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This is a track I have started sometime around 2004 and just finished it in 2009.
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Written and Recorded: Feb 07, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
2010 RPM Challenge
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this is about the time i hung out with my friend in the library. we sat on the floor underneath the towering shelves of the dusty poetry section. we're only humans, just two of them. i turned up the reverb. and double tracked one high and one…
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Started out a freestyle... ended up a song for da mixtape.
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"No Doe"
Written, Composed, Recorded & Engineered by BeeOne for HoodBizne$$ Music
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This is inspired by Frippitronics. Frippontroncis is I call non-traditional mood music invented by Robert Fripp master guitarist for King Crimson. It involves loops of sustained guitars, in this case using an e-bow. I usually do one of these…
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And how was *your* Friday night?
Here I try to see just how far I can push 4 chords (that I ended up stripping down to a 1 note bassline).
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This is piece that I recorded while playing in my living room one morning. It's a purely improvised piece. I just put the Mac laptop into record and began playing. I used my Goodall 12 string in standard tuning. I always include improvs when…
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Day #6 and it's still solo piano.
And I think this is the most I've ever written *just* piano before.
I do miss patches and polish, but it's all raw material that could be built into something more later on. Or left alone.
And for once, this…
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Did I mention I'm taping my songwriting sessions?
So I now have about 30 minutes of footage of me totally screwing around at the beginning of this session. Listening to Spotify. Playing melodies by ear and such.
And then I finally decided…
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Well I *had* intended to try doing something different this week.
So technically I succeeded.
It's solo piano again, but I had to teach my left hand how to play this somewhat syncopated bass line, before I could actually compose against it…
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When I uploaded this last night I thought it was a failure, this morning I am not so sure. I've just listened to it again and, while it fails to live up to my expectations when I started, there's something about it that I like.
The initial…
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My lovely little wife and her Father Lee singing a cover of the 1973 gospel tune Dan Schutte. One track, one take in the front room of South House Studios. Some people call it a "living room".
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Track three from the 2010 RPM album "They Are Killers"
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"Farmer's Blow" is redneck rap. Oh yeah, I went there.
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If you're on the run
And your nose has gotta go
Don't grab a tissue
Do the farmer's blow
Just tilt your head
To the side
Then block one nostril
And let it ride
You may think
That…
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My first upload for the 2010 RPM Challenge! I wanted to make a mean-sounding, minimal, instrumental groove track, and this is what I came up with. I tried a bunch of different bass lines, but they all made it sound too busy.
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A track for the 2010 RPM Challenge. There are (3) 12 string acoustic parts, (3) key parts,(2) lead electric guitars and drum-machine tracks. Vocals anyone?
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Played all at once through a little plastic hole (Micro BR), so I know it needs to be redone. I've been down with swine fever for the past few days and have barely been able to hang onto a guitar, so this ought to be a crowd pleaser :) A song…
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Oh yeah. The silly a cappellas are back.
Ideas they are like water
Just floating all along
But you really can't hold on
Ideas they are elusive
You can chase 'em everyday
In the end they get away
So get that old idea
And dust it off
It don't…
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A bit of an experiment for me, but still rock'n'roll.
Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/yoursandmine.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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this is a traditional blues tune originally recorded 77 years ago by the legendary robert johnson . since then everyone from the stones to clapton have had a go at it ,i have tried to bring it back to it's starting point IE: a man , an old cheap…
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My fifth piece for RPM.
Mad funky. Extra goofy.
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This songs reminds me that this is the moment i have. No longer looking for the dawn for the dawn is here.
This is the moment
this is the moment
that i've been waiting for
I've been waiting for
the dawn and the dawn is coming soon
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My opus. By far the longest song I've ever recorded. I tried to make it shorter, but it just didn't work. Sorry. :)
"The Water-Carver" uses a sample from Stereolab's "Changer." (Gane/Sadier)
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somehow this song was meant to be silly, but somehow it sounds deadly serious (see jokes, that's how i roll). track for the 2010 RPM Challenge
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a tricky song to describe, and maybe a little bit odd in structure, but i'm pretty happy with this one.
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I imagine this music playing in a bar sometime in the future, probably in the background while cybernetic bar patrons interface with one another in full view of the world's sensor network.
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Hurray patches?
The melody was the last thing that was written for this.
The piano is a placeholder for whenever I get around to actually writing full lyrics. (I have a few lines written down, but I’m not sure if that’s the direction I want…
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this is a song about the train yards in sulphur springs Ky. back in the day .
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I know it's been a while since I last uploaded, but I have been dealing with alot of stress recently. but, here it is.
AcId is the name of one of my Table Top RPG games that I run with a few of the guys. It's a Post-Apocalyptic set game that…
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based on the stanislaw lem book of the same name.
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not sure how i feel about some of the ideas i'm singing about in this song, but hey, i don't have time to rewrite anything.
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oh it is so much fun trying to decide who's fault it is that my life has turned out so pitiful (hint, it's mine!)
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Lyrics
Dies ist meine Lebenarbeit
Es muss geschutzt werden
Meine Leben arbeiten
Meine ganzen Kampfe, Meine Ideen.
There is no life in the Arcades,
Just turtles walking people on chains.
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My sixth piece for RPM.
Composed on the line between Lydian and Locrian. Also, the beat's never quite where the meter is.
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couple beers, 6 lonely strings, and an electric noise quicker-picker-upper.
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This Valentine’s Day, sing this song to your SO and there’s a good chance they’ll turn into your ex.
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Oy. About 6 hours of work:
1.5 hours to write the lyrics/melody first thing in the morning
1.5 hours figuring out the harmonic progression…
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A ROUGH possible acoustic version of Crux's Polaris (we're aiming to make it for the album)
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one of those 'it was written even before i started' songs that just rolls out like magic
i tried to keep it simple so as not to destroy the vibe
first finished (if unmixed) track for RPM 2010
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An intrumental Track I put together when Thinking about my family.
One Guitar represents my son, one my wife and one me......
Two Versions with Vox (Jim Higgins and Geir Alfsen) are also in existance.. not sure how to link to this site…
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Rough version of my first RPM2010 songs... Hoping to have better vocals if I have time before the end of the month.
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Dizzy Gillespy wrote this a long time ago. Later Jimmy Smith did his own version of it. This is a version by me which is based on Jimmy's version. This was all hand sequenced in the matrix editor in Logic Pro except for me on guitar. Just wanted…
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i've been having dreams about my ex girlfriend...
it's strange to know someone for 8 years and then, one day, decide never to talk them again.
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Not to sell this piece short, but after yesterday's grueling session, I'm just happy to have written anything at all today.
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A song I wrote for my Bride this Valentine Day's. She said it was better than any present. God is Good!
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This is my most angry song.
Sodom And Gamorrah
(c)2010 Terry A. Beckett
How many times have we seen it?
Headline the evening news.
How many faces have been featured
While the tabloids expose the ruse?
How many sweet young things
Have tried…
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Kind of nice, dancey, electro maybe. Sounds a bit like Sigur Ros or the opening theme in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece "2001" at the beginning.
Gear used: Doepfer Dark Energy (for everything)
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Jonathan Thomas looks at the part of Jesus prayer in John 17
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Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut.
Gear used: pure Alesis Micron into Audacity, no post-processing
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I was mad and drunk so...yeah
Gear used: Alesis Micron, Logic Drums
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When i was young i had a Lamborghini Countach poster. I never drove one but this is probably how it feels like.
For those who don't get it: old is cool = old's cool != oldschool
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Something is coming...
Gear used: Alesis Micron, E-mu XL-1
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This track is inspired by the movie "Seven Pounds".
Gear used: Alesis Micron, Dr202, Mic
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A blues-rock song about going up to the big city (Toronto) for work, but feeling terribly homesick for what was left behind.
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This is a far from finished version of a new song. I have lyrics for it, but haven't recorded any vocals yet. I'll repost it when it's a little more completed. For now though, I'm anxious to post it even as it is. Hope you can dig on it.
-Rain
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Acoustic guitar and electric guitar tell the story of a good old-fashioned snow storm.
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I wanted to play more directly with noise of various kinds so this piece focuses less on techniques and fancy plugins and more on selection & arrangement of sounds.
I spent many hours going through Reaktor ensembles I've downloaded searching…
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A Prog-rock style song inspired from a series of vivid dreams that left a lingering impression with me.
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That's the way it goes some days.
I'm very very sorry.
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Synthesizer, guitar, and space echo (Boss RE-20) combine to create controlled noise and keep it musical (that was the goal anyway).
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A prog-rock style song about trying to figure it all out before it is too late.
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A prog-rock style song about looking for answers in dreams.
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A folky ballad about the trials and tribulations that happen during home recording, in this particular case using a Boss microBR.
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Let me tell you all a story, most of it is true,
a strange and twisted…
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Sounded like a bit of discord in paradise to me, so this is how it ended up.
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Flying above the buildings and trees feeling free.
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here's a song about food.
the extravagantly long and noisy intro doesn't really fit the subject matter, or the tone of the last minute, but hey, it's my song. i'll do what i want. :)
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An acoustic guitar instrumental inspired by the sound of a rainy day.
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just a quick little instrumental that i really like...
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This started as a simple piano piece from Osckilo, I took that as a beginning point and added the rest (synth, guitar, drums from Boss microBR), turning it into a prog-rock instrumental.
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this is one i have to stop tweaking - six versions and i still don't get what i hear in my head
would love some crit for this one as it's doing my head in
thanks
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With this sub-1-minute, A-section-only piece, I win FAWM.
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Written and Recorded: Feb 14, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
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I seem to hear this song everywhere,most blues festivals have at least one person perform this classic.
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Most of these songs are brainstorming ideas for my new album .... I like this one..
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Who hasn’t fallen victim to thinking that a piece of “kit” is going to make all the difference in the world? Don’t fall for it people.
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Production notes: Oh yeah, I totally left in a bunch of plosives (PUH-PUH-Plosive) all over the place…
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It's not blues, and it's got more than one note.
Another headbanging one.
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If the synth intro doesn't do anything for you, just wait about two minutes for the main part of the song to start.
Uses two Creative Commons samples from freesound.org:
2523 RHumphries rbh thunder storm
2524 RHumphries rbh thunder 02
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I suppose this is an "ambient chill" piece. It was mainly an excuse to use a marimba sample and an analog synthy sound from my Roland Juno-106.
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A little backwards drum bit, topped with the same drup bit run through various effects.
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Old Paint Ver.II
Continued from Old Paint Version I............
So, I plugged in the cat eater, hit distort and it took on a whole new feel.
I added bass(finger is tore up now), more drums, and low level fuzzed up leads.
The ghost…
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this is a jam that me and two friends did. i am a fan of the chili peppers and hendrix. of course there's more i like but you would definitely hear that in what i am playing on the guitar. let me know what you guys think.
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Again i'd love some feedback
I like the feel and the mix
do the lyrics work?
recorded t'night in an hour after trying all day to get the verse lyrics rammed into another tune
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