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This is the band mix of this song:
https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/playlists/rpm2020---finished-mixes,-so-far/good-people-(coffee-shoppe-mix)
The only note worth making is that unlike almost every other song I worked on this year, the…
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Sweet Christmas, this puppy is a mess....
....and I LOVE it!
There is actually two mixes going on at once here. I set everything for the beginning and end sections without even listening to the middle. Once I had the two mixed where I could…
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This is a last minute bit of guitar goofiness. I own three Gibson guitars and have been wanting to write a silly instrumental that includes all of them. This is it. The rhythm guitar is my '79 ES 335 Pro, the lead on the left is my '18 SG Standard…
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So it has been a while since my last RPM. I felt this song was the best was to reintroduce myself with the insane process that is the RPM Challenge....
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A simple little tune that got stuck in my head. I hope to revisit this one soon and add a couple more layers.
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Waste not want not....finished the final lead take at about 3:45am this morning...almost killed me...
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Laying on your back losing yourself to the stars...
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1980 called...it wants it's synth back. Keepin' those drums in the pocket...
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Haven't felt like this in a while...it's good to be back.
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Whatever "it" is.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
I Got It
Well I woke up this mornin
Water all around
If I hadn’t raised my head good god I woulda drowned
Now I got it
I got it
Yeah I got it and I just can’t give it away…
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You peer out from the diner and see nothing. The further out you gaze, the more dilated the light becomes, leading to an infinite band of seamless white nothing.
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What kind of twisted infinity loop have you managed to get yourself stuck in? Time seems to weave in and out like some kind of Gordian knot.
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The CB Radio in the corner echoes with an idle static, but something sounds peculiar - it's no noise you've ever heard before. There's something intelligent about it, like it's peering out of the speaker and looking right at you.
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I'm not a trick of the shadows. You're the trick of light.
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Well, it tasted like Creamsicle. Perhaps the giant radioactive insignia on the outside of the flask was meant to be a warning or something. After your sixth beer, you tend to ignore stuff like that.
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You're hitchhiking, with no recollection of how you came to be here. A route with an irregular number has never been a positive sign.
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Yeah - don't even think Houdini could get himself out of this mess. Ever tried picking the quantum lock on a wormhole?
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The waking dream ends before it began. Trailing off to quantum uncertainty.
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On an elevator, we exist in a perpetual uncertain state between different floors.
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They try and find a way to reach you, but it's like concrete.
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Or is this some sort of dream? "Sleep come soon, and white away the room."
Perhaps this is a dream you shouldn't be having. Some doors are best left unopened.
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Although they would probably not admit it, writing credits to Carl Barnhardt and Kevin Martin.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
The Vaseline Queen of Abilene
There’s a little town out west of Sabine
Where the wind spins the turbine…
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A Valentine's Day song for my sweetie. Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
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We've all been there. Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
Borborygmas Blues
I was hangin with my honey
Late last night
We heard a sound
And got a terrible fright
It sounded like a tremor
Or a far off beast
But I felt something down…
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Yes I saw a chupacabra.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
Hello Little One
Hello little one
Glad I ran into you
Are you some kinda freak
Or did you escape from a zoo?
Ears like a fox, look like a dog
About as much hair as you'd…
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based on the science fiction story "Ballad of Lost C'Mell" by Cordwainer Smith.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
Lyrics:
Lord Jestocost
She’s a cat and she’s a girl
But she’s not equal in this world
I am lord of all I see
This…
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When I made my demo of this song, Nancy said she really liked the melody of the chorus and that overall it was her favorite tune of mine to date, hence the title.
I thought the first section of the song would be ideal for a sitar, however I…
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The story behind this one is almost the same as "Swamp Thing," only this one spawned lyrics to boot.
Major props to Erika for her fabulous vocal!
Jon and I played the leads. I bookended the track and Jon did everything in between.
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This one is pretty much your basic bad day. I mean hectic, frantic, crazy, pull-your-hair-out, everything's going wrong, Junior puked in class and I crashed the car on the way to get him days. Really bad but survivable.
Make yourself the main…
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Is it surf music? Exotica? Both? Neither? Did Jacques Cousteau have anything to do with this?
Percussion on this one by Cyclops Cow and Sum Gai.
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Conceived in the shower in mid February with the backing track fully recorded less than an hour later. Who doesn't like the Ramones?! Just a fun track to celebrate RPM's 15th anniversary. The lyrics lean toward being tongue-in-cheek. I don't hole…
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I wrote the backing track a couple years ago after watching the documentary "It Might Get Loud." It somehow evolved into a li'l tribute to Bob Dylan (Bob really deserves so much better). The words allude to a number of Dylan's songs: "Like a Rolling…
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I love surf music complete with Fender guitars dripping in lots of spring reverb. This one came out of the clear blue and somehow developed the double-naught spy thing in the process.
Matt plays lead. He's got the surf thing down pat!
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A track over twenty years in the making. I came up with it sitting in front of the TV with an unplugged borrowed Rickenbacker 360 (thanks, Mark). The Santana vibe just happened. I made a four track cassette recording of it just to get it down…
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Swamp Thing is a custom built guitar by Tony Louscher at Luthier's Workshop in Green Bay, WI. I wrote the main riff three years ago and it sounded "swampy" to me. For the 2020 RPM Challenge, I dusted off the little riff and created this tune…
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A simple little ballad. I wrote it thinking of meaningful relationships gone south.
The guitar is a Les Paul Studio through a Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator and Electro-Harmonix Grand Canyon delay.
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Music By Geoff Cox
Lyrics by Ben Blackett and Geoff Cox
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Music by Geoff Cox
Harmonica by Ben Blackett
Lyrics by Ben Blackett and Geoff Cox
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parts may hurt your ears. depending. guitar -> mxr superbadass fuzz -> red panda tensor -> tc electronics mimiq -> behinger audio interface -> cakewalk breverb -> sonitus delay -> your ears
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Sprinkle Me O Lord
Intro
G
————- G ———————— Em
Sprinkle me, O Lord, with hyssop
——-C———— G
and I shall be cleansed;
————- Em————-C
wash me, and I shall be made
Am7b5—————D7
whiter than the snow…
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Haunting/Experimental. Last 3+ minutes slides into obscurity and deepness.
Hope you like it.
Stay healthy.
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ABACHA is a blend of heavy Arewa fused Jiggy Trap with Bars On Bars.
This ballers anthem is for all Arewa kings and lovers of good music in the North and Beyond, as King IB and The Arewa Trap Kart3L gets ready to give you more creative vibes…
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Well, this song showed up right at the end of the recording session, and it reminded me of why I do this - and it was just what I needed.
THANKS FOR COMING
I agreed to meet
I smile and take a seat
To hear you say how I could be a star…
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Well EVERY album needs a love song!
CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOU
Doctor says my numbers aren't where they're suppose to be
Gotta change my eating habits and work out more than once a week
I know I tend to get addicted to things that make me…
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Of all the souvenirs, photos, baseball memorabilia, and musical instruments in my study, the item I value the most is one small 3x5 of my sister and me.
3x5 OF ME AND YOU
I sit with my belongings around me on the shelf
Pictures of my heroes…
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The last of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers died not long ago. Go look them up if you don't know the story. These were some of the finest men to ever serve.
CODE TALKER
Boys were dying across the ocean
Words were stolen, and codes…
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Just a little instrumental.
HYGGE
/ˈh(y)o͞oɡə,ˈho͝oɡə/
noun: hygge
A quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture).
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Wrote this one from an interesting perspective. Found a nice little hook and didn't mess with it - sometimes sparse arranging is best.
TOO LATE
Time had a funny way of passing
That time I first looked in your eyes
I thought it might be…
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Sometimes you just gotta hack away at the acoustic. Oh, and for those of you listening from the New Hampshire coastal music scene, I "borrowed" your documentary title. Had to do it.
SHE'LL NEVER BE MINE
Raised on the water
Born on the…
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Sometimes we don't resist the brightest flame until it's too late.
ACETYLENE
Baby, you burn - I never learn until I'm on fire
A dangerous game - the hottest flame I've ever seen
I can't look away from your blinding display, drawn by desire…
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The seeds of this song were sown years ago. If only those who left knew what they were headed for.
BACK TO SHORE
The sky was so high when you set out from shore
The sun at your back, you were longing for more
When it started to pour…
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A few years back in a Portsmouth, NH bar, I saw a guy sitting across from a girl who was looking at him with such adoration and love - and I'm pretty sure the guy had no idea. This song's for you, young man. I hope you realized what you had…
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There's a line in an Indigo Girls song that says, "If you need to know that you weathered the storm of cruel mortality, a hundred years later I'm sitting here living proof." For me, ever since hearing the words "cruel mortality," they have always…
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Welcome to my RPM album. The line "You might not get what you want - You'll get what you deserve" came to me without me truly understanding it.
By the time I finished recording the album, it all made sense.
WHAT YOU DESERVE
Is this what…
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This one is a turd and a half. I knew it was a loser from the word go but my February rule is everything that can be completed will be. As a result we have a song where the guitars are half assed, the lyrics are half assed, the vocals are half…
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New material to put together and listen to in case we get quarantined:)
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There is almost no snow this year, it appears for some time from nowhere and immediately disappears. I look at this all out the window, and found myself looking more and more often back at the past experience. Is this a sign of age? Hmm, I certainly…
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No one ever rocks in 3/4 time. This is a cheesy attempt to do just that. I woke up one morning with the music for this pretty much complete in my head. I recorded the rhythm guitars and vocals over a simple drum and bass loop. When I went…
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This track is number 4 of my album Space discovery and is a long peacefull track that could put anyone to sleep straigh away ;o) but in fact mean the deep artificial sleep of spationauts while their ship is crossing space for a very long distance…
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This is the third track of my album Space discovery. When spationaut are coming back to their family after a long trip in the innerspace.
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Shinning stars is an old composition I completly reworked adding tracks and also guitars tracks that were not present in the original release. This is the second track of my album Space Discovery available on Bandcamp.
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Track composition inspired by playing Star Citizen video game Spatioport is a track with long introduction with big waves pads sound and my electric guitar and ambiance of Spatioport made with sound of airport vocals and simulation of starships…
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This one was fun to play while I was working on it, but now it's kind of a turd. I don't know if I am going to drop anything from this year's RPM Challenge album, but if I do this is definitely a candidate. The lyrics are cheese, the singing…
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The longuest track of my last album "The long travel" using instrument Korg Kronos2 + Korg Microstation + Novation mininova + electric guitar Blade and additional tracks in Cakewalk Sonar X3.
I also made a video on Youtube with this track that…
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Composed as well on my new Korg Kronos2 + Novation Mininova + Korg Microstation + electric guitar Blade and additional tracks in Cakewalk Sonar X3. I also made a video of this track in Star Citizen game here :
Youtube.com/watch?v=TlOrJSQ0Wg8
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Composed on my new Korg Kronos2 + Novation Mininova + Korg Microstation + electric guitar Blade and additional tracks in Cakewalk Sonar X3.
I made a video of this track in Star Citizen game here : Youtube.com/watch?v=byfYAF54WAo
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The miracle here is that I was able to upload this using the guest wifi at Disney World and it didn't take six days! Nice!
The lyrics are about how I used to be a cynical asshole when it came to love and relationships and then I met my wife…
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I recently watched the 80s horror movie Brain Damage, and did this over the last couple of days.
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Alternate arrangement of this:
https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/deja-vu-(coffee-shoppe-mix)
The guitars are a Les Paul through two Fender Bassbreakers.
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This is the moment when my good time with the saxophone came to an end. It's just a simple 12-bar blues but I had this groovy idea for some pseudo ensemble playing at the beginning of the song and my sax skills were not up to the challenge…
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Alternate arrangement of this song:
https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/ending-forever-(coffee-shoppe-mix)
Electric guitar is a Les Paul through two Fender Bassbreakers.
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I must be nearing the end because all of the playing and singing it getting sloppy. I like the call and response thing in the verse. The punches on the guitars are pretty shitty. I like all the sauce I put on the sax. So it's hit or miss…
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Outstanding gospel rapper Clike, kicks off the new year with a new soung tagged ‘King’.
Clike impressively took to hearings a good delivery on this Hip Hop tone. Download and enjoy…
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I'll settle for less
Then write off all the rest
But then I'm gone.
Someone once said
that they'll sleep when they're dead
but they've got it wrong.
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Fast raising Artist,Producer by name “Emmzee Bright” decide to deliver his First song of the year title “LIKE THIS” in which he feature an Abuja based Artist and also a Producer “Mulla Sounds” to trill the Vibes.
Listen Download Share &…
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an excerpt of the longer song.. that is about 1 hr long.---
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from the m4a file converted to this.. :) enjoy === really weird stuff. IMO..
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Lap steel and Pure Data. Testing setup for live event tomorrow. One of the results here. 7 10 sec loop tables interactive and mixed.
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a very easy and low-fi synthesizer and electronic drum session with vst- synthesizer plug- in.
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I forgot to write an ending for this one. That's why it fades out. Lots of squawky saxophone. I must have been running out of gas when I recorded it. The lower vocal part has a lot of iffy pitches. I'm sort of glissing between notes and I…
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My usual generic mid-tempo rock tune. This was written on the guitar rather than on a midi instrument in GarageBand, so I like it a little for that alone. Really though, the whole thing is worth it for the four bar disco break toward the end…
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I'd intended to try some different things with playing my dizi (Chinese bamboo flute) at very low volume with little breath pressure but listening back to the result it sounds like a series of old-style whistling kettles sequentially coming to…
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Interactive looping in Pure Data, baritone ukulele.
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I woke up this morning with an idea for a strummy riff in my head. I telecommuted to work today and in the couple of hours before I had to punch in to work I wrote all the sections and recorded the rhythm guitars to a guide drum track. During…
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Oddly insistent dissonant ostinato versus guitar leads that end in a scream.
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This is the band mix of this guy:
https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/time's-up-(coffee-shoppe-mix)
The acoustic guitar and the vocals are the same on both mixes. Everything else is different.
Today’s the day
the end of days…
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Another band mix of an acoustic song. I had a hard time getting GarageBand's drummer to fit. I went from way too busy to way too passive to mildly too busy and decided to live with it. I think the problem was probably the 7/4 time signature…
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The plan for the RPM Challenge this year is to do an album with two distinct parts. Side One (if you'll indulge the ancient way of thinking) will be a straight up bar band. The instrumentation will be my normal guitar/bass/drums/vocals. Side…
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I liked this one as I was working on it. Now that it's done... meh. I feel like I am trying to do too much with way too little. It was a nice idea, and I love anything in 7/8, but I don't know about this puppy.
The lyrics are the first time…
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This was the first idea I had for RPM this year. It was the first song to have guitars, the first to have lyrics, the first to have pretty much everything. Why then wasn't it the first to get mixed? I don't know. I kinda like this but maybe…
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Can't remember if I ever uploaded this, it's an old song.
A simple video here.
https://youtu.be/qyqBUXIpDno
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Written for the March Songwriting Challenge "Fast Food" offered by Carl Unbehaun, Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show.
"Let's Dine In" features myself and my sweetheart Rita Beth Connor who has been putting up with my crap, often positioned has…
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Back in 1991 I was a music major at UMass Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. I was in the audio program and I was flunking out because I had zero math skills. I was not flunking out in the instrumental music courses though. I played guitar at…
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This one is a coffee shoppe arrangement but as soon as I had the guitar parts down I thought it would sound good with drums and bass. As soon as I had that thought I decided to do two versions of each acoustic song.
Verse 1
There’s got to…
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Written by Seb James.
Originally by the Callow Saints, who sadly split up last year.
https://soundcloud.com/callowsaints/
For ages I've wanted to do my own version of this song, hope I've done it justice.
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We are one.... and this is love. May we encourage one another as we move along.
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Long story...
or, What the hell is a cajon anyway?
I listen to a podcast about cover bands. One of the hosts is a drummer and he plays in an acoustic group. He said he played his cajon at the acoustic gigs. I thought, what the hell is…
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CALIFORNIA
Capo @ 4 in C/Am
I’m (Am) going back to California
A little place in the San (E) Joaquin
(Am, stepping down A G F# F E)
Where the back pasture builds
To Sierra foothills
And Kaweah tumbles down cool and clean
I’m going back…
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I setup a drum loop and started playing and this is what happened. The verse is a 12-bar, the chorus is the V chord section of a 12-bar. There were a lot of punch ins for both the rhythm guitar and the bass, but there was no copy and paste anywhere…
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This is an alternate mix of an RPM2020 song. I'm hoping half of my album will be arranged for acoustic guitar, hand percussion, and saxophone. I also want to do an alternate mix of each of those songs with the usual three piece rock band arrangement…
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The first RPM2020 song. For this song I setup a click track and just started playing. There are only two phrases and there are punch in's everywhere and many of them are just plain bad.
I don’t believe what I want to believe
I only believe…
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