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Keyboards: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Written/Recorded: 2006
Old music library track. I recorded this with a cheap Yamaha keyboard my step-father gave me. Wish I would have add little more to the repeat of the melody, but I think I…
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Caveat emptor: I did absolutely none of the drumming in this piece.
WORLD PREMIER! FIRST RECORDING OF THIS PATTERN - EVER!
My friend Kokou "Alex" Yemey called me a few days ago with some urgency in his voice: "I must record this before…
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Guitars, mandolin, penny whistle: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2006
From an out of print, self-released CD I put out in 2006 (titled "The Old Stone Bridge" - not the same one as the Old Stone Bridge tracks I've released…
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Guitars, mandolin, keyboards, penny whistle: Doug Sparling
Arranger: Doug Sparling - 2005
Composer: Shaker Hymn
Old demo from the basement. I love this tune and someday I'll do it justice...
IIRC, I recorded and mixed this thing with a…
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The last track that I'm going to upload for a while. I will be re-recording a few songs to release a LP under my own name. Hopefully it'll be good :)
This one is another exploration using loops and delays. I hope you like it!
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A track that I had chalked up as a "throw-away" until a PAL convinced me otherwise. I believe this is an alonetone debut for this one.
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made with an electric guitar, a simple looping device, an amp, and automated volume curves in Garageband
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Here are the foundations. Now all we need are some walls and a roof. And perhaps a nice patio area.
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This is a weird little story about a a green monster .... There'a a monkey reference in this one too !
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Year: 2009
Album: brave new world
This morning coffee cup upload.
Artist's description: Performed synth composition with samples added
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Patrick Trotter painted the song icon
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It seems a lot of you record with open mics and can relate. I record 1 track at a time with usually 4 or 5 tracks. So, Im only asking for about 15 minutes of Silence...IS THIS TOO MUCH TO ASK??? Anyway, my house is so loud, I get a lot of bloopers…
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I’ll make my exit on the wind
Nevermore to pretend
That I’m fine
Yeah, I’m good, so good
At doin’ everything I should
To convince you
That I’m okay for today
An’ I won’t crawl out of my skin
I’ll just pretend
Some days…
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Time to upload an oldie from February - see the video
Stratocastor copy from a kit with lace pickups x 5 through guitar rig 4 against Norm Harris' Illesa in the Pantry!
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What's to say? That we actually have anything to do with what our government does? Ha! Even Woody Guthrie knew the truth. They just leave that verse out of his "anthem".
No Man's Land
Easy come, easy go. Nothing lasts for long
Pay your…
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An improvisation on the resonator, played lap style.
Tuning CGCEBE
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This is from years ago, living in santa fe.
I loved driving around in my little 1980s toyota corolla and listening to cassettes. I loved the way they sounded.
So I took a piano song I was working on, recorded it to cassette, dragged mic…
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Seeing as how it had Fly in the title I used my riff Fly for free, pay to land. It seems to fit.
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still one of my personal faves. - although i'd wish to redo some parts, i'm stuck with this version, since i don't own one of the synths used there anymore..
(original photo)
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Recorded one guitar chords, then improvised the melody...hope it's enjoyable :)
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So, what's "Fly"? This.
Bass Cajon; tambourine; congas; cymbals.
4/4 180bpm.
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We originally wrote this song on a cheap home style kind of a Yamaha keyboard and a pair of Cobra walkie talkies. This studio version is much better. We kept the bleeps from the walkie talkies.
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this song is the result of playing around on one of those free loop internet jungle gyms.
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A long over due changing of the acoustic strings led to this epic production. 40 tracks and 34 plug-ins. Good Gravy that's a boat load of tracks. All kinds of stuff happening.
Enjoy!
you spend your days and your night times
bustin' ass…
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Hey, friends, I'm looking for opinions for this one. I wrote this song some time ago, and it's posted on this site. Today I changed some of the instrumentation and cut down on the keyboards, strings, etc. I'd like to know if you like this or…
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I'm still getting around to re-upping everything I took down last October.... this is one of them, and if I recall correctly, this is the track that was the impetus for Paul & I to start collaborating. (Something I've been missing a lot…
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norm, brian, me - needs leads. My hand is hurting and I need to perform tomorrow - handing this off.
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Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2006
Nothing special, the last track I wrote and recorded for this unfinished CD.
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Pennywhistles: Doug Sparling
Bodhran: David Shaughnessy
Composer: Traditional
Recorded: 2005
A set of reels (the first being "For the Sake of Old Decency," picked up from a Michael Tubridy album of the same name) I put together one evening. You…
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Guitars/Keyboards/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Composer: Traditional
Recorded: 2006
An old English/Scottish folk song. It's very well known, but has a great melody and I'm not ashamed to play it...
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Pennywhistle, Low Whistle, Bar Stool (w/ drums ticks): Doug Sparling
Bodhran: David Shaughnessy
Composer: Traditional
Recorded: 2005
Set of traditional Irish jigs. Don't ask me the names of them, I don't remember (are you seeing a pattern here…
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Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Fiddle: Brent Hoad
Bodhran: David Shaughnnessy
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
Set of three tunes I wrote in 2005. Well, I guess they're hornpipes of sorts...
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Guitar/Mandolin: Doug Sparling
Fiddle: Brent Hoad
Composer: Turlough O'Carolan
Arrangement: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
A couple of Planxties by O'Carolan. For the life of me I don't remember the names of them...one may be Charles O'Conor…
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Rumba Columbia is a traditional Cuban pattern in 6: the "go-to" pattern for 12/8 - if you have only heard one Afro-Cuban rhythm in 12/8, this is probably it. As an energetic Afro-Cuban dance, Rumba was often suppressed and restricted because it…
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Party 2 Nite is a song about you and your lady.
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last eve there was a beautiful moon
dancing in a blue black sky
outside my piano room, it called to me
this tune is a one take playful moment, loosely based on the main theme from the 2nd mov of my piano sonata,,, i only toned down about…
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I locked myself/was snowed into a cabin for a month on the shores of lake Michigan, and turned it into a one man studio. Piblokto is a form of hysteria mainly found in eskimos, sometimes triggered by isolation during which the victim will find…
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This is a microtonal Jazz-ish piece produced with some newly developed techniques.
Norm Harris provides the excellent percussion. I probably could have made it easier on myself by not being so chromatic… but there it is.
The piano, bass…
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Ten Years After cover performed live by Rainbowtruth @ Irish Brigade Fredricksburg, VA circa late 1990's.
Barnett: Guitar/lead vocal
Osborne: Drums/back-up vocal
Duff: Guitar
Bowers: Bass
Cool high-energy take w/ plenty of guitar solos. Decent…
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(Cotton, Williams) Live radio performance on James Madison University's WXJM in Harrisonburg, VA circa 2005.
Osborne: Drums
Cotton: Vocals/Guitar
Williams: Vocals/Guitar
Capponi: Keyboard
Small part of a larger musical work w/ nice dynamics…
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They recon if you go down any mine in the world you'll find a Cornishman there working.
Colin did the vocals and twelve string
Matthew did Balron, whistle, backing vocals ect.
I did the acoustic and backing vocals.
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this is a random song i made when i was bored hope you like it
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This is a 3/16 Bembe on tuned congas, played with mallets. I've arranged it (at the very kind suggestion of Vaisvil & ReefWalker) in a verse/chorus/bridge/capo fashion to get away from a straight pattern - I think this sort of arrangement…
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7 1/2 minute space dance jam. Full of marquee rhythms if marquee is even a rhtyhm term.
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Anything that is uploaded by Louis I have a compulsion to add a bass line too.
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I wrote this in anticipation of seeing my wife after a long absence. The heart had grown fonder . . .
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Guess I've been away a while - something a little difference - distinct parts in harmony, perhaps... or just me experimenting ;-)
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If you have the fever and the only cure is more tambourine, here it is.
MORE TAMBOURINE SOLOS!! (But you should probably wait until you have the house to yourself...)
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I slipped and fell on the pedal, and cant get up cause this jammm is pinning me to the floor!
prepare to get ground up in chrome and sparks..
Hot Wheels Spaulding
Thanks to Kirk and his musician friends, all extremely talented. Or is Kirk solo…
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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), pretty popsters [ButterflyPolite](http://veryusartists.com/butterflypolite) intone a duet about the nameless people in your neighborhood.
The…
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While I'm certain there are those who may be growing weary of scratching, I couldn't resist posting this great mix by Alister Flint, who is truly a master mixologist extraordinaire - he didn't even have individual tracks to work with! Al was too…
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I present the first of 3 guitar solos - Fender Mustang => Roland GR-20 + DoD FX-7 into Alesis mixer and Alesis effects.
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A good friend of mine Harris Kidd filmed a short piece of work starring my other great friend (and my drummer) Zay Brignall, anywaaays he asked if I could make a soundtrack for it soooo I sat down and watched it over and over and started plunking…
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This is one stereo track of 6 conga drums tuned, by ear, to roughly a chromatic scale (I don't know which one - perhaps I've gone micro-tonal!) coupled with a single track of ad-lib quinto (the high drum) and a "shuffle" groove on trap-set…
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This is the song that's responsible for the creation of this band in the first place. It was originally intended to be used with another band of mine, but kept growing and changing, until it no longer suited that band.
Since then, I have a full…
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Slow timpani and triangle and a touch of bass drum Wagner style
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This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples here are from my piece "Granite…
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Norm layed down the excellent percs - Brain did bass - Chris did Sax, organ, elec. piano
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Had two riffs for this one so joined them together. All it needs now is a screaming saxamaphone.
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Noted journalist Sean Farrington demonstrates the best way to get what you want from your interviewees.
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After writing this song about our newly adopted dog, I asked Kavin if he like to play some slide guitar, knowing that he would come up with something terrific... I just had no idea how terrific.
Bandit rides in the back of my truck
A big…
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Licensed for my new "Forever" CD by HFA this song is from "Prince of Persia". It's a song about having faith that all troubling things will turn out allright. All you have to do is believe it will.
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something i wrote for my worst half. who happens to be my better one..
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Having fun this week at my own expense, not my genre but what the heck. I used all the kids that were playing at my house on Monday for the chorus - had a blast.
Collaborators: my kids Dylan, Zack, Ally with Jake Henning , Haley Henning
I…
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This is first rock kind of song by our group "Quartet In Space". I hope you can enjoy with this one.
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Drums: Black Tiger
Synth: Gilgamesh
Guitars: DJ Kujata
Bass: Clones (Vaisvil)
Mixing & Mastering: GMO (Alister Flint)
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Thanks to Colin for writing, performing and producing this song, and for letting me mod it. I think it's a great tune, benefits from an uptempoing. This is Hot Wheels Spaulding reimagining Colin's song 'The View'
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This particular broadcast was talked out about a half hour before I went to my 'You Screwed up' meeting at school. I'd barely woken up and I was ready to Talk Hard about Life (It's capatilized because it's the only one YOU'VE got. That means it…
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somehow i wandered in this very different direction
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Dark Days & Bright Nights is finally outt. Download it on http://www.datpiff.com/Young_Blayz__Dark_Days__Bright_Nights.m137959.html
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This is the first song I uploaded to share on the internet when I first donned the name Alpha_Alpha. Thanks to fellow 'lonetoners and SoOn friends Norm and Vaisvil for contributing to make this song really special!
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Another tune off the micro-ep released for free this summer. This one is in standard tuning and utilizes finger plucking as far as technique.
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A tune composed late in 2009, i've released it as well as other two tracks and some photos from a friend of mine as a micro-ep recently for free! Enjoy!
This is using a tuning I borrowed from The Smashing Pumpkins, which goes E-A-D-G#-B-E. Not…
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i know it's another remix of the same Bolero of fire theme, but I just felt I didn't do it justice. behold this new rock themed track for Bolero of Fire from The Legend of Zelda; Ocarina of Time.
enjoy.
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A track from Amber's new CD album "Forever" is from the film "Yentl" and is licensed for Amber's use on her CD. It is about a young Jewish girl forbidden to enter college (at one time only men were permitted to attend) who dresses up as a man…
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This aria is from a Victor Herbert operetta. It was written over 100 years ago to be sung by an accomplished Coloratura Soprano. Amber Whitney loves singing this music.
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Lyrics
The Good Lifeless has Become Boundless
such that it is written,
went where and windly
with pentacles of pie
like know our way
down the screem
when we find what it
is that can been and be we of their
2 tracks of hobnox…
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Another one I wrote with my acoustic, then filled it out a bit during recording. A sorta love song for my family.
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Mid-flight serenity until that moment, you know those moments im talking about...
In-flight samples recorded by me, drums, guitars.
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Fender Mustang guitar, Roland GR-20, and Fractal Tune Smithy
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Splice your main-brace, and scrape off your barnacles. You'll be jigging along to this one.
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An abuse of Brian Bazeley's Keeping the Peace by Norm Harris and myself.
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