bass.
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My wife used to have a Paint horse named Dandee. When I originally recorded the song, we both said it gave us a picture in our heads of Dandee running along a beach.
Originally recorded in February, 2019 for the RPM Challenge album, "The Dark…
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Nothing special about this one except that it broke my one songwriting challenge rule: I rewrote part of it. The lyrics. I wrote the melody and a set of lyrics that fit late one night and even before I conked out for the night I knew it was…
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I play a directed improvisation in classical finger picking style on my EOB strat with Hall of Fame reverb.
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50/90 runs from July 4 through October 1. Three months. When I work on it I tend to break the project up into four pieces. Songs started and finished in each of the three months, and songs that cross between months. This is the only cross…
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Another improv on the dulcimer. Creating for the new Sound-In event.
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Another Thumbjam thing inspired by Japanese Gagaku music
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This is a studio live rehearsal with Arturia MKII and FLStudio
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I got a mountain dulcimer for my birthday. This is first exploring. Created for this weeks Sound-In Event Textures.
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Monophonic recording of a bowed balanced contact mic (two piezo elements glued onto a small piece of wood and connected to the hot and cold of an XLR mic cable) clamped onto the front of a small acoustic guitar body (no neck or strings).
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Straight-ahead tenor sax with no processing, post or otherwise.
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I did this collab with a chap Stephen Moore on songrafters he did most of the hard work playing and mixing i just donated the lyrics and vocal Thanks fors listening....
Courage is coming with the wind
The dead serenade but no one is listening…
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Poor old Reg everything was going swimmingly until he fell of the wagon, 6 weeks dissapeared and guess what his wife didn't understand and he's out on his ear again, he's got no one to blame but himself but he's gone a bit weird this time…
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Recorded for a one minute demo video for Jasper Guitar Company, LLC, an startup boutique guitar manufacturer in Green Bay, WI.
Matt Hayes is on the lead guitar using the Jasper Mana-TRM.
Check out Jasper at jasperguitarcompany.com.
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VIRUS
Love is a mutating virus
Not unlike the flu
Hopefully you'll be defenseless
When I give it to you...
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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Music written and performed by Mike Smith, also known as Dragonsong.
When Mike first asked me to read this poem, he believed it was written around the time of the Spanish Flu...but, our sources say no. It was most likely written by Kitty O…
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A simple one-track mandolin tune. In fact it's the first tune I ever made on the mandolin. I think it would be better with a bodhran drum accompanying it, but I don't know how to play those!
Maybe someday this will work its way into something…
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I've been reading many novels situated in the South...
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I wrote this one in response to a song writing challenge from the Minnesota Association of Songwriters. The title had to be Mississippi Moon and it had to have a I V VI I II chord progression somewhere in the song. Over 20 writers have signed…
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(I Almost Washed the ) DISHES
I almost washed the dishes
I almost ran the water
Maybe tomorrow
Maybe Saturday
What does it matter to me
I almost washed the dishes..
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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FOOD I MY BELLY
Capo @ 5 in Em
Em) I gotta get some food in my belly (2)
Am) My hands are shaking and I'm feeling weak
B7) I gotta get some food in my belly
I gotta get some food in my belly
I'm feeling woozy gotta get off of my feet…
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EVER ONE I NEED TO TALK TO
Everyone I need to talk to tonight is gone
Some have gone to heaven. Some have gone to hell
Ever one I want to talk to tonight is gone
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an instrumental for the fest on the otherside....Thanks for listening it's been a busy weekend
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FUNKY HEART PROBLEMS w/Hardlock
To all those with the same problem something to smile about .......
Funky Heart Problems
Eggs sausages bacon and beans that’s all I think of eating
That’s all want to eat but I can’t with this diet that I…
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To try and help the grieving process........
Today and tomorrow is all you need
Yesterday seems so far away
Tomorrows here it came today
I look around me to try and find away to get back to yesterday
I don’t know what I believe in…
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Trending song by a young promising act featuring DNext.
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We need to wear 'em... might as well get one that looks cool.
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I should really stop doing this. It's not helping my mental health. But I can't look away...
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Turns out she wasn't actually mad at me, she was just mlemming.
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I liked the way Texturetest turned out, as a modification of a very short sax improvisation, so decided to stretch it even more than that one - ten more times!
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Messing around with AudioDirector, I got it for free in a bundle. I'm very impressed as I can do a whole lot with a whole lot of little.
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Here is peice of mind for mindblowing rap vibe from Steady library, these peice of craft is titled How e go be a song produced by BeatOut Music huncho Mdhazz.
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Originally recorded for my 2019 RPM Challenge album, "The Dark Side of the Moo." This is how I cry musically.
I added some verbs, an additional minor organ line, tweaked the bass, and remixed it on 09.05.20.
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Instant mash for Sound-In featuring James Bailey, Shane Cadman and Roger Sundstrom, mix by Kavin.
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Stretch of a short tenor sax improvisation to see what would come out.
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