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If you can't guess where I got this one, well . . .
(c) 2012 T.A.Beckett
Do you know me?
No credit card have I.
You might not know my name
But look me in the eye.
Do you know me?
The Stones didn't sing about me.
Lucifer is not my name.
No…
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I will stop with the depressing songs after this one - this is mostly an instrumental.
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Howl 041412
I created this for the film DARK BLOOD.
The film River Phoenix was working on when he died.
Watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO2QpASUcIY
(C)2012 Royal T Music
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I edited the original because it was a bit long and it didn't need to be that length, so I chopped the 'crap' bits out, they had served their purpose.
The Vagrant Suite
Well the streets are always crowded
So I got myself a little place
All my…
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Gothica Vamp
Romance is not dead, She is tied to my bed,
She is asleep, and then she's awake,
There in the darkness her demon awaits
I'll take her where ... and whenever I want
Submissive and silent, faithful and free
It is her…
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Acoustic punk song, about 'one of those days' and being in 'one of those moods'.
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The Legend of Munga Brown lives on!! Andy has the idea to write a whole book about the Life of our friend Munga Brown. He sent me the lyrics and I wrote the music and recorded all instruments and vocals
Lyrics:
Munga dances down the street
dancing…
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Pop song about being single, going out to clubs, etc
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Lyrics:
You think you know what you’re talking about
You get your way when you scream and shout
Look all around, you’ll find someone to blame
I’m just a pawn in your little game
I thought you were special, that was my mistake
You thought…
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Based on the Doctor Who song, "This is Gallifrey," with a MLP twist.
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My very first chicken song and probley my last!
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My contribution to ImprovFriday 5th - 7th of April. Spoken words are by Nightingale
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My first acrostic prompt, requiring the word "Hope" to be spelled out by the first letter of the lines. Found in the chorus:
Hands don't fail me now
Oh, just a little tighter
Please hold on, hold on to
Everything
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17 Dynes is an improvisation with a 17 note per octave electric guitar that was heavily modified in Melodyne Editor 2.0 DNA. A Dyne is a unit of measure for surface tension.
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Not sure what inspired me to write this. It's about a rich lady who loses everything. It's not about anyone I know, I was just trying to write a song not about myself for once.
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A really drastic revamp of an old song. Crank it up I say !!!
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Title is a lyric by The Mars Volta (The Whip Hand). Seemed succinct as an intro track leading to Foreboding.
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i wrote this in 81 originally called - battlecry. but i updated it to a sci fi type armageddon story. a video would have went well with this but, maybe some day. all explosions, firepower, helicopter sounds and all battle sounds did on keys…
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What if the three little pigs played a baseball game against the big bad wolf and his friends?
(c)2012 T.A.Beckett
The Pigville nine were losing
That sunny afternoon.
If they didn't mount a rally
The game would be oversoon.
Willie the…
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this was hard to find something different from the original which is perfect just the way it is. but i did it anyway, so there.
the original is here.
http://alonetone.com/colingarvey/tracks/still-raining
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this took a while, but it's done, so there.
here's the original.
http://alonetone.com/garyfox8/tracks/saved-2
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“Second chance”: (Richard Hardrick)
I passed out.
The new journey will begin and I'm still here,
All for an angular brightness.
They try to wake me up.
I left the ground
floating and smiling with the bright light, al fin
in front of…
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Probably a self explanatory track. I'm anxious at times, but I seem to be doing OK.
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Dedicated to big fish in small ponds everywhere. Keep reaching for that rainbow!
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A Re-recording of a song I wrote 5 years ago, slowly but surely I'm getting through my old songs.....
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This is not a White Zombie rip-off. It's an homage to Mortal! Loving our new software!
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Part of American Irish experience, now mostly lost
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Original song kind of in response the Pussycat Dolls song.
I'd like to dedicate this to Eddie Van Halen, for being such a massive inspiration to a generation. If you're reading this Eddie, thanks. And please don't sue me for stealing your riffs.
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Gary Fox helped me learn how to sing harmony with myself.
Capo 4
E - D - C
C - D
Do you remember
Those times we spent alone?
Walking hand in hand
Skimming stones
Watching the stars
Hiding from our friends
Those summer nights
We hoped would…
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I grew up in the 80's. Can you tell?
Em7 - Bm7 - Am7 - Bm7
Heading out on the floor
Act like you've been here before
Eyes are watching from all around
To see what's up with the new kid in town
Is it true that he has all the moves?
Even the…
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When I was a music major one of my friends had a family which ran a funeral home - a well paid profession seeing that they had several cars, maids and butlers - and spent a few nights there. (We tended to stay up to the early am debating…
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I mope about my problems, and then realize how insignificant they are compared to people who aren't as well off. And that my life is relatively excellent.
Then I end up feeling really bad, but at least not whiny.
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Apparently this song is the quintessential Gary Fox sound. That's probably because it's done with a special guitar with a special tuning. Anyway, my favorite part of the song is the mid-section. This is a "listen loud in the dark" sort of song.
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A rather flat version of an original instumental jam played live as a four piece in the studio.we played reserved compared to normal renditions. others wanted this on the album, i voted no. we made our 35 minutes. thank god!
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Here's a recent poem of mine, set over a bed of house...
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details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2193
NOTE: meantone refers to a tuning method, not the guitar tone.
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a short progressive piece welcoming music of dreams
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I put locking tuners and flat wound chrome strings on my 17 edo axe. Oh and I quieted the hum quite a bit. There will be more coming. Been a busy week - I think this is the first music I've made all week. I'm outta practice. A whirl with the whammy…
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Broken, stumbling, beat up, a bit detuned. Appropriate.
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After the tragic events of the last few days, I felt compelled to upload an old song I wrote in 2007.Tragically a young Soldier girl was killed in action in Iraq. She was just 19 years of age. I had to have a rant !!! I apologize in advance if…
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Random mischief. Ableton died halfway, so couldn't mix drums and bass properly. Ofcourse, then I rage and delete every Ableton file on the laptop. Heh, TMI.
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A remix of this tune by a guy who really knows how to mix tracks proper...Andy found a producer type guy that liked this song but thought the mix was really bad...so I sent him all the individual tracks and this is what he came up with I think…
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March, the beginning of spring. We have snow, frost and wind. Hope dies last. Or: don't dies at all *(underline your choice)*
Also:
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin…
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Dont try and dance to this,your'l break your neck!
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A song I wrote about my Granddaughter, Lola, about 4 years ago. Different music from the original, good old Open G tuning !!!
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Richard Sanderson melodeon
Chris Vaisvil 5 string bass
more information http://jproc.ca/rrp/rrp2/coverdale.html
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The Broken Cathedral of Christchurch is an ambient poly-tuning piece using 11, 12, and 19 notes to the octave. The instruments used are a Korg MS2000 synthesizer, 19 edo electric guitar (several tracks), and 5 string bass – all with liberal…
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Originalversionen af In This Age, skrevet af Alchemy, og senere genindspillet til Alchemy-pladen "Complacency Kills": http://spaendstigmusik.wordpress.com/bands/alchemy/complacency-kills/
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A song I wrote when I was about 19 years old. I never thought it was good enough to record. Maybe I was wrong!
I float around in a pool of slime
I can't be seen with the naked ey
You know it's gonna be lotsa fun
To munch out on a bacterium…
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Featuring Mark Hubbard & Duma, on didj & percussion respectively, this one begins as the most traditionally structured piece on the album. But don't get used to it, it doesn't last long... just enough to ease you into the formlessness…
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in 11/8 meter at 176 BPM if you are so inclined to add to this..
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I wrote this to be sung by a dear, now-departed friend who sadly committed suicide while working on a new album of very exciting material. I have a whole mess of "dead Kevin" songs which are in the wrong key, which I've been avoiding like the…
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About twenty billion years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Roland's D50 was new, I found this patch called "spanisheart" and plunked down a new-agey tune. Which I promptly forgot about for years. Every now and then, I catch myself playing…
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From the vault of early computer recordings. It was in WAV format til I converted it to mp3. $10 LabTech mic,brand new strings.
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Ditty #10 for RPMC. I really had a hard time trying to come up with the final track, so I fell back on the old loop/delay/ebow improv formula, which I had hoped to avoid on this album. Kind of acoustic Breaking Light. Well it crossed the finish…
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Another really old song from the early 90s. My lyrics were very obtuse back then (or just plain nonsensical).
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A pop song about on-lane dating. Inspired by a friend, not auto-biographical. Not one of my best.
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The is a song a wrote a long time ago, circa 1993, before I know how to write songs. Recorded 1999.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Oh, more songs from my torrid past! Written about a very angry young woman who kept making excuses about her excuses.
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I wrote this about a very-now-ex-girlfriend somewhere back in the '90s. People seem to like it (actually, there's been a comparison to Duncan Sheik made several times by several people - I'll take it!) Essentially me being pissy :)
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My friend Vyv requested I write a song about penguins, so here it is. (well, it doesn't say much about penguins - but it does mention them!)
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This is a song about questions, especially after experiencing the loss of someone special.....here are the lyrics:
Down past the bridge
By Saint Peter‘s church
She hums a prayer
Her eyes blue and bare
She’s longing for comfort…
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A HOUSE CALLED BROKEN
youre in a house and your wasting away
youre in a house and its long long lonely day
youre in a house that you cant wait to forget
youre in a house all broken a little lie you tell yourself
but when it falls to pieces…
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Written in 2002; played to death 2003-4; retired in 2005. Feels good to bring this one back from the dead.
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were all going to be dead one day ...... what do we care?................
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Part of The Kitchen Sink, AMUC's RPM 2012 album.
If you like what you hear, you can also find the entire Kitchen Sink album as a playlist, with everything in the correct order.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
It's technically "Tobias The Battery-Powered Hermit", but the field wasn't long enough. =)
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
It started out as a tribute to the old sci-fi movie, "The Quiet Earth", and became something else.
Freesound samples used:
42190__digifishmusic__siiiilence.wav
20765__radian__sorrysorry…
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From RPM 2012 album, "The Kitchen Sink"
First track - title comes from an unintended vocal sample.
2/26/12 MPT: I already uploaded a fresh copy. I wanted it to sound like a vocal ensemble in a dumpster, but I might have initially gone overkill…
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Revisiting this track too. For some unknown reason, the church across the street from my former abode occasionally rang their bell at 7:30 in the morning. Not every Sunday. Come to think, Sunday wasn't the exclusive day either. At any rate…
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Re-recording of an old song I'd originally written for an even older band, Buckle. I think Buckle's been done now for almost eighteen years, so it may be safe to dust this off now and expose it to light again.
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from the dusty dance halls of the past a reverie
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played on my PS3 guitar midi controller
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2161
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#6 on my rpm 2012 cd "American Impressionist"
sort of my take on what might happen if Bach met the Fonzz
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a riff idea for the title track to "Standing Machine"
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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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Blah, Blah, blah, - (pause) Blah, blah, blah, blah!!
I can't take it no mo'. I'm buggin' out.
Oooooo! look at all the pretty colors.
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You can watch the video related to this song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1_NaAoiLU&list=UU6ZCGmT1WphdMDQbIZT0peg&index=1&feature=plcp
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I've never felt such a need to apologize for a track as this one. Take that as a warning.
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You know I'm diggin' and scratchin' when I start
sounding like Jimmy Buffet elevator musak :)
Oooooo the delightful chaos of RPM
This has 2 percussion loops, midi drums, midi fretless bass, some midi strings, synths, and piano, 2 gallons of…
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no11 in my ukelele songs and the album is done the other 11 are here
http://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=14378.0
the cracks begin to show
fault lines appearing
what once lay below
has come to the surface
shake rattle and roll…
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I could have sworn I uploaded this here before but... I sure can't find it.
4 track cassette
fender mustang
MXR distortion+
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tell no one a story or describe this music for this is the inner depths of a wormhole in a sleep pyramid
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I'm not really sure how this came about, I borrowed some lyrics from Angie Fights Crime and added a reggae sound and a remix to "The Surreal Age of the Naked Lemon" which I'm doing for the Rmp challenge and this sort of popped out ...
The…
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