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Got my 70's on...lots of cool loops from Garageband and various effects on my acoustic guitar... Sit back and enjoy!
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This is like a mission for the Doom Patrol
I need a robot body for my brain
Miss Callas calls
the dopamine exhanges
the sound of down
And there is danger everywhere
the scissor men are coming
House of icons
Felt like cards
The brilliant…
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Something I'm working on for RPM 2011. I think this is a really pretty tune, just wish I had the kind of voice for singing it.
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EDIT final version now posted and the page turning is gone but i left this intro as is in case anyone is reading the comments. Does anyone read the comments? or the intro?
i turn a page somewhere in the middle of all this - you'd think i would…
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I wrote this for a friend of mine who was very special to me. It chronicles a period of time in which we both were quite innocent and learning about ourselves. This one bounced around inside of me for many years...This is a just a shadow of what…
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This started as a homegrown piano loop. I cut it to 40 seconds, pasted 4 times, then I added 2 cups of confectioner's sugar, and a dash of salt.
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I heard a great song by a songwriter from the island of Java while eating at an Ethiopian restaurant once. The feel of the song struck a chord in me and several weeks later this song poured out as a response to his beautiful island music.
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Reg is still in the empty bar but this time he decides to sing along and let his Blues out..........he wakes.......
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Reg is in the empty bar, its three in the morning and he sits down and plays the blues...............
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This is a tune I wrote to illustrate how silly the state of world affairs had become. Or maybe I was reading too many old story books...who knows...
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
I just whipped this up in Garage Band using a loop called 'Exotic Sarod' for the main melodic theme (hence the title). The Sarod is an Indian stringed instrument. 'Sarod' means 'beautiful sound' in…
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I created "This is life" in a bad mood. I just picked a nice drumloop and started to improvise on my keyboard and I'm very happy with the harmonies arised from my mind or hands :)
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I wrote this song as one in a series of potential songs to be performed at a friends wedding. I liked this one so much that I modified the lyrics and recorded this version as part of my "Transition" album.
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Written & Recorded: Feb 19, 2011
DADGAD, Capo II
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another hastily made RPM track ;)
Lyrics:
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// dead flowers
// grow from my heart
// grow from the compost of my dreams
// dead flowers
// grow from my wings
// from the compost of my dreams
I just wanted something
something that could…
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I'm sill looking for better lyrics for this but i like listening to it. EDIT i found them - see v2
It's been up at the Challenge site for a few days so i thought it ought to be up here too
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Regs therapy is going well. Reg remembers some stories his Uncle Sam told him as a young man. Reg hasn't had a drink for a month now and his head is starting to clear.He has decided to visit Uncle Sam as it has been quite a few years and hopefully…
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Commemorating the epic struggle taking place in Wisconsin (USA) an improvised piece for orchestral, Indian, Chinese, and African percussion plus 3 synthesizers in harmonic series tuning. (A straight harmonic series from C1 and on up). Performed…
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Got bumps on my body
One under my eye
Been there since birth
I don't know why
Have one on my leg and one on my back
I guess it's better than having a heart attack
Someone said "Know thyself" he was pretty wise
I thought I knew me pretty…
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During therapy Reg starts to look back on his family and one of his favourite Uncles comes to mind.....................
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A live studio take,made in San Francisco's "Different Fur Studio"deep in the heart of the "mission district"..a live audience made it a lot of fun!2010
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You never would have caught me playing this genre a few years ago. WHat the hell happened ??
All the instruments were recorded with an open mic at my house. Which, as you know is always a chaotic place to record :) If you listen hard enough…
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It tells of the perils of dating for the modern werewolf.
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A Highly disappointing arrangement i just threw out there cause i tried it multiple times and gave up. this was the best
The Tempo sucks in the beginning and some notes are really sour. ( and there's some really beautiful parts i messed up that…
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Our big epic number. surely a closer. tried to write words but the organic way the song came about kept me from violating such a sacred thing with something less than stellar. or as organic anyway. every other attempt left me feeling...
fake…
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an odd re-version of "zombie children in the dark" for RPM 2011.
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My daughter Heather and I spent an afternoon walking together around her old neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side; museums, cafes, the park; just talking and walking.
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yar another pokemon remix. better then what i did with the title theme imho.
check it.
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Field Fresh - Texas Cow Patties are yummy little milk chocolate carmel peanut patties that come in this neat little wooden box..... Not really cow shit!
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My uncle used to tap his foot and sing "six feet under, six feet under" and my grandmother
would tell him to stop and say it was bad luck, so I made this jam based on his melody.
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Has Reg found his excuse to have another drink or is this just the start of another drunken escapade...................
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Reg has been with the new women in his life now for a while.She has noticed that Reg has an air of sadness around him.She wants to get to the bottom of it.She starts to ask him why? all the time. Reg wants to keep his secrets of his past to himself…
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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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I watched a few episodes of Metalocalypse and Dethklok inspired me to make this jam. I don't think it turned out "metal" enough though. The harmonized sweep arpeggios were the hardest to play. Hope you like it.
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Angels Missing Bill Sethares for simultaneous 12 equal guitar and faux voices in Sethares Neutral 10 tuning
More pieces from the survey can be found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=493
! E:\Cakewalk\scales\sethares-neutral10.scl
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sethares…
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This song is sort of about making a clean break, killing off the lead character in your story and burying him along with all his sins before the inevitable happens, and the bad guy gets his. Initially came from a jam with my mate Ben Price who…
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Jekyll and Hyde
are both well and alive
and they're living inside of home
Jekyll is kind to me
Smiles all the time to me
Hyde is a wild arrow from a bow
As much as Jekyll makes you smile
If she drinks herself some wine
You'll be the one that…
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A dramatisation of events from school.. hope 'Shaun' never hears this, and if he does, that he likes it in someway, and that things turned out alright in the end..
It was always rainin.
It filled him up
It summed it up
So perfectly
How nothing…
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a person is like a clock
when the hands don’t move anymore
and it doesn’t tick-tock anymore
then you are dead
but the clock is just broken
Sonar X1 recording + mastering
Norm Harris percussion track “Cabinets†See link for details…
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Reg has been caught again by the bottle this time he has nearly gone too far. He paralyzed with drink and hallucinating on the grog he sees his dead Uncle ................
Uncle
The room was spinning, the cartwheels have come,
He’s…
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~Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité et l'Amour~
Simple joys of being in this the seeming imperfect world.
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~Spinning the Squirrel Wheel~
Spinning-spinning our globe, and we're in spin with it, servants of spin. What if we actually just ... snowflakes? We are spinning all our lives, sometimes together but often apart. Is it sad? And, if so, then…
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If you believe the conspiracy theories it ain't over yet. This is a piece from early 2009.
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This is a tale of an anti hero Howard Marks who used the disguise of Mr Nice to cross borders and smuggle huge amounts of drugs, he was caught and sentenced to 25 years. He is now a loveable rogue playing to packed audiences telling tales of…
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My version of the Peter Gunn Theme. I hope you like it.
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Danny Zuko from the motion picture Grease
sung by Sandy Gritt
written by Louis St. Louis and Scott Simon
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A guy I work with got his National Guard call up to go to Iraq a week after he got married. I tried to put myself in his place. Here's what I came up with.
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Reg was in the library reading back issues of the national papers to keep warm because a cold spell had hit the country hard and he had no money for heating. At least he could sit in the library reading until 5pm when it closed. Some strange stories…
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finally uploading this version to demonstrate my method of beat creating because this version sounds better at faster tempo.
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This is about my Nan who in some ways was more like a second mum...
You wont be gone when you leave me,
You wont be gone x 2
Cos while I'm alive til the day I die
You'll linger on when you leave me
You'll linger on
I remember how your…
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Second pretty little interlude.. this time, the light, the hope!
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One of two pretty little interludes for the album, both of which are based around a guitar part Gary did for me. I've put different synth chords behind each of them to cover the two sides of the lady that inspired the full song, Jekyll & Hyde…
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My version of the Beavis and Butthead theme, Wikipedia says new episodes are coming to MTV in 2011! I can't believe it.
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Lyrics
Take the lift and your half way up....
Reach the top and your half way up...
You didn’t see your rise, and Lost your way.....
Looking down on the world your tears fall...
You Missed the Beauty of the climb.
And now you’re…
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~For all those who have parted forever, and those who have parted for a while~
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First of 24 new song I have written. This one is cute, about unrequited love no doubt. #:)
When I say 24 new songs not all will make the cut but most of them will. I will be busy for a good long time!!
Using pointless picks of course.
See my…
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Homegrown loops, cut and pasted.
Drumming with loops. I'm going loopty looooo...
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thought,, id try doing something for valentines day so i chose two Beatles tunes,, amazingly (or not) i found them very difficult for me to personalize, ,,hope all you lovers have a good day and enjoy
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Reg has left re-hab but now he has to fill those sober hours with something, so he has taken to people watching, but like everything in his life he has become addicted to it, listening in on there private conversation as he follows them, watching…
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Nine cans of Guinness....
One beaten up old Guitar.....
An MBR....
A Great night out...
Then Some time time my self...
This is the result...
Peace
T(OsCKilO)
All Boiled Down
Words and Music:Tharek Mokbul
Maybe it’s Something…
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Written and Recorded: February 12, 2011
DADGAD, Capo VII
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there's a song in there somewhere waiting to come out
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you must lose your focus to really learn to ride a bike. I tried to recreate that with this.
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Most of you probably haven’t seen Reg dance, so I should explain it to you.
When Reg takes his “classic moves†to the dance floor everyone else steps aside to just watch – well, that is everyone except a few of the most self confident…
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This is the music to "Was it all worth it" reg wrote and performs this. With out the chatter, so you just might have a different take on it..........
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It was Chris Vaisvils four minutes to midnight that got us thinking. The orchestrated music made us think of the film Platoon and a soldier who has come home, who finds it hard to come to terms with what happened over there, he wakes at Four…
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This particular song is very poignant as Darrel passed away in June 2010. This song was recorded live at JR's in 2008 and is a personal favorite of mine. Darrel's singing and unique style of guitar helped pushed my harmonica playing further than…
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An improvisation with a bunch of keyboards, softsynths, effects and sonar x1
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My own version, pretty far off from the original.
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I was asked to write a theme for a warehouse level of a game that some friends of mine are making.
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I electrified my psaltery and played it in various ways in an tuning adjusted by ear. Probably some JI of some type then. I played along with some modified drum loops and ran it through effects of course.
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Thank you for being you
No one else would do
Thank you for being you
You're all I ask for
Too many nights alone
tonight I'm coming home
open up the wine cos I'm
gonna be with the one who's shown
Me the ways of old
Women into wives…
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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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This is just another middle of the road pile of trot, this time about the amazing instant classics I write, but am so protective of that I daren't let any of you hear. No one will ever hear them. Sorry, but I'm afraid this shite will just have…
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2011
One of my favorite songs I've recorded. An amalgamated tribute to 80's Crimson, Andy Summers and Peter Gabriel.
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This is a song about finding momentary escape from the pain of loss.. and having it interrupted by the realisation that it's the anniversary of the day it all started;
Some days I get up
and I go to the park
and I sit in the dark
and I think…
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Written and Recorded: Feb 10, 2011
DADGAD, Capo V
Sorry, not pretty...
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Recorded Live Aug 23rd 2010 at LB's with my band called Big Daddy and the Blues Hounds featuring Shaun Cooney Slide Guitar, Jim Dyck vocals/guitar, Mark Ammar Drums, Randy Forsberg Bass Gerry Pearson Harmonica
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David Nobes Guitar/Vocals, Gerry Pearson Harmonica, Daryl Schmidt Drums, Gord MacDonald Bass, Simon King Guitar
recorded live @ Castle Rock July 20th 2008
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Unpluggedversion Gerry Pearson Vocals and Harmonica with Jim Dyck on guitar
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Live @ LB's Jan 13th featuring Jim Dyck Vocals/ Guitar, Sheldon Smoke Guitar,Justin Perkins Guitar, Jimmy Guiboche Drums, Andy Nikiforuk Keys, Glen Harder Bass, Gerry Pearson Harp
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I made up the lyrics to the first disconnect (and the music) on the spot of the first take, so for a while I wondered what the hell I sang. I still don't exactly know.
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I got a beat up Hondo guitar from the Salvation Army as a wedding present and pretty much played it every night for the first year of our marriage with headphones on so as not to disturb my wife when she was pregnant. Shortly after our daughter…
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In loving memory of Takeshi Shudo, creator and CEO of the Pokemon franchise. A great mind, a great idea, and a wonderful era of Japanese cartoon/ games, end with his passing. Let it be known that his virtuoso soul was laid to rest for the reason…
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Reg has just gotta get on gone, he wants to move out from his old lady's into reg's place where it's happening, what with Elvis in the cellar and his visiting friends jammin all night, Reg is almost living there anyway. So now he has decided to…
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Tang paid for the rights to use this on a CD, but never did. If the publishing rights holder wants it back, he'll accept refund.
Tangmo himself is gone and there ain't no sunshine in more ways than one. Uploading for him. Enjoy.
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We decided to let Elvis back out of the cellar to record this one as he has been whining and whinging for weeks now to have another go. So here it is for 3.42 minutes Elvis is back in the building.......The music is one of Elvis's own karaoke…
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Thanks to Angie Fights Crime for the drum track!
Jimmy Page On A Serious Downer Jag
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This was my first symphony, written for my girlfriend for our anniversary. It was completed before I turned 18. Not too shabby...
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This one I did for fun. I decided to write a concert band piece. I wrote it months ago, so I'm not sure how long it took. I'd guess somewhere between 3 days and a week.
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