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It only took four songs for me to start writing lyrics about being worried about finishing RPM on time. Typical.
This was originally just a few separate 8 bar phrases. Normally I'd spread them out and create some sort of song form out of…
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An original composition. The Moors refer to the North Yorks Moors in the UK which has a fine stretch of heather moorland which looks magnificent when the heather is in bloom in late August/Early September
Instrumentation: CG Anglo Concertina…
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Track 8 for the RPM 2015 album Cold Ground Was My Bed
For the great Joni Mitchell of course.
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7- so sick
8- sick day
9- deep shit and so sick
10- sick!!!
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Easy song to play, mostly second fret strings up and down the strings.. Also contains D and G chords
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This is me actually playing an acoustic parlor guitar. Just something I made up, may sound crappy because its recorded via my cell phone.
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I got touched by an article I read about an Irish chap that saw a girl on a plane he fell in love with at first sight (ha, I never knew that existed !!!) He could not forget about her, so decided to do a “Sherlock Holmes” and was determent to…
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I spent a good three hours quickly putting this rough raw testing track together from scratch, here the very first trial take, just to see what it could be like. I'm still not sure what rhytm to go for, I'm sure by the time I finish it, it'll…
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Acoustic first take recording including all my natural mistakes of a song made many years ago, as I keep telling myself, one day I will make an upbeat backing track for it and see what comes out of it....hmmm.... one day yeah....
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An original song I made a while ago, but never found the time to actually record it. I had to make do though, because my little recorder started to play up, so I was struggling getting the tracks recorded, then it suddenly packed up and I had…
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The music you hear I created myself and played by myself, apart from the drums. I called this song "The Rain Began" it's basically about a couple where the bloke cheated, so she told him where to go, but he kept coming back ( full of regret…
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This is an IDEA or blueprint for the solo of a song I wrote called the same 12 steps. It's just a snippet and it's unmixed but it's just so pretty to me. This was one take on each track (backing/lead) but I think alot of the reason it turned…
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This song is about several people I grew up with in the holler. They were quite old and set in their ways. I couple of these people were born in the 1800's
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I Saw It Today
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Dancin' here at the end of the world,
we're just dancin' here
I saw it today it was there for me,
it was there for me to see
That's the way it has to be
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with guitar by Michael "Iggy" McAdams
They Don't Let Go
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They don't let go
no they don't let go
you think you'll walk away
They don't let go
no they don't let go
no matter what you pay
Don't no they don't
no they never let go…
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I wrote this song as a teen. It still gets me.
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This is written about quite a few musicians I have run into along the path.
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Muriel Jeanne Skinner promised that if it were possible she would come back from the dead to
tell me about the afterlife. She has not returned..
Opened the window to let some air flow through
A bird flew in and landed in my living room
Something…
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I'LL NEVER SAY I LOVE YOU AGAIN - Capo @ 5
Em Am Em
I'll never say, "I love you," again
Em Am B
I believe in love without end
G D
And I know…
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This Song is definitely rock and roll leaning.
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In one hour or less - with mallets.
I guess I'm just the guy to do the mechanical, electronic, energized, futuristic version :)
The end is the best part.
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150211 Tiggy Acworth Feat Mark Barnwell on Spanish guitar.
It always feels so good when we're together.
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Well look what Gene started... I decided to put my own thoughts on this one, and look what weirdness popped into my head this fine evening.... Thanks for the fun idea Gene!!!
Here are the lyrics:
How To Assemble An Android
© 2015 Colleen…
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for Gene's contest...great title and inspiration!!
“How To Assemble Your Android”
Yesterday a box of parts came to my front door
I thought she came assembled, ready to be my whore
Tore the box apart and to no one’s surprise I was missing…
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A song with a long story (born in 1995, go figure!). Perceivable influences: Doors, Notting Hillbillies, Animals... Such long making combines, I think, my serious melancholy of those old days + a few thousands of hours of practice and 'stay cool…
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Here is my contribution to Gene's Challenge. Find it here:
http://alonetone.com/koehl/tracks/songwriting-challenge-1
How to Assemble Your Android
How to assemble your android
With pitfalls that you should avoid
Like send in the…
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Screwing around my electronic guitar. Usually I try to make something that sounds good,. Or a new riffs. I played a riffriff in my practice from walk this way by aerosmith
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Just me screwing around playing my acoustic with sadder sounding chords
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Don't let me down
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Like so many times before
I know there'll be so many more
Don't let me down
Don't let me down
I know my enemy by name
Survival is a deadly game
Don't let me down
Don't let me down
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Something for RPM. This piece of filler features a transaction between myself and my 2 year old daughter at her pretend shop. I was the 'custer', she was the 'shoppy keeper', and I was encouraged to ask her 'howzamuchit?'
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As requested, here are the lyrics.
On the night stand is a clock
counting down the waning hours
'til the fiery fingers of the dawn come crawling through
Burning eyes in morning sun
the engine turns more slowly now
driving down a silent…
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This is my second piece for the RPM challenge... And it's a big milestone for me... the first time I ever played my own instrument along with it! It's rough, but you gotta keep trying and start somewhere, right? Greg Connor... you'll understand…
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this was something i threw together last year after RPM 2k14, but i never finished it.
i love the original!
http://alonetone.com/wng801/tracks/world-1
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Full moon, full of mystery
Full moon, shadows thru the trees
I can feel your spell, I’m beggin at you please
So long I been straight and true
No wrong has come into view
I can feel that dark side, all because of you
Way down…
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Just a quick jam on the iPad. Multitrack app, MididrumPro app, Ampkit app. Apogee Jam interface. Uploaded to Protools for adding Vox later. Bass was done live on Marshall JMP 1 preamp into marshall amp. Hammond was added later as well.
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Mellow Jeremy - Oceanic Moments.
From the album Sometimes.
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Mellow Jeremy - Return.
From the album Sometimes.
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One of the biggest projects of 2014, this is the track I'm the most proud of at the moment! It was started 11.07.2014 as an attempt to re-create the melody I heard and then it grew in length.. This is when I realized it sounds just the way I wanted…
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Whiling away a few of hours with this ditti. Can't say who this was about, but no-one on this site knows her.
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Built this jam around the bass line to Miles Davis's tune "Bitches Brew." In some places I tried to get my lead tone to sound like a trumpet.
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from the album 'ZERO'
with Alex Moody on Vocals
lover cease
and desist what you say
cause there's a ton of trouble
coming your way
lover be strong
it's gonna be a crazy ride
but when it all hits the fan
i'll be the one with the plan…
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Steve (SLKrell) and I have been competing over the same *"IMAGINARY"* girlfriend for years now.
And Yep . . . Steve started it. Well she's mine now, at least until Steve writes the next song. Look for Steve's music here:
http://alonetone…
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from the album "ZERO"
featuring Meg Radley with Tess Savigear on vocals
tic, of the clock marches forward
wait, for the bell to chime noon
patience, I can't tell when it's coming
think, that it has to be soon
wasting all my time counting…
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This is another Prime Meridian song. I wanna say late 1997 or early 1998. We tended to write songs in bunches, but I don't think so in this case. If I remember correctly, this one just sort of fell into place somehow. We were noodling around…
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We wrote this one in... I wanna say... 1998? Had we ever moved beyond Maria's basement I would have pushed to get this released as a single. I thought it was our best shot at a hit, even if my lyrics were just god awful.
The guitars here…
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Dancing for dimes, donuts and dollars. From the juke joints to the church halls to the halls of power, still she dances, even as the music grows weary.
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Come, see how she dances in the fullness of her life.
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another piece done with Jeff Larson's Mobius looping software. The idea here was minimal akin to Robert Fripp frippertronics of many years ago.
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As a warm up for the RPM Challenge I have gotten into the habit of digging up old mostly forgotten songs from my carefree youth and recording new demos. This year seems to be mostly focused on a band I played in between 1997 and 2000. This song…
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another piece done with Mobius this evening or early morning...
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a return to using the computer based looper Mobius this evening. I use it for a while then break away. Have found it very inspiring this evening, this is 8 tracks 6 violin and 2 guitar.
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Grateful Dead cover by Throwing Bones
From live rehearsal Jan 11, 2015 - Warm up
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Augmented major-seventh-chord drones with electronic percussion.
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Four short improvs with the little Martin. Recorded with the R-09 handheld. But I wasn't holding it. :)
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Inspired by Last Week's Winter Storm where the only people out driving around in it were the people trying to prove Darwin's theory of Natural Selection.
Vocal addition by Colleen Dillon. Colleen also suggested the topic *"Winter Tune…
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Cover of dumb ways to die. Vocals Michelle Worthy age 6.
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Playing the same melody with different instruments
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It's so dark
she can't sleep
She needs more
ice in her water
She lost her smile
It went to Nashville
So she sent
me her address
I didn't know
if I should answer
or go to her
I could call a taxi
Too much wine
Too much coffee
Too…
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This version was an effort to make it into a country song... an "effort."
Florencia Di Concilio is a composer who lives in Paris. Among other things, she writes music for movies. One of the movies she wrote music for is DARK BLOOD, the last…
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A new song I've been working on with a message to love the most important person in your life... YOU! Thanks to Randy Cox for his beautiful piano.
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I wrote this song for those the people who lost their gf or bf because of their own mistakes.
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Synth, trance, hip hop whatever. No vocals, just messing around with Music Maker and Toxic Biohazard Akai mini stuff....
Happy New Year everyone, may it be more musical
and less violent than 2014.
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This is a more poppy and dissonant version of a song I made a year prior.
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And another, a left over scrap from days gone by. Merry Christmas, you weird, weird people.
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An old (one of the many) projects that remained unfinished, until now. From 2011.
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Field recordings of moving trains from the Detunized ‘Passing Trains’ collection processed and arranged to bring out the rhythms that emerge and morph through different patterns.
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Call this one the surprise, bonus track for the 2014 RPM Holiday Challenge. I hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas!
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First Remix: Aero Chord-Surface Empiracy Remix
Original Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrCKvKXvN2c
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Intermittences is about memories coming and going, sometimes hurting. It is about ups and downs.
This part is about watching life instead of living it.
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"THE TOMMY HOOKER BAND is a regular Wednesday night act at Pearl's Dance Hall and Saloon in the Fort Worth Stockyards and he packs the house – everyone loves him."
http://tommyhooker.com/Tommy_Hooker/Home.html
https://www…
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We are 'Echo the Aftermath', an original hard rock band based out of Raleigh, NC. We recently completed our first EP and would love to have your opinion on the work. We're a relatively new project but each member has a solid resume from the recent…
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Recorded live in a friends' garage studio. Added vocals later.
Billy:drums
Eric:bass
Dennis:acoustic guitar
Glenn:1st lead and rhythm guitar
Me:2nd lead, Rhythm guitar and vocals
©2006
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Rog - voice, synths, electric guitar
Graeme - bass, acoustic guitar
Recorded Nov/Dec 2014.
Written by Howard Blake.
Rog and Graeme also make up two-fifths of Manchester band Vanity Pages.
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This one is a mess. Everything is too busy. The mix includes massive compression everywhere because I did a crappy job recording things. During the mix I changed the bass sound, changed the drum sound, went from having the two rhythm guitars…
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A short piece for each of the classic elements: earth, water, air & fire.
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A scene from the computer-generated opera "The Shortbread Rocketship", generated for NaOpGenMo 2014. Listen at your own risk! For more information, see:
https://github.com/cpressey/The-Shortbread-Rocketship
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A scene from the computer-generated opera "The Shortbread Rocketship", generated for NaOpGenMo 2014. Listen at your own risk! For more information, see:
https://github.com/cpressey/The-Shortbread-Rocketship
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A scene from the computer-generated opera "The Shortbread Rocketship", generated for NaOpGenMo 2014. Listen at your own risk! For more information, see:
https://github.com/cpressey/The-Shortbread-Rocketship
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A scene from the computer-generated opera "The Shortbread Rocketship", generated for NaOpGenMo 2014. Listen at your own risk! For more information, see:
https://github.com/cpressey/The-Shortbread-Rocketship
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A scene from the computer-generated opera "The Shortbread Rocketship", generated for NaOpGenMo 2014. Listen at your own risk! For more information, see:
https://github.com/cpressey/The-Shortbread-Rocketship
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A scene from the computer-generated opera "The Shortbread Rocketship", generated for NaOpGenMo 2014. Listen at your own risk! For more information, see:
https://github.com/cpressey/The-Shortbread-Rocketship
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