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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Arranged: 2004
Arranger: Doug Sparling
I believe this is a traditional tune, but I'm not sure. I learned it from uilleann piper Seamus Ennis or Liam O'Flynn (or both).
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Another song from the archive... Written about a friend who somehow seemed to come out of her general sad manner... Thoughts go back to a lunar eclipse when the girl I was standing next to to watch it (way back in college) disappeared from sight…
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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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Something I did last year - A song about the crazy college days (Or Uni where applicable :) )
Bad Old Days
Everybody's drinking their wine
Driving slow and taking their time
Better off when I sip moonshine
Not rubbing alcohol 'cause I…
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This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year.
The original piano version can be had here
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528
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I found this poem I wrote back before she left. I put music to it and recorded it night before last.
Yeah, the high voice is me too.
LEAVING Key Am
Am Dm
He rattles like a tambourine, his…
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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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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, 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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how do you give a daughter away?
I have no clue...
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an attempt to evoke the urban Brazilian scene - which has a rhythm all its own.
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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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this is a rough mix..going nowhere..so still in the works to finetune it..
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Jonathan Thomas looks at what it means to be an "infant in Christ" and drink "milk"
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Now appearing in the movie "Going Cardboard: A Boardgame Documentary". See http://www.boardgamemovie.com/
A song about a classic boardgame: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13/the-settlers-of-catan
Lyrics:
You find a table and put…
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another noise rythym piece..how do you spell rythym anyways geez, its always underlined.
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As chance had it, I found myself in an acoustically great room, full of cajons! Well, they were unfinished cabinets actually, but they had lovely tones. Since this is the stuff dreams are made of, I had no choice but to seize the opportunity and…
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i am not that guy at the beach.
the first slolo in this song is played on a half scale guitar with four strings. The second part after the pause is played on my accursed 1, theofficial nomenclature for that being lost, it is a full scale, but…
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This song contains some of my best harmonies that are perhaps not the most well executed. My original thought was that this would be a duet, with my voice taking the low part and an alto or mezzo soprano taking the higher part. Anyone want to…
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Guitar: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Written/Recorded: 2006
A "B" side from the "Stray Onto The Path" CD that I never released, in fact, I'd forgotten I'd even recorded it until today when I stumbled across the track. It's one I didn…
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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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Really nothing more than some voice leading practice. Unfortunately, I had no keyboard or orchestral samples when I did this, so I used Lilypond and TiMidity++ and step programmed it in a text editor. I've since bought Cubase and EastWest/QuantumLeap…
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This is a written by Taylor Swift, but we did our own spin off of it and put a little "man" behind it. Hope you like it!
***THIS IS THE SCREAM VERSION!!!! SEE "LOVE STORY" FOR THE ORIGINAL!!!***
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One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.
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Keyboards: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Written/Recorded: 2006
Another short piece I threw together when I had access to a keyboard. If I ever have any extra money, I need to get a keyboard. Though I'm technically inclined, sometimes…
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this song is a mild morning movement i had while daydreaming
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Fan music, plain and simple. I did this a few years ago, excited about the prospect of Casino Royale...
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Entry for Zan's Current Events Compo 2010 on Trax in Space. I was inspired by the news of the solar transit of Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station on may 16. It was covered in global media, and what *really* sparked my interest…
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So there I was, trying hard to complete a big production that I've been working on for ages, and I was getting nowhere. In frustration I started composing this little thing, and it quickly evolved into a nice piece of music all of its own. Funny…
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Spontaneous little ditty about carelessness and always staying on the move. Quite different from the murky, depressing trite I always seem to end up composing.
This started out as a loose solo guitar jam around a simple chord sequence, and…
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This was a warm-up song I did in January 2010 in preparation for my February RPM Project, "Wave". I was just trying to get a vibe going and wasn't focusing on anything lyrically, hence why the title is also the only line in the song.
This is…
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Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission.
Excerpt from a live trio experience. Trios are live, until they are dead. And then, they are just singles.
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Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission.
Trios, as entities, are necessarily unstable.
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Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission.
I liked Kelly's songs. It was strange; dweller and I changed everything, turned them inside out.
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Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission.
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The first time we played this tune, the drummer and I played it, spontaneously, almost exactly as this recording documents. But we'd never heard it before, had no chart, Kelly was just playing it on the bass and singing a bit, and our parts just…
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I wrote this one a few year's back when my daughter was 6 years old. I finally recorded it and uploaded it to her MP3 player for her 12th birthday this year.
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Syd was one of a kind. Recorded live with backing vocal added.
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New instrumental. New mics on the way, so probably not for long.
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Just found out that I can connect our Yamaha Clavinova to the computer. Hell up.
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I thought I'd post my riff notebook as I'm working on writing this time. You know, get feedback, get told whether I'm blatantly ripping off a song (I feel like this one might be ripping off some Opeth), or find other alonetoners who want to work…
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I thought I'd post my riff notebook as I'm working on writing this time. You know, get feedback, get told whether I'm blatantly ripping off a song, or find other alonetoners who want to work with me on them.
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I thought I'd post my riff notebook as I'm working on writing this time. You know, get feedback, get told whether I'm blatantly ripping off a song, or find other alonetoners who want to work with me on them.
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An interview I did with Wayne Vandenlangenberg from The Biggest Loser weight loss show. www.waynevan.webs.com
www.affordableradiovoiceover.com
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The drug companies make up diseases so I can too.
This is somewhere between Sixteen Tons and Coal Tattoo. I don't mean as good a song. I mean the subject...
COAL FEVER Key D
D D sus D D D sus D
When I got the fever I was eight years old…
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Secret longing can last a lifetime...
CLARINDA (Waltz) Capo @ 2 Key G
G ? Cm7 G
Her name was Clarinda, white skin and golden hair
G…
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just a nice blues track i wrote. Brian Bazeley on Bass once again with an awesome Bass line!! Hope you enjoy it.
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2010 Groovy Soca on the Direct Sunshine Riddim coming out of Combination Studios in England.
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So Radiohead and Tortoise walked into a bar...
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Break the law! Unless the law is love . . .
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which can be found here:
http://bit.ly/Pronoia…
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I'm doing a twenty-four hour project. This is the warmup done in the first ninety minutes.
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Just did a bit of self collaboration and stuck a bit of rhythm guitar on Norms excellent track.
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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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Sank a solid 17.5 hours into this one, so there won't be a complete album out of this 24 hour day.
Had the structure floating around for a year; this is my first stab at it. There are definitely huge revisions in store.
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I had not touched my keyboard for a long time - couple months? So it was inspiring to play it again. I set it up in the living room of the new house and played pianoteq on my laptop using a Just Intonation tuning (below). Actually I had to improvise…
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I am really exited about the potential of the digital revolution in audio. I have been at it for about a year and a half. I own Logic, Live8 and use Elysium and gleetchlab3. I am also a bluegrass banjo player, former opera singer and guitar player…
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experimenting as i usually do...messing with pitchshifting...there's a part that almost disorientates you...i really like the way this turned out.........
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a sinister violence...a quiet violence...the violence of tears...the violence of sorrow...the violence of hurt, distrust, betrayal...the violence of loss, coping, longing...the violence in my heart.........
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Live recording 2009.
Cees Borger-Vocals & Bass, Rob Louwers-Drums (Toured with Link Wray, Robert Gordon and recently The Fuzztones on Rock Pallast),
Guitars: John Filippo & Ber van Zanen.
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Part of the sound design for SLUT, by Patricia Cornelius, directed by Paola Unger for Verve Studios at The Dog Theatre, Footscray.
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genetically modified corn starch. pretty dry narcotic in the future, outlaw corn starches have been rivaled with the cost of paying for genetic damage to the human race.
did you know Elena Kagan is a monsanto lawyer?
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Writing a story for/from the music is something I might continue doing:
"He came in today, stoic as ever," told she, the harp. The chords about casually listened in as she told. The high piano entered statefully with pride, an old man in ragged…
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So, I've been working my ass off lately, both at my day job, and spinning tracks at night. Basically, burning the candle at both ends. But, I need to maintain my music, and I've been working on this on and off, few minutes here, a few minutes…
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Great dance tune, title came from those "red light" parties back in the day!
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Jonathan Thomas looks at how Christians should really regard church leaders.
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This is a smooth jazz piece built around Norm Harris' percussion using Garritan Jazz and Big Band sample set with the Aria player and a touch of tonehammer's Francesca sample set. Something Norm and I did last April.
Scored for upright bass…
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Guess it's up for you to decide. Thanks for the visit!
Enjoy!
Doug
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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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Continued Chris Vaisvil radio interview…
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This is for my friend guy..... he likes this type of thing.....
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Just a preview of our newest track. What do you think?
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A 1700 mile road trip culminated in a gig in Amarillo at the 806.
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A 1700 mile road trip culminated in a gig in Amarillo at the 806.
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A 1700 mile road trip culminated in a gig in Amarillo at the 806.
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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Finally, the finishing touches seem to be put on this three-year-old song thanks to some very talented people.
The band is:
Liam (age 13 at the time of recording) on drums
A Girl Named Sam (she's no kid!) with the backing vocals
Genevieve…
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I was just testing out my Boss- BR600 and did a little metal demo.
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This is a new song created using one of Nebulonic ALchemy's guitar tracks in combination with several 'Boop loops' handmade by Hot Wheels Spaulding. I find it interesting that they line up so well, since The were originally two separate songs…
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An homage to the ridiculousness of voting as an effective, individual political statement.
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