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Protest song against anti trans bill HB111 in Alabama's legislature and its sponsor rep. Susan DeBose...a republican of course.
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What is a woman
Oh what is a man
is it biology
is it God's plan
is it God's plan
Is…
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I'm angry these days at the state the US is in and how so many people are perfectly fine with stripping rights from those not like them or for religious reasons.
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Angry, were just Angry
We're So Angry
Just what did we…
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This came out of watching the movie "Wonka" the other night. It was orginally titled Wonka, but the song had other ideas of where to go on the lyrics and thus became "Fairy Tales" of which Wonka is one.
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Fairy Tales
Where…
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Needs reworking to remove Stripped drone/engine ... was enjoying myself too much!
Let the storm break
Let the storm break on me
When balance fails
Please stumble into me
Let the storm break
Let the rain fall hard on me
Not all days…
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I'm feeling pretty lovey lovey today so here's one for the valentines day....and my RPM Challenge album
Theres something in the way you make me feel
Lady you got something that I need
Don’t close the door cause I’m pretty sure its been decreed…
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ambient guitar noises recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
Focused on using the guitar pedal tools
Ibanez DE7 Echo/Delay
Line 6 DL4 MKII
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My Love Song
VERSE ONE: (Richard)
I choose today to sing a love song to You,
LORD, I love how You make me feel.
It’s a beautiful day 'cause I know I’m in Your thoughts,
There’s nowhere I’d rather be.
The thought of You makes me smile…
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ambient guitar noises recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
Focused on using the guitar pedal tools
Ibanez DE7 Echo/Delay
Line 6 DL4 MKII
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ambient guitar noises recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
Focused on using the guitar pedal tools
Ibanez DE7 Echo/Delay
Line 6 DL4 MKII
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Song 6 for my 2024 RPM challenge. Got the guitar and bass out for this one. It's a song with a lot of dissonance and so is kind of weird. But here it is anyways. Definitely not for everyone's ears.
Anything, anything you say…
Anything…
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Song 7 for RPM 2024. I've always wanted to do a song with a one note melody line...here it is! I had my awesome husband join me for some lead guitar parts (which made it that much more fun). Thanks for listening!
It’s not like you
Crossing…
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An analog sun gleams over the digital city, illuminating all its glitchy, imperfect bits and bytes.
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the vacant city
deconstructing itself around me
soulless NPCs
stroll self-same trajectories
eyes vacant
gaze long since died
dead reveries
no thoughts remain inside
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Freesound Sample Used: 250270__niedec__11-minutes-of-city-sounds…
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I woke up from this sleep as somebody else
like a puppet pulling on my own strings
Orbiting around my very head
Alive? Undead?
What does it matter?
We invite you in
To our humble abode
We invite you in
out from the cold
We invite…
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Wyoming is just an old Italian word meaning 'No State Here' -Garfield
Sample Credits - Can I get an AMEN?
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The invaders merely filled the empty space with their presence. The mass mind-wipe had done all the preparatory work for them. It was just a matter of reseeding the empty husks that were left.
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Apollo 11 / NASA [Public Domain…
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Lost in a sigh
A victim of flight
Bare, no thoughts blank stare
too gone to even care
Thought Eater
so lost in anesthesia
bit by bleepin byte
shorting out the lights
Muse Gorger
subdued by cold ambrosia
there's no sleep no mind…
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i t d o e s n ' t c o m p i l e .. . . .. 0 10101
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* Microsoft Kathy Voice
* (Freesound) : 256206_jagadamba_synthesized-singing-voice-note-c-variation-10.wav
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It doesn't compile
I still cannot parse
how I became
this glitchy machine
My mind was scraped clean
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Samples Used: Microsoft Kathy Voice
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The Analog Sun pierces through the blinds and windows of The Digital City, signalling a new day has begun.
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Microkorg S, guitar, Korg Volcas.
Improv jam done in one take, unless I mess up really bad, then I try again.
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Draft recording for RPM Challenge 2024. Recorded on 20 FEB 2024.
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Microkorg S and Korg Volcas, guitar.
More improv on top of improv on top of improv.
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Was kind of in a grumpy mood when I wrote this one. Wrote and recorded pretty much all at once.
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Just had to do this. We've all had to deal with someone like this and in some ways might have wished at least for a moment we were them.
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Yup, my wife is the girl :-} I wish I could have made it sound as good as she looks.
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Just trying to make myself write and this came about.
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Wrote this just after last years RPM. Maybe a little John Prine influence in the lyrics ? Kind of fun :-)
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More layered improv, this time I'm playing the drums.
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Song idea number one for the 2024 RPM Challenge becomes finished song number one.
This might be the only song I like for this year's RPM Challenge. We'll see. Is the mix too reverby? Probably. I like it today but I might not like it tomorrow…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number five becomes completed song number two.
This one is okay. The key change in bar number 66 is my favorite thing about it but I like the chorus too. Not a great song, but probably good enough to make this year…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number two becomes finished song number three.
This one is almost okay. The vocals aren't good and the lead guitars are terrible in places. I am so rusty and I can't seem to shake it off. It really shows here. This…
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I've bombed out of the RPM Challenge... again!. Just can't put together a track anymore. Frick it! Jam time
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And this is all I've got out of my RPM challenge flop... more twiddling on my acoustic guitar.
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Inspired from all the political SNAFU going on in America today. Feels like the American Dream has really always been a lie
What's is there to a life
In the land of the free
and home of the brave
Is there true freedom
To live as they…
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Song # 8 for FAWM 2024
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We all want the truth, right? Right?
#acoustic_guitar #singer_songwriter
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I just got the news
What am I to do
Its all bout fear and panic
It kinda makes me manic
Felling powerless and blue…
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FATHER TAKE THE HIGHEST PLACE
VERSE ONE (John):
Father take the highest place,
First thing in the morning I will sing Your praise.
Glory to You Lord, my voice I will raise,
Oh how I long to see Your face.
Heaven and earth they sing holy…
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Build an impression
Straight brush, curving round
Claude's subtle gestures
Light touch, hence no sound
Heart never opened
Hardly dented
Not a great state
To leave your pillow or your soul
When you ignore me
Then final warnings sound…
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Recorded in 2018, but never originally posted publicly until now. This is a tune about living in Northern California during the wildfires and getting a call from friends that they needed a place to stay as their home was destroyed.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number nine becomes completed song number four.
I'm hovering between "this is okay" and "this is almost okay." I don't hate it. I think it goes to the chorus a few too many times (is that even possible?) and the mix…
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Idea number three for the 2024 RPM Challenge becomes completed song number six.
I am positive that I have written this exact song at least 10 times before. I guess I must like it enough to use it on this year's RPM Challenge album then…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL
Lady you got something that I need
Don’t close the door cause I’m pretty sure its been decreed
That you’ve got love I could set free
If we talk I’m sure you’ll agree
That…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
I LONG FOR THE END OF THE NIGHT
I know the sun wants to shine
once more into this storm of mine
Breaking through to give me a sign
releasing from these chains and setting me free
I’ve been lost on this darkened…
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Idea number four for the 2024 RPM Challenge becomes finished song number seven.
I thought this was going to be a good one. I was digging the riff under the chorus. Nope. This one turned out lame and boring. Next!
The rhythm guitars are…
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Wrote this with help from a high school friend. She was asking me about my writing process and I was talking about the muse and how fickle and sporadic it can be for me and she suggested I write a song about it. So here it 'tis, she also helped…
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I heard them speak to me
in a language I could see
no sounds would touch my ears
what they said was crystal clear
and I know what to do now
I woke up in a dream
in the clouds head full of steam
time to make things right again
so I grab…
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I don't know where I am
my head's spinning round like a ceiling fan
10:30 back in school, no clothes on in the swimming pool
and I know this feeling
I've been this way before
am I dreaming
I've no idea who I am
I'm screaming at the…
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Standing in the rain
I don't feel the cold
soon I'm under water
and I don't need to breathe
You make me happy
and you make me sad
did I imagine it all?
did I make up my life?
Standing in the park
colours make sense to me
brighter…
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I'm floating, I'm falling, I hear the wind is calling me, I'm free
the fires are burning, I'm twisting and I'm turning
black spots come down from the sky
I'm resting on pavements and lawns
I have no favourites
come and have a look at me…
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I don't have the money
I'm barely getting by
I wish I had a job now
I wish that I was high
22 and lonely
I don't know what to do
I wait for time to change me
Into someone new
I always feel the cold
so hard to keep warm
I always feel…
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Now then
I can't listen
As it offends my sensibility, yep
I hold the truth high
Those bears, they need a-baiting
And there's a loom to weave
Show me your intention
Deny the next idea
Show me your intention
Deny the next idea
Check…
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“Party Fears Two” acoustic cover recorded live for an equipment test (cheap and old Rogue guitar, built-in microphone on Pixel 4a cell phone). Piano riff added on GarageBand.
“Party Fears Two” written by MacKenzie/Rankine, originally by The…
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2024 RPM Challenge song idea number eight becomes finished song number nine.
I usually place songs into one of three buckets as I finish mixing them. The A-list bucket is songs that are good enough to make the final album. The B-list is songs…
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Feeling like a pawn in everyone else's life. Kinda of a stream of consciousness thing in writing the lyrics, just wrote down what popped into my head.
Just a pawn in God's world
Just another pretty girl
Just trying to be what she wasn't…
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2024 RPM Challenge song idea number 18 becomes finished song number 11.
This one might make the final album. Then again, it might not. I'm torn. It's okay, but is it okay enough?
Rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Custom. Leads are an ES…
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The 14th song for the 2024 FAWM challenge. A bluesy rocker. A stream of consciousness thing. Rolled tape (aka hit record on my phone) to a blues progression and sang whatever lyrics popped into my head. Its loud and raw, overloaded my phone mic…
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Everything in proper place. Thanks for watching.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 12 becomes finished song number 14.
I can't tell how I feel about this one. Do I hate it or do I mostly not like it. I'm on the fence.
Guitars are a Les Paul Custom for the rhythm tracks and an ES-335 Pro…
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She comes around to steal the day.
When she comes around, she won’t behave.
and all good people kneel and pray.
cause she never frowns at a chance to play.
Planets collide and stars expire.
And I blame that girl for bringing us fire…
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Based on the novel by Sasa Stanisic. Pretty sure this was the first song I wrote on the ukulele.
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There's always something; something, out there...
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I can hear it working. Always working. Toiling away.
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Finally. Time to get back home for a little rest and relaxation. For now at least.
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Recorded in 2001. The notes on the tape case say Moab.
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Recorded in Denver in 2001, then promptly forgotten.
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Recorded in 2006 in Ashland OR. This was meant to be the backing track for a more complete song, of which all I can remember is the line “All I want to do / Is get stoned and read Harper’s”.
Recorded in an airstream trailer.
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Recorded in 2004, in an old cabin in rural NC. I don’t know why the fake accent.
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The Pads of Paddington is a set of 2 pieces (this being the 2nd one). I took inspiration from train sounds/noises.
For this second piece, I used actual recordings of train sounds made by me with my faithful Zoom H1 recorder.
For this piece…
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This is a track that is unapologetically scary and unsettling.
Combination of synths and orchestral instruments, some noises...no drums or percussion.
Don't listen alone in the dark.... You have been warned......
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