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Don't refrain
Have no regrets
You've made your choice
On how it ends
And this is what you want to say
time to explain away to friends
Our time is up
For what we have
For what we do
It’s blind to blind
We’ll have to bear
Our testimony has to withstand…
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Another strictly me-and-an-acoustic track. Mostly about a kind-of-unstable girl I knew way back before I knew better.
Now I know better! Good closer.
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Just Passin’ Thru
(t boudreau)
Take whatever you want from me (babe)
Take all that you need
I need to lighten my load lately
To a certain degree
Tokens only are slowing me down
There’s a lot of luggage in life
Chatter scattered across…
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Michael and Theodore
(C Maiorano)
Remembering things we did, hell we were just kids
The best was yet to come, thinking back makes me feel numb
Why?
Broken homes made us family, we shared our drink merrily
Dealt with things our own way…
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Onward
(c maiorano)
The message they send us
Conform or be tortured
If it's left up to us
We can only do wrong
But we'll trust in our fortunes
Progress moves onward
Straight ahead
Immortally strong
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Home-Made Rock n Roll
( t boudreau)
I want to tell ya about my baby
She does a little kitchen dance
She turns up my heat
And grease's down my sheets
And she can rattle my pots n pans
She can start with a slow simmer
And turn it up…
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Based on a trip to Italy while reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman series...my drummer(s) bailed on me at the last minute..so no drums here...boo hoo but maybe in the future
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My last rpm song - based on the police log in a local paper. The writer must have been feeling poetic - more than half of these are word for word and the rest were slightly changed to fit the rhyming scheme.
My incomparable musicians:
Dobro…
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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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i tell K.G. that this one is like the allman brothers and bruce springsteen doing a tune together. another kick ass K.G. tune. we played this thing alot and nailed this take live!
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this was one of our first takes of the month. still in search of a mix at this point in the month. my personal low point because i forgot my lyric notes and really cut my words short and didnt sing or deliver well. i highly believe in moving on…
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Featuring Norm Harris on Percussion
http://alonetone.com/norm
Norm is playing his piece:
"Groove For All Hallows"
http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/groove-for-all-hallows
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An adaptation of a traditional, with words by Robert Burns.
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I was planning on doing a theme-based rpm this year on outer space, but didn't manage to get all the rpm songs to fit. I've been reading a lot of Stanislaw Lem - probably my favorite science fiction author - and dedicate this to him. His books…
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Watching events unfold in Syria...I can't imagine what its like...to all those caught in the crossfires throughout the world...hang in there...
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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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Don't look if your going to feel guilty........
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This tune is 3 years in the making... Thanks to B1 in Seattle, Washington, USA for the music... Vocals by CMOR... Music by B1
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played on my PS3 guitar midi controller
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2161
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A tune about one of my favorite activities. This is one of the songs form my soon to be completed RPM Challenge 2012 submission. Special guest Steve Litras providing the blazing guitar solo.
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a riff idea for the title track to "Standing Machine"
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I really wish I had the voice for this one... it could use a good singer.
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a pleasant song about being hopelessly in denial
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RPM2012 Preview ... drop D tuning ... this time I started with a click track so I was able to add some synth ... enjoy ... lyrics:
The cat's in the yard
The flowers in bloom
The sunshine is out
The boys in their rooms …
Can they tell where…
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Something else I'm playing around with for RPM 2012.
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Lyrics:
Here's a dance that even you can do,
Cos you don't have to move more than your wrist.
It so simple that it requires
Even less coordination than the twist.
You can squirm about all you want,
Or you can stand real still, just like…
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will i ram/jesmiaus/cryptic meadow 's "mosquito summer killing" bye bye remix
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I finally got my trumpet out, after 35 years of it being stashed away ... another draft from RPM2012 ... enjoy ... lyrics below:
When I was just shy of 17
The days were short, the nights were kings
We stayed awake to sing a song
We never thought…
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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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My hands are trembling. It’s about to begin.
Slow and predictable, the waves vibrate the ground. The entry is innocuous enough, like a distant bass rumble of a party 3 blocks away, but it seeps inside. And thus begins the delight.
Wait, why…
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my tribute to a very underrated, underappreciated band. 40 yrs ago thier self titled lp came out, and i cover one from the lp as a tribute on thier 40th anniversary. im not a lead guitarist, and a new singer, so please bear with me on that.
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An RPM demo that sounds like it's slowly breaking down...
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A song of love, loss, and unrelenting hatred for those pin-striped S.O.B.'s.
WARNING: You might hear an occasional F-bomb.
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I find it difficult to believe this is all Midi instruments.
The Midi guitars, bass & leads, I ran through amp sims.
The drums are all Midi. 7 tracks.
Kicker, snare, 2 tom tracks, high hat, tambourine, and a cowbell.
All done on the keys…
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a little play on words with it being written/improv'd on the spot lyrically about starting out with a lovey dubby love song and turned out well like this!
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Another one from the Hip Hop menu. I need a rapper. Anyone? Lo C? Heavy D? Old G?
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I think this song is about falling in love ... the way attraction can be a sort of a shortcut ... and the way real love feels.
I'm working on this track as part of my RPM/2012 effort. This version is simply the first cut recorded on my iPhone…
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Sometimes it comes down to the simple pleasures of life.
Written by Greg Connor
Lyrics:
Hop into my Lincoln Continental
Head on down to the greasy spoon
Table or booth is inconsequential
Long as I can find some room
Waitress coming with a…
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It's a small song about a blurred childhood memory of a night in the woods when a wild boar made us run home in panic.
The monster came through the ground
Across the glade we ran
There was a sense we felt again - never felt again.
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Japanese Ghost House Boat was my contribution to the ImprovFriday “For Japan” earthquake relief CD release with proceeds donated to the Red Cross. It is in 17 notes per octave. Since its been about a year I thought I could release it now as…
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Frank Miller (phantasm777) added excellent vocals and drums - I like it much better this way - hope you do too! (still 17 equal tuning)
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Hi, this is my first publicly released track, please do comment, stating what you like, what you don't. enjoy!
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Song #2 for the RPMC. My goal is to have 12 short tunes (1-3 minutes long), so I need to pick up the pace.
Again, quartal tuning on the top 3 unison pairs of the 12 string. I've been listening to Ralph Towner's Blue Sun, hence the title.
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Another one for the RPM this one on the £16 Special....hope you enjoy...
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Well i didn't think the lyrics fitted the tune first time round so here's the second attempt............more a song from the miss spent youth that the man today......
ONE OF THEM DAYS (Lyrics)
The sunrise screams my mind wide awake
My head so…
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My RPM challenge this year: acoustic guitar instrumental album with no more than three tracks on each tune (ok, maybe four!)
This one is a single track with no overdubs. On the 12 string, the 4th,5th and 6th string pairs are tuned a fourth apart.
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Also just for storage purposes.
A track I made in high school when I was 16 or 17 with my sax buddy Matt Nelson.
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Also just for storage purposes.
A track I made in high school when I was 16 or 17 with my sax buddy Matt Nelson who is currently touring with tUnE-YaRdS.
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I was asked to come up with some gritty microtonal guitar. This is an out-take from that session.
17 Indulgences is a solo guitar piece in 17 edo featuring acoustic feedback, echo and a bluesy sort of point of view but does wander here and…
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An acoustic version of the song which always seemed to be the most popular among anyone who ever saw Winter Jargon play live as a three piece. This is the song in it's stripped back form, minus all the guitar solo's at the end. 'What you are…
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The original studio recorded version of 'Distinctly Average' can be found here: http://winterjargon.bandcamp.com/track/distinctly-average
This is another song inspired by the Dresden Dolls / Punk - Cabaret music and was written around the same…
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I was listening to Jesmiaus earlier Trick of your love (RPM2012) and it gave me an idea for my first RPM this year...so thanks Will...... hope you all enjoy this....i did doing it...they say smoking weed can make you schitzophrenic but i’m not…
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Nice harmony with my wife Pauline. If I remember I wrote this in 1975 during the monsoon season in Okinawa, Japan
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Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry.
Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…
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Act 1 Scene 1 The Disco - this is music from my musical, the opening scene which is set in a disco (nightclub - if you are under 40!!). It explores the different perceptions of the club in a pseudo-political and economic view. Mr Evol - the…
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A rock song, in 17 notes per octave. Yes there is an echo of Buddy Holly... Lyrics, and chords and bass here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2071
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A company that sells high-quality 'dreams' for those that cannot dream, is threatened by
competitors who cheapen the experience for mass consumption.
There are so many interesting elements in this story that can applied to our current world…
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Sometimes society gets wrapped up in their own routine, failing to notice the sheer beauty that surrounds them on a daily basis, until a moment of chance changes everything.
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The old Blues man came down the cellar tonight and wanted to sing some Elvis and this is what we cam up with hope you enjoy......
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Puddleglum and the Queen of the Underworld
Imagine that there is no sun but only candlelight
Imagine that there are no stars to see when it is dark
Show me what you mean by that
I think your lion is just a cat
A great big cat
Imagine that
Mesmerized…
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This is a classical finger picked blues / classical guitar solo hybrid with lexicon reverberation and freeze pedal. There is some sloppiness. The idea was to push myself in playing and what I was playing melodically and harmonically.
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Mike sent me an email yesterday with this mp3....
I added the bass and the piano.
LG
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After the late naps
I can't get up, as should I?
Where I... Who am I?
Sounds comes, closer,
Ah! - here it is, my world,
Lovely, clear and simple
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...the state after summer sleep before I (you) have any thoughts, or, more precisely, about…
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Russian folk song, arranged for a trio. Zelko Krakan - violin, Kira Van Dausen - cello, and me - guitar.
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Just thinking about Happiness. Thinking about how she said she was leaving because she wanted to be happy.
HAPPY Key - C walking down...
Happy is the anvil as the hammer strikes the blade
A fleeting spark that fades as the memory is made…
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Name inspired by an episode of Sliders, song has nothing to do with the episode and is pretty self explanatory.
Features Gilly (http://alonetone.com/toolniner) on lead axe pumping out some sexy licks.
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Inspired by Voyager's recordings of Jupiter as it passed by. Check it out on youtube for more info.
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Inspired by and very very loosely based on a movie I watched that was made in the 30's about a naive small town guy that moved to Hollywood to make it big.
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A sci-fi-ish song about the sun burning out and the universe expanding to the point where it tears itself apart.
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An old guy checking into his deathbed and coming to terms with it.
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Always liked this song, and needed an excuse to record the tremolo built into my Mesa Boogie
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Recorded from an Android Phone to my youtube channel back to my pc hard drive to export in a cover medly of :
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles
Garden's Tale (English Only) - Volbeat
Sympathy - Rare Bird
i'm still practicing these…
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Recorded with friends at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Oregon in 2006 or 2007. Far from a track of much worth, but uploaded here for posterity and sharing of what I find to be a fairly amusing recording.
For the record I'm on acoustic…
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I started this song 35 years ago and finished it last year.
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*Pilón* reveals a Cuban pattern, traditionally played on Timbales, but in this case on Jr. Congas & Congas (with gated reverberation and flanger effect). The rhythm of Pilón is based on the motions of pounding sugar cane.
A new son reveals…
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I posted this song a few days ago and Bethan liked the music so much she wrote her own words. Here it is, a co-write across the Atlantic.
SITTING BY THE WINDOW, NOTHING TO DO
WAITING FOR THE TIME WHEN THE SUN SHINES THROUGH
THE SUN SHINES…
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This one sat around for quite a while collecting dust until I picked it up a couple days ago and started tinkering with it. I think I like it.
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A song about unemployment that I did a bad job of recording, then i had another go and it didn't come out how i wanted so i said OH FORGET IT and so here is the rough version.
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This was written at a time when things weren't going so well for me. This will be my last upload until after the RPM Challenge.
The jeans are worn but they're clean.
The shirt is frayed at the elbows.
The shoes are dull, lost their sheen…
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we fought the moon and the moon came back
we fought the sun and the sun came back
we fought the moon and the moon came back
we fought the sun and the sun rose up
we sought the lord and dance, said he
we saved the word and preach it on the sabbath…
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This song was inspired by a long walk....
Lyrics:
Down by the river, down by the shore we go
The moon above cast a beautiful glow
We walked around talking through the night
I can’t help but think how it felt right
Hey Constance, don’t you feel…
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anagram play on words, you guess
A Ladder to the lamp fire
a raven roam hunting through light
a blurred vision cut on self and wit
white fangs do sink they sank and sunk into reds
count the slain'ed, left pale and hated
ruse do vary, once…
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The other Reg has got the Blues too the Folsom kind......
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Jim Wearne added some lyrics to our local Hurling song, and I had the privilege of playing it with him when he came over from America last year.
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Version 2 of Cable Tie frets.
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2008
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Um arranjo de uma música natalina com ritmo e acordes de bossa pra os meus amigos brasileiros. Um feliz ano 2012 pra todos.
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O menino Rei (What child is this)
Dm7 Cdim CM7 Am7
A crian…
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Reg has been practising the Am Blues scale and thinking of politicians this evening...........
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In the spring of 2011, I was recovering from a serious medical issue and, in addition to the support of family and colleagues, that rather dark time was lightened by two happy occurrences. The first was connecting with Elise Pittenger, one of…
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a little piece of whats left of the other Reg.......
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This is a rough mix of a piece I created during some 4-track recorder experimentation.
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Sometimes, reaching out and touching the stuff that's hidden deep down inside is the most rewarding hiking you can do.
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A story of a girl, growing up to be a woman, a wife, a mother ... but forgetting about herself ...
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You know how it is when you look around, trying to figure out what everyone is doing and how they lead their live, looking for an answer to how you should run your own ... don't ... otherwise, you'll wind up with a life that is just a cut-and…
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Well....the lead in the background and the main is done by a vocal Fx ......no guitars were harmed ......the rest of the music was my trusty M-audio Pro keys ......i sent it over to the other Reg as an example of what i wanted him to do with…
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This is a reading of one of my favourite books, that I read for my children, they are always totally absorbed not only is the story superb but the artistry by Axel Scheffler is also fantastic. During the telling of the story i must cover every…
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This is my first of the year so a Happy new year to all and thanks Norm for the beat .....hope you enjoy.
Stories of ghosts and the devil abound in Puerto Rican folktales. In the southern part of the island, it is said that most of these stories…
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