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*Pilón* reveals a Cuban pattern, traditionally played on Timbales, but in this case on Jr. Congas & Congas (with gated reverberation and flanger effect). The rhythm of Pilón is based on the motions of pounding sugar cane.
A new son reveals…
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simple yet fun enjoy.. movie will not render but I am fixing that now.
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I posted this song a few days ago and Bethan liked the music so much she wrote her own words. Here it is, a co-write across the Atlantic.
SITTING BY THE WINDOW, NOTHING TO DO
WAITING FOR THE TIME WHEN THE SUN SHINES THROUGH
THE SUN SHINES…
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My "banjo-centric" arrangement of this old minstrel show tune. I recorded it for backing tracks for my live set. I kind of wanted a fiddle solo, but I don't play fiddle. So in the middle there's a little "fiddle synthesizer" - just a couple of…
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I kinda started off with a synthpop sound in mind, and it became a really fun collection of various synth sounds.
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My arrangement of an American traditional tune with tons of variations on title, lyrics and tune. I went for a little delta feel with some light slide on the guitar, and harmonica along with the banjo... definitely strange but I think it works.
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This is a cover of a song by Pete Loeffler/Chevelle, it was in the movie "Daredevil". I actually used a bass on this song, did it in one recording and didn't miss a beat switching back to guitar!
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Track 2 from GET BRAVE! album. I wrote this hoping to encourage people to really energize their lives. Get involved. To not let money & the status quo define how things should be. Things can be anything.
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Track 1 from the GET BRAVE! album. I wrote this about how we can lose the planet if we don't make changes within our selves & how things are done in this world of industry & product.
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I really don't know what to say. This is what comes out when I sit in front of my computer.
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A friend once took me to a Hindu temple. We sat on the floor for a while as the religious leader chanted and burned incense. This was followed by an uncomfortable tour of the place. Our tour guide then said "You should go get some food.". It was…
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Imagine, if you will, yourself sitting in a Chinese tea house. Cherry blossoms are falling outside and nearby, there is a small stream. You are totally at peace when the tea ceremony commences.
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Noodle: verb. To play an aimless and improvised guitar solo.
Jam: verb. To play improvised music as a group.
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This one sat around for quite a while collecting dust until I picked it up a couple days ago and started tinkering with it. I think I like it.
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My first "crying in your beer" suicide inducer track.
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Jimmy's dad stands beside his son who is overjoyed to be seated on a wooden horse attached to a rotating platform. Old people really seem to like this "diddy".
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A long line of Harleys parked in front, a jukebox full of country music and not a sober customer in the place.
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DISCLAIMER: I have never been to Texas, nor have I done any of the things mentioned in this song. I do not suggest that anyone do these things.
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My albino rat was named tttee and she was cool. Then my friend gave me rats. O.k., now I've got 3 rats. Then they procreated. Having 23 rats was not so cool.
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When employed at Wal-Mart, CSM is the acronym for Cock Sucking Motherfucker.
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An attack made on the pearly gates. Special guest drummer Ron Lockwood.
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A song about what it's like for me to live in your world.
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Deep in the Louisiana bayou, a voodoo priestess swats at small flying shapes. Their normally bright rainbow colors deadened into shades of grey.
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These massive, scaly beasts try their best to tread lightly: a nearly impossible task.
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Flying jaggedly through the air, Abigail barely clings to her broom. the black cat behind her has dug his claws deep into the business end of her broom. Dark and kvlt she may be, but this witch has had a few too many cocktails.
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In the dank darkness, you can just barely make out the shapes of spiders. They can't be spiders, though: They're too big!
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About 30 small faces are upturned to a screen where a film is playing. On the screen, children exit a bus just as they had done a short time before.
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Earl sagged in the saddle. As his faithful horse plodded along, he left a trail of blood behind, darkening the parched desert sand. The empty revolvers in Earl's holsters had dispatched a band of cattle thieves. As the last bit of life drained…
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Most young people will know what this means. If you don't, you're already online so look it up.
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Another quick record for my mother, although I did spend a bit more time on this one.
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The man in black fled across the desert... and the gunslinger followed.
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Sesame Street characters wearing blue/red bandanas, sagging pants, flashing fictitious gang signs and driving Muppet low-riders. Yeah.
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A song about unemployment that I did a bad job of recording, then i had another go and it didn't come out how i wanted so i said OH FORGET IT and so here is the rough version.
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Memories long in music sleeping,
No more sleeping,
No more dumb:
Delicate phantoms softly creeping
Softly back from the old-world come.
Faintest odours around them straying,
Suddenly straying
In chambers dim;
Whispering silks in order…
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Oh mama, there’s a battle in my head
A raging fight
About good and evil
day and night
and wrong and right
Do I follow my instinct
Without reason
Is the truth just a word
For an act of treason
Am I whistling in darkness
Or blinded by the light…
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Still waiting for the bump to hatch.....so i thought there all a sleep i’ll nip down the cellar........well heres a depressing un-trusting one....i always seem to write a real sad song when i’m really happy...i wonder why that is???...anyway i…
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Music and lyrics by me. Hope you enjoy. :)
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In time I'll fall apart,
And you can watch it all with dried up eyes.
Our life revolves around a worsening reflection of how helpless we are.
Lights out.
I don't want to talk about…
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This was written at a time when things weren't going so well for me. This will be my last upload until after the RPM Challenge.
The jeans are worn but they're clean.
The shirt is frayed at the elbows.
The shoes are dull, lost their sheen…
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Guitar
Bruce Hamilton (rhombo)
Steve Layton (I could see through the Earth, through the Sky)
for ImprovFriday 2012-01-15
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Just a quick test of my new mic and recording setup.
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Fieldrecording,Soundscaping
Paul Muller (Moonset)
Kawol Samarkind (before dawn)
Steve Layton (I could see through the Earth, through the Sky)
J.C. Combs (Hey Jude Variation)
for ImprovFriday 2012-01-15
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here at southend-on-sea
where we used to walk with you
on the sand & the mud & the clay
that an ancient science
said we were all made out of
and here at southend-on-sea
my old man
old man river
old father thames
and old father…
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juno di cheap strat copy and recorded on the boss micro br sober.
well hallelujah
i don't believe it
it's so peculiar
it's so peculiar
well bless me jesus
i've not seen that before
our eyes decieve us
our eyes decieve us
when you…
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[ also on youtube at: http://youtu.be/G4dD4L5WqdQ ]
fabulous song by the brilliant late robert calvert from my favourite album of his, Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
I see myself a Hero
While one wings falls away
And the dial…
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Soundscaping,Keyboard
Steve Moyes (A Forecast)
Benjamin Smith (Ben.improv.Jan.9.2012)
Kawol Samarkind (Cindy's blues #1)
Bruce Hamilton (rhombo)
for ImprovFriday 2012-01-14
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I found a picture in my mother's
high school yearbook that demanded
I explain my reaction to myself.
This is what i came up with.
OH, JIMMY Capo @ 3 Key C
(slow) C Em F…
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I was practicing my scale and found the waw waw Fx so played with that too along with the bass then Elvis in soul mode stepped with a request.....
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Ayah in Focus: “…do not kill yourselves, indeed God is merciful with you .” [4:29]
Summary: If each of us knew when we would die, we would do all that we could to prevent it. If each of us knew how we would die, we would avoid that cause. Many…
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A story about the search for leader. People, independent as they are, often look for someone to tell them what to do. In their quest they will often go for a person who was just passing by and was never planing on leading anyone ... Things get…
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Here's a song I recorded a couple of months ago when I had the flu ... as the voice reveals :)
Recorded early in the morning,in the bathroom, using the built-in mics on my boss br800.
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A commemorative song for the people of Fellujah in Iraq which bore the brunt of the Allied invasion during the second Gulf War after the countries freedom fighters, or 'insurgents' made a stand there against the British and 'United States' forces.
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Written for a group of friends I had the pleasure of getting to know one year in southern Germany. A graduating class from the Black Forest Academy.
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Admitting I'd probably never own a Sea Plane, I decided to put one in a song and find out what might have happened.
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