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A PICTURE I CAN'T THROW AWAY Key C
Capo @ 4
(Yes. It's a true story. I changed it to 1st person. It was a friend of my brother, Joe's.)
This audio is missing. I will have to find it in the archives or re-record it some day…
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We got together again around the coffee table and the gang helped me record this song I wrote this week.
Greg- Guitar, Vocals
Scott - Mandolin, Vocals
Colin - Bass, Vocals
Colleen - Uke, Vocals
Hope you like it!
NEXT CHAPTER
VERSE…
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A bit of a mess around on an old Elvis song....
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Haven't been about for a while...been busy doing nothing but i had some time this morning to have a strum and this is what i came up with after a bit of pondering.....Thanks for listening
One and one makes two
two in turn makes one
everyone…
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You're always on my mind
Gotta take you with me
Can't leave you behind
Blind to circumstance
If I can get a little more
Gotta take the chance
Flyin' high again
It's do or die
There's no need to pretend
Runnin' from wall to…
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Folk instrumental titled after a place in Missouri where loved ones lie in rest.
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When it's over, start again and keep on rolling.
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I liked this one a lot more before realizing (after all of the tracks were finished) that the guitar part is awfully similar to a Throwing Muses song from the brilliant House Tornado album.
My plan to double all rhythm guitar and vocal parts…
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More lo-fi noodlings for RPM. Featuring 2 year old daughter let loose on a box of instruments, and then messed with in goldwave. Will be a (poorly) hidden track on RPM album.. when there are actual songs on it.
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Steve (SLKrell) and I have been competing over the same *"IMAGINARY"* girlfriend for years now.
And Yep . . . Steve started it. Well she's mine now, at least until Steve writes the next song. Look for Steve's music here:
http://alonetone…
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Double tracked 2 lead parts together on this smooth blues jam and it sounds out of this world.
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Pleasure boats and fishermen
Tugboat pushin three barges wide
Sit on the banks from morn till evening
Wave to the people as they pass me by
Up in Minnesota she’s fast and cold
Walleye fishing just below the dam
Go and catch em til…
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My new album, my first all-jazz effort, is taking longer to complete than I had hoped, due to my plans to set up a proper isolation booth for recording horn parts (sax, bass clarinet, trumpet). But I've been listening to the rhythm section mixes…
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This demo recording turned out particularly well, especially when compared to how most of my MYTHOPOETICA recordings sound. The lead guitar employs an Eastern Folk scale and style of picking, greased with GEM-style Blues butter.
SUPER YOU…
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No more sin or sorrow foolish fancy to a fault
No more dirth upon the land that withers under the assault
No more Babylon behavior bobbing up and down and up
until we drown away each memory scattered from a shattered cup. No more crying for…
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Another song from old pre-garageband RPMs. The arrangement stayed the same this time. I just added some vocal harmonies and added some goofy effects.
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Who says that I define you?
Who says I should label you?
Who says I should shelter you? Who says i should restrict you?
Who says I should limit you? Who says i should hold back you?
There is no user guide.
There is no yellow brick road.
There…
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Have some fun, dance a little, dance some more.
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After a comment, I had to do a quick version of this - includes harmonica sol (but, not so low so that you can't hear it - sorry!)
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Ok, this is the full length version, so far, until the new tweaks have been done, but it's a nice reminder of cool things that can come from improv and jamming. Bass (Pete Burke, i.e. myself) and drums (Marty Boot) recorded from a jam to level…
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Imagine the open road, stretching out before you, your bike or hotrod rolling over the hot pavement as the sun beats down. Times couldn't be any better. Until the engine starts to cough and shudder. Fortunately, you roll into the shade of an…
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For UK people who liked the Testcard in the 70's. Youtube vid attached. Started as a project, sent to Lady Jane who did her magic. Ummed and Arrred about it, and eventually thought "just upload". Enjoy.
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No excuse here.... I just love the Good Wife's voice on this one. From my point of view I tried to get a 50's/60's feel to the song.....
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This is from the Gospel of Luke.
Ave, Maria
Ave, Maria
Ave, Maria
Ave, Maria
From heaven flew Gabriel, angel of God
You were in awe and afraid
Hail, full of grace, he said, you have found favor
To you shall be born the Savior…
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Noodling with the "art guitar" in DADGAD tuning in the Serra sculpture Vortex at the FW MOMA. No fx added, all natural reverb/delay inside the structure.
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I've been teasing Steve (SLKrell) about Rose, from Las Cruces Nevada, ever since he wrote a song about her for Valentines Day a few years ago.
Rosie is a figment of our imagination. I wrote a song about stealing her away from Steve:
http…
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A first alonetone collab! (thats not MMI), featuring amazing guitars by Movement to Contact.
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In 2001 my most recent band, Hoss Williams, recorded a four-song demo, and each of the four bandmembers contributed one song to it. This was mine. It's loosely about growing up in the country and being a teenager ripping around in clapped-out…
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Title track of my new project, as my other group? The Seven Spiders. This song is experimental dub influenced chamber music, I am exploring the possibilities of humour in music trying to make the music itself amusing ... if that makes any sense…
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Apocrypha is a progressive rock song in the sense of Rush more than ELP or Yes. I had come up with the guitar and via my GR-20 the strings - everything else you hear was performed by my long time collaborator Frank Miller (Phantasm777) - so that…
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I was listening to Jesmiaus earlier Trick of your love (RPM2012) and it gave me an idea for my first RPM this year...so thanks Will...... hope you all enjoy this....i did doing it...they say smoking weed can make you schitzophrenic but i’m not…
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Now can you imagine it, it’s Christmas eve and there is no one to give us Christmas as Father Christmas has died and there is no one to take is place what are we gonna do????? What would life be without a Christmas song???
No-one to sing the…
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I have just received the little black songbook through the post and couldn't resist having a go at this one...
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from the album "Que Vive!"
which is circumstance and which is fate
the child with nothing or the one with hate
one may see wrong from right
but the line is hard to follow
even with the right design
where do miracles go when the world’s in…
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In memory of my cousin Mike, nicknamed Shovel Head, because of the Harley Davidson Shovel Head motorcycle he drove.
Lyrics
I can feel the wind blow
Lean into that winding road
Setting Sun against my skin
Shift into that high gear
Get…
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Photo by David Shankbone CC BY
Details here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1392
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Merengues are fast arrangements with a 2/4 beat, originating from the Dominican Republic. The traditional instrumentation includes a "güira" (guiro), which is a percussion instrument that sounds like a scrapper. The Merengue güira is a cylinder…
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A song for a wet day in Sheffield Thanks Johnny.......another one for the Zep album.........I will have to sort out that first verse..........but i hope you enjoy..........
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I Love Drum And Bass.
Grew up on the stuff..
Here is a Nostalgic one...
Peace
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Chris sent this track to me earlier today with the request that I add some percussion to it.
I had something different in mind.
After the first take I was afraid to return it to him, fearing that he would convert it to 23 edo or something…
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i have been listening to some wonderful music this morning here on AT, and it has inspired me to post once again
this is the sister to piano moment #4
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Often I am asked about the difference between "normal" 12 equal tuning and microtonal tuning.
Thanks to a retuning by Gene Ward Smith to meantone tuning (I don't know which) you can compare this famous piece of music in the familiar 12 equal…
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Rock from Atacama desert!
Music & lyrics: Diego Cardenas (Somno Project)
Diego Cardenas: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitars
Pedro Guzman: Vocals
Carmen Paz Nuñez: Bass
John Wooten: Drums
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El vuelo del condor, (the flight of the condor) It's a song i wrote when i was living at Patagonia, i could pass hours watching them flying.
Music: Diego Cardenas (somno project)
Featuring Norm Harris on Percussion!
i hope you like it...
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Over the weekend Reg had gone back to his home town where he come from and met up with a few of his friends from whey back when. He found that he seemed like stranger. He was sitting telling Elvis about his weekend. Elvis felt sorry for Reg because…
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If Ennio Morricone and Dr. Dre smoked a buttload of crack and decided to collaborate, except that one of them thought he was writing a soundtrack for the Godfather Part 11, and the other for Phantom of the Opera, Part 2, The Unwanted Sequel…
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Written by Errol Chugg (music & lyric)
Vocals: Error Chugg
Guitar: Mike Woodford
Organ: Swansong
Drum programming, steel drums, synths: Steffen Offermann
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
A "I wish Winter was over"-song by…
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Finally going to end this RPM with a slop fest.
Pretty disgusted with my efforts. I did have some fun though.
I feel like I just gave birth to a full set of Ludwigs.
High gloss black of course.
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I had a go at channeling Ray Charles for this one, I just forgot to channel his talent.
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This has probably the least effert i've ever put into a song , i was sat at my computer falling asleep , when i had the urge to sing this beautiful George Harrison song , i could'nt be asked to get up and change guitars , so using my PRS Singlecut…
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This is an Acoustic Instrumental for my 2011 RPM Challenge CD. I haven't got a title for the CD yet.
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Well, you are not going to often hear a 70′s metal piece from me. I have to plead affection for genre as it is what I grew up with in my garage band days. In this piece I put to use my stratocaster copy strung up with “Not Even Slinky…
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This time paying homage to grandpa. Did I miss any dead folks out this album?
I often stop and think of William
Up on Skinners Ridge
He passed me on his way back down
As I passed from being a kid
A shame you’d say
But aint that the way
Things…
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2010
Depeche Mode lite
I was going to hire Meatloaf for the ending but it turns out he will NOT work for pancakes... which is what I had heard.
This is one of the prime examples of (early on) being WAY more ambitious than what my ability…
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I wrote this song after me and my boyfriend who planned on getting married broke up. I was in a very desperate state and I believe God gave me the lyrics to this song. It's amazing how His peace brought me through what I thought I couldn't bear.:)
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Felt the need to go back to something more sound driven.
I've been learning a lot of new Jazz chords and wondered what they might sound like as pads. I ended up creating a device chain in Ableton Live featuring Alchemy, Omnisphere, and Absynth…
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A cello improvisation with live looping, recorded after hearing of the passing of a great composer.
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This song was inspired by Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani's (1884-1920) painting with the same title.
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This is my first effort with real bongos. I've been so inspired by Norm's talents, that I had to give it a try. I borrowed a set of bongos from my brother Asa.
http://alonetone.com/asalennon
I had to play 18 holes of golf to get my hands…
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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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I wrote and recorded this song about five years ago. All vocals are mine. I would like to redo this song and change a few of the lyrics...but here it is in its current incarnation.
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I used to cross over railway tracks on my way to the ballfield in college, and though I never knew why, I was always tempted to just start following them.
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Gothic-Doom metal from Russia, all the tracks in this album are instrumental.
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Don’t Talk Much- Perhaps it’s time you got over your big, bad self and moved on.
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Well i gues i was just sitting bored at home in new years even and i came up with the hook , then just worked on it on and off, and ended up with this.
Hope you enjoy it :)
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Have no idea where this one came from. I was strumming away and the words just came out. Seems to be about some kind of wrongdoing in the past. May have been possessed. Thanks again to Gary for helping out on lead..
In sleepy towns through…
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A little something I recorded on a Zoom H4n, acoustic was recorded from built in condensors, strat was recorded plugged into bottom jack using only onboard effects, mixed in Reaper and mastered in Soundforge.
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Some non-guitar silliness. Every instrument is an iPod Touch app except for the drums which is friend Phil on electronic percussion.
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A good take on a middleeastern style theme. Sounds refreshing and with the reiterations of a Middleeastern prayer, it makes itself right at home. I've always wanted to do one song like this.
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And oldie, probably recorded around 2003-2004. All instruments played by P. Brown.
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We all know someone like this. Sometimes I'm like this. Anyway, recorded using my Epiphone semi-hollowbody. I love the gtr sound on this one. Again, it's older, so the sonic quality isn't anywhere near what I do now.
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A joint we made by switching instruments in the band. All live except vocals (one take) and additional keys.
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Background music for a fun father/daughter YouTube video editing collaboration/experiment (embedded here.) My daughter and I filmed and edited the movie, and I wrote the music after hearing some video-game music my daughter wanted me to emulate…
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This is a random, ambient, minimal and free music.
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A tribute to all the beautiful ladies in Sweden...
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This is the last one. Letting go is not something I am good at, but this is the last one.
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You could feel your mother and your father scold,
But you only regret what you fail to behold.
After all, it was a once in a lifetime scene…
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a chill digital beach, whipped up in a 10 minute jam challenge on an autumn afternoon
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streets are empty
phantom skyline
it dreams of people
missing in time
(where did they all go?)
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Track built around these Creative Common 0 samples found on Freesound :
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You’ve got a way to be
all around the island
falling in sound
talking ends here
when the number’s unknown
you’ve got to let go
I’m not on a dollar….
Down on the dock or the field
Falling in step
what we learned is the odds we’ve sown…
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