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July 15 - Random collab. Laurie sent me a lyric and I sent her a basic idea that wasn't really working that well. She wrote a quick new lyric and it inspired me a lot to revise/revamp my original idea and this is the result. A fun collab and I…
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July 12 - Skirmish. Prompt: Such a thirst. Decided to take that as my first line and go from there, ending up being about the desire to return to normalcy.
VERSE:
Such a thirst
I'm yearning for some normalcy
It’s not coming
Have we been…
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July 11 - The Skirmish writing prompt is from titular...use whatever inspires you all words or just a title?:
"___stubborn routine of the ohio
banks, nails, losers
robinson : twinkle waterfall
five (orpheus)
thought nocturnal___"
I just…
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July 11 - Skirmish. A mix of autobiographical and made-up stuff to the prompt "Too Straight"
VERSE:
My mama told me
Make sure to get an education
Something to fall back on
But I didn't listen
So life's been a bumpy road
Many paths I…
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July 11 - Skirmish. The prompt was - make your own prompt from any of the letters in “thermodynamic.” My first thought was to bale as it seemed to hard. Decided to have a little fun with it and be silly. Didn’t exactly create a prompt, but my…
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July 10 - Another skirmish, messed up the end of the demo but I just gotta let it go for now!
VERSE:
It started out as a drizzle
Dotting the winding dusty road
For many hope began to fizzle
And the dark clouds began to overload
Many…
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July 10 - Skirmish. Refers to you know who.
Lyric:
He's a petulant little child
Ranting, raving mad
Apoplectic in the extreme
To me he looks rather sad
His Twitter feed on fire
With vengeful, spiteful hate
An exasperated urchin…
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July 10 - Skirmish. Got this in right on the hour, had the lyric and basic melody in 30 minutes. Takes me the rest of the time to get a decent take. Fun but nerve-wracking at the end!
VERSE:
The smoke slowly rises
The prairie wakes at dawn…
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July 10 - one-hour skirmish. We wanted to take a trip this summer but it ain't happenin'.
Lyrics:
VERSE:
Stuck here at home
With the world on lockdown
Doing my work online
There must be better ways to spend my time
When out gotta…
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July 8 - Used the following songwriting prompt: write a song in the form of a step-by-step process, and use the progression Bm, F#m, G, Em. This was hard at first, and then I came up with something from my own past that I thought might work…
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July 5 - First skirmish challenge in a long time, 2 hrs just barely enough time to do a basic demo, fun day! Lyric based on trips we took when the kids were young down to the beach in Destin, Florida.
Lyric:
VERSE:
We used to drive down…
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July 5 - This is actually my first 50/90 song this year, just now got around to doing a quick demo. Used the "Titular" tool on the Fawm Muse page, grabbed the title and ran with it. I immediately thought of the plethora of false information harmfully…
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Generally speaking I like this one, but there are some catches.
1. The vocals for this song, along with two others, were recorded on a day when I just didn't have it. I couldn't hit a pitch if you painted a big target on it.
2. I recorded…
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This is more of a description than a song. It's my contribution to the Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show monthly song writing challenge: "Write a song about your first car."
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WHEN WE GET TO COLORADO
Capo @ 5 in C positions
C G
Thirty one years in this city
Thirty one yers on this street
Fighting in the morning
Fighting at night
This place has the smell of defeat…
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SKINNY GIRLS
Capo @ 3 in G
...and then he said,
I like skinny girls
Toothy girls
Flat chested girls
I like girls with Adam's apples
A mouth full of titty
And a hand full of ass...
A girl with a six pack
is my kind of...
And then…
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I almost like this one. I was into it while I was putting it together (percussion overload, babie!) and playing the rhythm guitar parts was kinda fun. I had a really hard time with the vocals. I just couldn't find the pitches anywhere. Singing…
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Here's another original song that I wrote this year!
I may have gone a little insane with the layering in this one... but I kinda like it so I won't apologise for it lol
Lyrics:
You can take your time, I'll wait for you
Suppose that's all…
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*Talented sensational act popularly know as *HORLAYIN* he was born from A. S. A L. G. A KWARA STATE has released his prayer song title " *BLESSING*" this magic piece was produced by *EM6**
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Rise 49 and two instances of Martina Labs Aalto with effects in harmonic series tuning.
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Trying to get the hang of using hardware synths.
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Two different contact mic recordings; one on a high-tension electricity pylon, the other on a metal bridge frame. Both were processed with the same noise reduction sample, silences removed, then stretched to double length. Submitted to Sound-In…
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I was trying out the new guitar a Harley Benton 12String just like Tims (Greeny's) an its a beauty it sounds great and for just over £200 a bargin to boot. Heres a bit of blues the Harley benton and a fender strat and a wha peddle
I travelled…
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I don't like the chorus in this one at all. Everything else is okay but the chorus... let's just file it under "it seemed like a good idea at the time" and forget all about it.
Guitars are all Gibson ES-335 Pro. Amps on all guitar tracks…
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This was just a twisted and warped little extra I threw on to "The Dark Side of the Moo." Another remix because the original was not the greatest.
Some people will sit down at a piano and duet on "Heart and Soul." In our high school and college…
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Inspired by a drum track from Emily Dolan Davies I tried to produce a cinematic sounding track.
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this is a song I wrote for my girlfriend she loves the song too she was about today and heard me developing the song 000 I had never done a new musical instrument on thumbjam till today- included in this is the new instrument "I love you"
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I don't hate it outright... but I don't really like it either. The chorus is okay, the groove is okay... maybe I just need to re-record it and play better. Maybe just tone down the grunge a little. I don't know. It's not a complete loss, but…
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Pink noise setting on Mini-Moog that seems to be malfunctioning slightly (sweeping sounds shouldn't happen). Effected by running it through noise reduction, the profile of which was taken from sounds of a tenor saxophone. Right channel is a reverse…
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So, as a major change from countryside walking...a random leap for no. 6 in this series to visit the Greek Goddess of the Hunt...Artemis. More discordant, but hopefully capturing some drama!!
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Song inspired in a dream.
I woke up one morning,
And this bat was flying around my bed,
I followed him to the living room
And he was hanging upside down under the stairs,
And just before I grabbed him
He began to sing,
He sounded something…
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Back to the Sea is a song about reincarnation. The sea as the sourde of every life.
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The song was written inspired in The Book of Enki. Man talking to his creator.
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a rather punk meets noise statement about the burning of the refugee camp on Lesbos. vocal, guitars, drums, bass.
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My wife used to have a Paint horse named Dandee. When I originally recorded the song, we both said it gave us a picture in our heads of Dandee running along a beach.
Originally recorded in February, 2019 for the RPM Challenge album, "The Dark…
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Nothing special about this one except that it broke my one songwriting challenge rule: I rewrote part of it. The lyrics. I wrote the melody and a set of lyrics that fit late one night and even before I conked out for the night I knew it was…
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I play a directed improvisation in classical finger picking style on my EOB strat with Hall of Fame reverb.
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50/90 runs from July 4 through October 1. Three months. When I work on it I tend to break the project up into four pieces. Songs started and finished in each of the three months, and songs that cross between months. This is the only cross…
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Another improv on the dulcimer. Creating for the new Sound-In event.
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Another Thumbjam thing inspired by Japanese Gagaku music
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This is a studio live rehearsal with Arturia MKII and FLStudio
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I got a mountain dulcimer for my birthday. This is first exploring. Created for this weeks Sound-In Event Textures.
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Monophonic recording of a bowed balanced contact mic (two piezo elements glued onto a small piece of wood and connected to the hot and cold of an XLR mic cable) clamped onto the front of a small acoustic guitar body (no neck or strings).
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Straight-ahead tenor sax with no processing, post or otherwise.
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I did this collab with a chap Stephen Moore on songrafters he did most of the hard work playing and mixing i just donated the lyrics and vocal Thanks fors listening....
Courage is coming with the wind
The dead serenade but no one is listening…
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Poor old Reg everything was going swimmingly until he fell of the wagon, 6 weeks dissapeared and guess what his wife didn't understand and he's out on his ear again, he's got no one to blame but himself but he's gone a bit weird this time…
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Recorded for a one minute demo video for Jasper Guitar Company, LLC, an startup boutique guitar manufacturer in Green Bay, WI.
Matt Hayes is on the lead guitar using the Jasper Mana-TRM.
Check out Jasper at jasperguitarcompany.com.
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VIRUS
Love is a mutating virus
Not unlike the flu
Hopefully you'll be defenseless
When I give it to you...
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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Music written and performed by Mike Smith, also known as Dragonsong.
When Mike first asked me to read this poem, he believed it was written around the time of the Spanish Flu...but, our sources say no. It was most likely written by Kitty O…
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A simple one-track mandolin tune. In fact it's the first tune I ever made on the mandolin. I think it would be better with a bodhran drum accompanying it, but I don't know how to play those!
Maybe someday this will work its way into something…
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I've been reading many novels situated in the South...
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I wrote this one in response to a song writing challenge from the Minnesota Association of Songwriters. The title had to be Mississippi Moon and it had to have a I V VI I II chord progression somewhere in the song. Over 20 writers have signed…
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(I Almost Washed the ) DISHES
I almost washed the dishes
I almost ran the water
Maybe tomorrow
Maybe Saturday
What does it matter to me
I almost washed the dishes..
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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FOOD I MY BELLY
Capo @ 5 in Em
Em) I gotta get some food in my belly (2)
Am) My hands are shaking and I'm feeling weak
B7) I gotta get some food in my belly
I gotta get some food in my belly
I'm feeling woozy gotta get off of my feet…
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an instrumental for the fest on the otherside....Thanks for listening it's been a busy weekend
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FUNKY HEART PROBLEMS w/Hardlock
To all those with the same problem something to smile about .......
Funky Heart Problems
Eggs sausages bacon and beans that’s all I think of eating
That’s all want to eat but I can’t with this diet that I…
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To try and help the grieving process........
Today and tomorrow is all you need
Yesterday seems so far away
Tomorrows here it came today
I look around me to try and find away to get back to yesterday
I don’t know what I believe in…
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Trending song by a young promising act featuring DNext.
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We need to wear 'em... might as well get one that looks cool.
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I should really stop doing this. It's not helping my mental health. But I can't look away...
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Turns out she wasn't actually mad at me, she was just mlemming.
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I liked the way Texturetest turned out, as a modification of a very short sax improvisation, so decided to stretch it even more than that one - ten more times!
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Messing around with AudioDirector, I got it for free in a bundle. I'm very impressed as I can do a whole lot with a whole lot of little.
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Here is peice of mind for mindblowing rap vibe from Steady library, these peice of craft is titled How e go be a song produced by BeatOut Music huncho Mdhazz.
Listen Share & rate the song
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Originally recorded for my 2019 RPM Challenge album, "The Dark Side of the Moo." This is how I cry musically.
I added some verbs, an additional minor organ line, tweaked the bass, and remixed it on 09.05.20.
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Instant mash for Sound-In featuring James Bailey, Shane Cadman and Roger Sundstrom, mix by Kavin.
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Stretch of a short tenor sax improvisation to see what would come out.
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A friend introduced me to Ernest Ranglin and I was inspired seconds later
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I was going to do another instrumental but heard a song at the start so changed direction and came up with this one...
Another day comes
Yesterdays youth seem miles away
As age creeps on day after day
Life isn’t what it used to be
And no…
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Another Pure Data generated piece similar in scope to the last but different pitches selected, again with JI in mind, and some interactive playing in the patch live. For more info on Pure Data an open source visual programming language keen for…
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I piled up a bunch of scraps from all four (!) RPM Challenge 2018 recording projects I was involved in, threw on some effects, and made a weird casserole. :)
Billy C., Sandy C., James C., Kenny T., Bill J., Philip P., Dan H., Robbie R. - Various…
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Chris E. has been a frequent voice of RPM Challenge encouragement for years, and began messing around with FL Studio (formerly FruityLoops) a while ago. He put together some sounds and sent them to me, then I added an 808 and some more sounds…
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Eli and Jonny stepped out for a smoke break, so I ran over behind the drums, Tommy picked up a guitar, and we jammed for a minute. Jonny grabbed the mic when they came back in, and it turned into a Super Jam. :)
Jamie B. - Guitar.
Tommy U…
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Me with my dad and my uncle Billy. The phrase "ugly-ass pine trees of home" had been stuck in my head for a few years, so I finally wrote a song around it.
James C. - Vox.
Billy C. - Dobro, bass.
Kevin C. - Guitar, mandolin, lyrics, songwriting…
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The Sweepers reflecting on whatever the hell "love" is. :)
Bob P. - Bass, vox.
Jamie B. - Guitar.
Eli M. - Guitar.
Jonny P. - Drums
Kevin C. - Recording, mixing.
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Margaret's lovely ode to lost progress and tenuous hope.
Margaret B. - Piano, lead/background vox, lyrics, songwriting.
Robbie R. - Lead guitar.
Kevin C. - Drums, bass, rhythm guitar, recording, mixing.
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Robbie's exploration of real-world isolation and virtual community.
Robbie R. - Guitar, bass, vox, lyrics, songwriting.
Margaret B. - Cat litter deodorizer (shaker).
Kevin C. - Suitcase bass drum, recording, mixing.
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Kenny made us write the intro lyrics at the studio, and then made me say the intro! Yikes!
One of the most sonically dense arrangements we've done. So many tracks!
Kenny T. - Rhythm guitar, Clavinova, lead/background vox, percussion, lyrics…
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Robbie R. - Guitar, bass, vox, songwriting.
Kenny T. - Background vox.
Kevin C. - Drums, background vox, recording, mixing.
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The rest of the Sweepers warming up while Bob was unloading his bass.
Jamie B. - Guitar
Eli M. - Guitar
Jonny P. - Drums
Bob P. - Vox
Tommy U. - Vox
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Jumping letters are so distracting.
Rashi can't take the feedback:)
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Too much fast living and this is where you end up........an instrumental for a fest on the otherside
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A collab with Mike_S over from the otherside at songcrafters on his instrumental track King & Country which he kindly took the lead off for me to play with and i came up with this Thanks Mike
The people like ants looked up and they just…
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Just a shortie for no. 5 - a peaceful ramble in the country......
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It's Lonely on the Moon ©2020 words and music Jeff Cole
A nostalgic memory of youth in the 70's suburban bliss.
Swimming in our giant pool
made of aluminum.
to be that cool
to know again
You'll never see a bluer sky
or smell a greener…
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Another banger from the greatest Artist as known as Kseven the music title is Ni Da Ke, so amazing Track is a likerble stuffs
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I did some work this week again with sine tone oscillators in Pure Data. I'm trying to gain a better understanding of Just Intonation. I had refined this patch like most of my Pure Data work with the idea of creating something live in the patch…
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real
Niels Bohr.... or a Qanon core belief?
4 tracks of guitar with some reverb and such
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The Other Road is really about the roads we take in life , this road or that road, Thanx for tuning in, "G
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I managed to work on 16 songs for this year's 50/90 before I did something strummy in 6/8 time. I've started working on another 21 songs since and I've yet to do another one. That will likely change before today ends. Sorry, strummy songs in…
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I don't like this one. There are no redeeming qualities here at all.
Except for the last three bars.
There was one rhythm guitar here but it was played through two amplifiers. The right speaker is a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The left is…
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I like the melody on this one, and the vocal harmonies work pretty well. It could have benefitted from a competent singer, but I didn't do too much harm. Back in February during the RPM Challenge/FAWM I did a lot of messing with GarageBand percussionists…
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remix of Coelocanth's ThickernThieves with slide guitar
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74 beats per minute. I don't consciously write music in the 70-75 bpm range, but somehow it just always... happens... to... me. It's like my binky. It's like my happy place. There's another personal cliche here too. Back in the early 90's…
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Was messing around this afternoon and came up with this .....
let the love come out and play
Now you tell me you’ve nothing to give
Yeh You tell me, you can’t get that hit
You tell me that you want it
You giving me nothing you don’t want…
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This was all written on the bass - I wanted to get an earthy 70s Rickenbacker bass vibe on this so naturally there's liberal splashes of Moog and Hammond Organ to accompany it.
It's kind of 'prog-lite' and again needs vocals. It's a working…
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The Great Quest to Write a Heavy Rocker in 3/4 Time Continues. Kinda generic, but I like the vibe and the vocal harmonies aren't terrible. I used a couple of different tones for the leads which was also neat.
All of the guitar parts are a…
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Not quite the kind of sounds I was hoping for, but decided to use them anyway. Contact mics placed on a high-tension electrical pylon on a windy day. One mono recording mixed with a stereo recording from a few minutes later. No post processing…
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Baritone ukulele tuned to 4 ratios of 21 tone just intonation starting with root frequency @220. 1/1,3/2,9/5 and 7/5.
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Okay, am I the only person who thinks it's delightfully goofy to play a 12-bar blues in 7/8 time? I think I might be. I keep doing it and I just giggle all the way through. This one isn't that good of an example as I was mentally done with…
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I really enjoy working on these quiet little semi-trippy ballad type things, but then when I listen back a month or two later I can't figure out why I liked it and then I never listen to it again. I can see this song's future.
I put delays…
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Result of experimenting around with some ghostlike effects
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hey .... Cheer up and play some ABBA tunes
Greg Connor Steve Krell Guitars
Off the cuff vocal. slkrell
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The Interstate Highway system was started in the mid-50s at the height of the Baby Boom era. It was a virgin ribbon of highway stretching out in all directions. We couldn't wait to explore it.
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I like this one, even though there's not a lot to it musically. Mix wise, there's tons going on. Four rhythm guitar tracks, five vocal tracks, four lead guitar tracks, and (really) two drum tracks. Oh yeah, and one lonely bass guitar.
I…
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Olonto Toronto is back again, after being quiet for some years, the artist is now back with a controversial song title Corona No Dey Naija, taken inspiration from the legendary Fela anikulapo Kuti, Olonto releases Afro beat track regarding the…
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This is for my MT Bottles, it's a bit naff , ( British slang ) but I love it.
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Not sure of the mix on this one. I thought about putting a flanger onto the bass when it's the only thing playing in the middle of the song. I still might go back and do it.
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 and the amps are all Fender Bassbreaker…
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Nothing really noteworthy about this one except that it's in 7/8 time. If I didn't stop myself I'd write every song in 7/8 time. I just like my rock and roll in screwy time signatures. What's a red head to do, right?
Guitars are all Gibson…
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Last weekend we did this oldie
Hans Nooitgedagt Jr - drums
Erwin B - bass, recording
Bingsolex - lead guitar
KC - vocals, guitar, keys & mix
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Saturday nightlife, hot and swell
In the lower…
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Here is my contribution to the Minnesota Association of Songwriters challenge: Write a song titled "Mississippi Moon" and use this chord progression somewhere in the song (adjust for the Key you are in) "C, G, Am, C, Dm"
You will find D…
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Linnstrument playing a track of Diva (Mondara), Exhale (free-ish 12), percussion and a fretless guitar with effects / occasional ebow.
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Tim Chandler was a tall man with a big heart and a great sense of humor. He was the bassist for a number of bands including Daniel Amos, The Choir, and The Swirling Eddies. He also played bass on sessions and tours for Phil Keaggy, Randy Stonehill…
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Originally recorded for my 2019 RPM Challenge album "The Dark Side of the Moo." I was never really satisfied with it (listen to the original version), so I decided to add some strings and remix it. Much better.
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My latest Soundscape hopefully evokes an atmospheric evening in the desert, as outside the tent the girls make their mournful cries before the local musicians strike up a dance beat.....
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Double tracked cymbal with rubber mallet. I wasn't sure I liked how the first take went, so tried it again. Still couldn't decide which I preferred, so decided to overlap them. Each was recorded in two track mono, so panned them 30% either side…
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https://alonetone.com/vaisvil/tracks/cover-of-ashes-to-ashes
this is the song I karaokied to by Chris Vaisvil
cover song of "Ashes to Ashes" by david bowie
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