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Reg is back on the drink there was no escaping it. He found out that Desirea was not what he thought she was, she had been telling him lies and his hopes were dashed again.............. theres a little mess up on the Xylophone but what can you…
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Vocals: James Ryce
Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Bass & Drums: Neal Vanderhoof
Guitar: Andrew Doherty
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
James is actually a country singer. This was the first time for him to sing a jazzy piano…
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Vocals: Sabrina Doughty
Lyrics: Grant D. McLeman
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
This is the 2012 remix.
This song was based on a free-form lyric by Grant D. McLeman from Scotland. Quite a challenge ... :)
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A pop/rock tune in the veins of the 80s. At least that was the goal.
UPDATE: This is the Jan 2017 version!
Lyrics: Casia
Vocals: Jessica Rasche
Solo Guitar: Bobby Clohessy
Bass: Jean Lui Toudou
Drums: Jay Carros
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Vocals: Tricia Dovidio
Lyrics: Bob Beckley
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
This one was tricky to do because the piano does not play at a fixed tempo, and it was an online collaboration (like all my collaborations).
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Resulting from a Mini-Moog attack a had one night.
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Vocals: Eric Savoie
Acoustic Guitar: Dan Clancy
Electric Guitars: Bobby Clohessy
Bass: Trevor Tillotson
Drums: Gerald Langenfeld
Composed by Steffen Offermann & Eric Savoie
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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A few months back we had a "Beatlesfest" on songcrafters.org.
I contributed this and Yesterday.
This one's a bit of a departure for me. Not the song itself - it's been one of my favourites ever since I was tiny (I preferred Robin Gibb's…
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Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Guitar: Billy Playle
Bass: Andy Gupta
Drums: Alex Zulaika
Composed by Steffen Offermann & Tricia Dovidio
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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This celtic folk piece is a collaboration with lyricist Donna Devine.
This is Donna's explanation:
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Background: In earlier centuries, young men were captured by "press gangs" - often literally torn away from…
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"When I Die"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
From coast to coast and pillar to post the unpredictable is posed.
If there's a God, will he answer my prayers?
Is there a Hell, will I end up down there?
I have to admit when I think about death…
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"Stations"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
I'm in love with a ghost with suicidal tendencies.
It's not brave, it's not strong, lady feeds on pity.
Wind me up, crank me down.
Kill me with the railroad sound.
Get me back on the track,
Hope…
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"The Ballad of Dan Forth and Jane Finch"
Lyrics by Daniel Parkhill, Music by Daniel Parkhill and Joe Neff
I could never be part of your Cinderella story.
I could never go where all hope is gonee.
I could never try to rationalize your living…
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"I Don't Get You"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Who will bite the hand that feeds?
Sink into it, make it bleed?
It's just me who wants to reconcile and find the glory days.
Thanks for giving me the gift,
I'm just shooting from the hip…
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"Smell of Spring"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Indistinct conversations happen all the time.
Keep your secrets to yourself and I will tell you mine.
Teach an old dog new tricks, giving a boy a gun.
"Encourage Anger" is the game, and you…
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"The Backyard"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Met my friends in the backyard
In the summer I was lookin' to be a man.
Didn't know how it would change me, raise me.
But I didn't think about that.
Every Sunday we'd wake up,
And paint the…
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"Fail"
Lyrics by Daniel Parkhill, Music by Daniel Parkhill and Keith Landry
There's a price to pay to be the boy who popped out from a storybook
And every single day I find the jury's giving me the alibis.
So let me tell you:
I'm so-so tall…
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"I Was Born"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Greetings to my only friend, sacrifical lamb.
Ask me where my mind has been, ask me where I stand.
Guess it isn't real, guess it doesn't matter much.
Ash to ash and dust to dust, etcetera and such…
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One for the lonely kids.
Too dark for a children's record?
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I'm finally happy with this track - v1 was too much of a nothing song and it's been bugging me all the way to the last night of the challenge.
1 more to mix
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This one means a lot to me... Kinda twangy I guess?
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Simple Plan
T Boudreau
Wandering soul, do as your told
and come back inside it's getting cold
I've been waiting here with hope n fear and my hands on the wheel til you decide to steer
Mr. Hollowtree you're a mystery to me you stand tall…
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Final Version
If in doubt write more songs
with Kazoo solo! and heckling!
this is as close as i got to some hokum jug band
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This was going to be a re-make of Dancing on my own but reg was too busy to participate so i have used Norms percussion track and got Chris Vaisvil to bass it up and i have added a vocal creating something new. Reg has had a lot of trouble with…
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Without the darkness it has a different feel........
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Reg has decided to write this song about an English serial killer known as the Crossbow killer to make those young trusting women well aware that some men are not always what they seem ................. as in the case of Stephen Griffiths who…
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Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
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The title track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'. It was the last track I completed and I had to rush to finish it. That's why it has no real melody and is really just a bunch of riffs.
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It was created entirely on my iPad.
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Bookending the "Late December" CD, this song about my little girls on Christmas morning holds a special place in my heart. Thanks to Sam and Mick for making it perfect.
One Perfect Day
Go to sleep my blue-eyed girl
The sun is on its…
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A crazy little song written while considering Ed Robertson's plane crash from a few years back, "Any Landing" is given much legitimacy by Ashley's incredible voice and Kavin Allenson's (Kavin S. Acoustic Church) guitar.
Any Landing
Learning…
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Another formerly poorly recorded song... Really a piece of poetry that was put to music (a hit-or-miss approach for me that seemed to work well on this one).
Three Times More
Dad plants his spring garden
For a good summer bounty he's…
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When the girl in the room is just too cute for me to concentrate on whatever it was I was trying to do.
Anything Done
How am I supposed to get anything done
With you looking like that
I'm so far gone
I'm forgetting where I'm at
How…
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So I'm watching Ken Burns' documentary on the National Parks and realize that I'd never written that John Muir song I had been meaning to get to... So I got to it. Tim Alexander (Letter Seventeen) mentioned that he thought the song needed a…
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A few years back (when I lived it Texas), I drove out to an open field to watch the Geminids meteor shower... I really need to remember to look up at the night sky more often.
The Showers of December
Lying flat on my back
Looking…
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The contrast of this aging "summer boy" and his outdoors-loving daughter who is more than happy to run out into the cold.
Late December
Late December
The nights get so long
Turning embers
In the dark before dawn
Late December
For…
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Sloane did me a favor & played an electric guitar part on this one. I had hoped to work with her more on this project, but she wound up leaving town to help take care for a recovering family member.
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Seventeen thousand…
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Goodbye Blue Monday
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Goodbye blue Monday
There's nothing else to say
We always knew
we would part this way
Time comes to say goodbye
To pause perhaps and wonder why
Why we always had to be
So blue, so blue
I can see that life…
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(RPM 2011) For obvious reasons, many RPM albums make use of improvisational sound collages. ;-) This is the first of three that divide the record into sections. You may or may not hear the connections in the lyrics, but it actually does make…
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Harmonica by Dr. K
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Paper hearts in your window
paper hearts on your door
Paper hearts ripped in pieces
And Strewn across the floor
but who am I to question
The intentions of old…
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Reg has a vision but his not really sure it happened... I mean he was at a party and he had been drinking and smoking...........
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Reg has got a little soppy since he met his new girl, the widow Desirea. His pretty sure she's the one but the old fears keep rising. He knows he has to put the past behind him if any relationship is ever going to stand a chance of working…
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Written & Recorded: Feb 26, 2011
GADGAD Capo III, DADGAD Capo III
This is probably my last track for this year's RPM Challenge (leaving it incomplete for 2011). I'm kind of worn out and not feeling super inspired this year and I sort of…
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This is a synopsis of Reg's favourite movie put to music. Sorry about the length but what can you do, when you have a story to tell, you can't cut it short can you? This is one to download for the car to listen to on that boring journey or when…
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This is a band I was in for almost 9 years. We were called 3 Ton Jack. Played mostly around the Council Bluffs, IA - Omaha, Ne areas.
Singer: James Johnston
Guitars/backing vocals: Me
Guitars: J.C. Leach
Bass: John Schrader
Drums: Kevin Corum
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Reg has decided that he doesn't want hurting again so he has decided to be up front about what he wants.................. Love me for who I am........
Love me, Love me, for who I am
Love me, take me for what I am…
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I used a clip of the English version of greetings recorded on the gold disk on board Voyager 1.
Thanks NASA/JPL
Headphones and volume knobs required!
Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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This song was born on the 18th of Feb. 2011. It was the last piece I wrote/recorded for the challenge. It was a very sad day for me, almost as if all my usual winter sadness was concentrated and crammed into one day. The process of writing and…
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Trying to see if I can break alonetone's formatting with the song title ;)
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A lot of different types of people get down the cellar since Elvis moved in and Reg has been taking notice.........
A BLUE BLOODED JUNKIE
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A Blue blooded junkie has the time of his life…
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This was a poem written by a guy called Maverick , i altered it to fit a song stucture , it was done live , with my good friends Tina on bass , and AK on second acousic
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Desirae & Johnny were lovers but they got into debt and Desirae left Johnny. Johnny didn't handle the separation at all well.............
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
The idea is adapted from "The Blind Boy's Dog" by Hank Snow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRVR76hwvs
The song contains references to people you may not recognise if you're not from Australia…
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The explanation for this is a bit long, so if you're just looking for the lyrics, switch over to "about" and click the "view more" box below.
So I'm eating fish and chips at an Irish restaurant waiting to play an open mic in Saratoga over at…
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I guess it's a semi-sequel to Emote. One of my mellower ones.
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Reg has been out on the town again with his old friend madness and its now the morning and loves old friend sorrow has come to call........
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Another song in our ongoing Wojo project. Wojo is a Wetband splinter group made up of Jethro and Woody.
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The music is a repeat - but the video is new. Press "more"
Sister Savage had the original idea for the "holy haunted aquariums"
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Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
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my last one for the RPM... until next year
...mwa hahahahahahahhaha
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this isn't sad, it's survival
i bet you think this is where the happy ending goes
the realization i've been living wrong
not exactly right, but we…
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This initially had started out as my attempt to do a basic electronica track - I sort of failed miserably at this. (Like most music I program, it ultimately begins to sound like 'not electronica' by the end, for better or worse.)
The re-recording…
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Title song from this years RPM Challenge.
Lyrics:
Shot dead
is what I felt when I first looked into your eyes
Shot dead
Is what I became, I tell you that ain't no lie
My head
it just exploded when I saw that way that you dance
Off…
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Final version
Every so often when i'm thinking of something else a western song pops up as if there is a soundtrack to a movie running in the back of my head. I might have to gather em all up into a playlist some day.
track nine, or at least…
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Written and Recorded: February 22, 2011
DADGAD, DADGBD
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Had the blues in Alabama
Had the blues in Texas too
Had the blues all over
Now I 'm givin' em to you
And if you don't want em
You know what you can do
You wont find me I'm goin' ta run and hide away from you
Because I see trouble
Trouble…
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Track 5 - Album: Futurism - Band: The Anchorage Drift
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Contrast to "Adrift In The Enigma Shift" from RPM 2010..
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Probably the oddest recording I've ever made.
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I'm pretty sure I've ripped off the main riff from somewhere. Oh, well, too late now...
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thanks to Keith Landry for the lyrics help on the choruses.
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Reworked the vocals a bit (quite a bit). And yet again! And now, Gumbo Stu is singing backup bits. Thanks for the vocals Gumbo, a very welcome addition!
And, as requested, here are the lyrics:
I'm Not Afraid
You can blow me up
You…
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In response to a suggestion of Dr. Ozan Yarman I tried a tuning he created for a different project. I realized the composition using Garritan Personal Orchestra Baroque organs, Garritan World sample set Oud and Santoor samples performed on an…
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Lyrics:
Skip ahead to her in pants,
watch her dance in the living room
in front of all the other dinner guests.
She thumbs her nose at simulacra,
but someone must play Cleopatra
in the PTA's yearly drama fest.
Her husband broke his body…
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It's kind of funny how you can intend to create electronica, and then end up blindly wandering into a different sub-genre. The end result almost sounds like it wanted to be stoner rock.
For more on the song title, look up "Ganzfeld Effect…
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Story came out of my current situation of commuting Mondays to my job 200 miles out of town and then back on Fridays. Been doing it 8 months now. Trying to sell a house, it aint fun.
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This is a piece written for a small ensemble of Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn and Percussion in harmonic series tuning using a section from harmonic 12 to 30 reduced to an octave tuning of 15 steps.
This piece is…
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That's right...354. He's working the jazz circuit now. Blythm and Ruse on the Five. Lipless (on The Top) Willie Lee Harlot on the Four.
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Was Reg daydreaming had Robert Plant really just come down the cellar bar to visit Elvis and sang while he played. He shook his head and resumed playing .....................
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Reg has seriously got the blues and can't seem to leave the empty bar, there is just him and Elvis in there. The strange thing is that the tables and chairs are there, the bar and the stools but there is no booze behind the bar just empty glasses…
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It was created entirely on my iPad using a DAW app called 'Music Studio'. The title comes from a line in the song 'Bodhisattva' by Steely Dan:
"Can you show me the shine of your japan, the sparkle…
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Dedicated to our friends at the Ministry. Blythm on keys, Ruse on guitar and bass, and special guest, Blind (in One Eye) WIllie Lee Harlot on drums.
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Got my 70's on...lots of cool loops from Garageband and various effects on my acoustic guitar... Sit back and enjoy!
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This is like a mission for the Doom Patrol
I need a robot body for my brain
Miss Callas calls
the dopamine exhanges
the sound of down
And there is danger everywhere
the scissor men are coming
House of icons
Felt like cards
The brilliant…
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spoof, "no one gives a shiiiiiit about my rpm album"
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Thinking of summer.........original guitar composition.........by Dave Berry
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I wrote this for a friend of mine who was very special to me. It chronicles a period of time in which we both were quite innocent and learning about ourselves. This one bounced around inside of me for many years...This is a just a shadow of what…
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I heard a great song by a songwriter from the island of Java while eating at an Ethiopian restaurant once. The feel of the song struck a chord in me and several weeks later this song poured out as a response to his beautiful island music.
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Reg is still in the empty bar but this time he decides to sing along and let his Blues out..........he wakes.......
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Reg is in the empty bar, its three in the morning and he sits down and plays the blues...............
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This is a tune I wrote to illustrate how silly the state of world affairs had become. Or maybe I was reading too many old story books...who knows...
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
I just whipped this up in Garage Band using a loop called 'Exotic Sarod' for the main melodic theme (hence the title). The Sarod is an Indian stringed instrument. 'Sarod' means 'beautiful sound' in…
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I created "This is life" in a bad mood. I just picked a nice drumloop and started to improvise on my keyboard and I'm very happy with the harmonies arised from my mind or hands :)
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I wrote this song as one in a series of potential songs to be performed at a friends wedding. I liked this one so much that I modified the lyrics and recorded this version as part of my "Transition" album.
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This song was inspired by a melody my then 2 year old daughter was playing on the harmonica one day back in 2004. I picked up my guitar and strummed along....I kept playing around with it and "Caught in the Rain" was born.
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another hastily made RPM track ;)
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// dead flowers
// grow from my heart
// grow from the compost of my dreams
// dead flowers
// grow from my wings
// from the compost of my dreams
I just wanted something
something that could…
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Regs therapy is going well. Reg remembers some stories his Uncle Sam told him as a young man. Reg hasn't had a drink for a month now and his head is starting to clear.He has decided to visit Uncle Sam as it has been quite a few years and hopefully…
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An unaccompanied song about bedtime. Not a lullaby though. Oh no!
What does anyone think of the 'cat's moustache' line - it seems like that's a make or break call right there and i like it when i read it but it's hard to sing without…
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Commemorating the epic struggle taking place in Wisconsin (USA) an improvised piece for orchestral, Indian, Chinese, and African percussion plus 3 synthesizers in harmonic series tuning. (A straight harmonic series from C1 and on up). Performed…
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You never would have caught me playing this genre a few years ago. WHat the hell happened ??
All the instruments were recorded with an open mic at my house. Which, as you know is always a chaotic place to record :) If you listen hard enough…
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It tells of the perils of dating for the modern werewolf.
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Our big epic number. surely a closer. tried to write words but the organic way the song came about kept me from violating such a sacred thing with something less than stellar. or as organic anyway. every other attempt left me feeling...
fake…
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an odd re-version of "zombie children in the dark" for RPM 2011.
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There was only one helping of biscuits and gravy left, which I warmed up for my son, who stormed out the door stating emphatically that he was off to join the Navy instead of going to school and so there I was, having gained a good breakfast while…
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My daughter Heather and I spent an afternoon walking together around her old neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side; museums, cafes, the park; just talking and walking.
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This Prelude in 18ET comes from a challenge on the microtonal tuning list to write something in the whole tone scale that didn’t sound like Debussy or Satie. This prelude has decidedly Debussian whole tone passages. All 3 whole tone scales…
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Has Reg found his excuse to have another drink or is this just the start of another drunken escapade...................
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Reg has been with the new women in his life now for a while.She has noticed that Reg has an air of sadness around him.She wants to get to the bottom of it.She starts to ask him why? all the time. Reg wants to keep his secrets of his past to himself…
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Well, you are not going to often hear a 70′s metal piece from me. I have to plead affection for genre as it is what I grew up with in my garage band days. In this piece I put to use my stratocaster copy strung up with “Not Even Slinky…
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Final version
One of my heroes. Willie McTell was blind from birth and travelled all over the south in the thirties at a time when many people would never go more than 20 miles from their home.
Plus nobody sings the blues quite like him…
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Angels Missing Bill Sethares for simultaneous 12 equal guitar and faux voices in Sethares Neutral 10 tuning
More pieces from the survey can be found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=493
! E:\Cakewalk\scales\sethares-neutral10.scl
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sethares…
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This song is sort of about making a clean break, killing off the lead character in your story and burying him along with all his sins before the inevitable happens, and the bad guy gets his. Initially came from a jam with my mate Ben Price who…
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Reg has been caught again by the bottle this time he has nearly gone too far. He paralyzed with drink and hallucinating on the grog he sees his dead Uncle ................
Uncle
The room was spinning, the cartwheels have come,
He’s…
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Final version of this tune - voice and guitar, banjoe accompaniment
i'm still getting used to this new mic and finding my voice sounds different with or i'm singing differently because of it. So .. feedback appreciated, and if you like it…
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Performed on Fender Mustang, Casio CZ-101 (keys, bass, percussion), vocal. Recorded via overdubbing on two cassette decks with 4 mono input radio shack mixer with radio shack 10 band graphic equalizer. Written in the years of Ronald Reagen's…
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~Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité et l'Amour~
Simple joys of being in this the seeming imperfect world.
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If you believe the conspiracy theories it ain't over yet. This is a piece from early 2009.
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This is a tale of an anti hero Howard Marks who used the disguise of Mr Nice to cross borders and smuggle huge amounts of drugs, he was caught and sentenced to 25 years. He is now a loveable rogue playing to packed audiences telling tales of…
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Danny Zuko from the motion picture Grease
sung by Sandy Gritt
written by Louis St. Louis and Scott Simon
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INSTRUMENTAL! or just mental, probably one of those 80 to 20 mental over physical kind of things.
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Reg was in the library reading back issues of the national papers to keep warm because a cold spell had hit the country hard and he had no money for heating. At least he could sit in the library reading until 5pm when it closed. Some strange stories…
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finally uploading this version to demonstrate my method of beat creating because this version sounds better at faster tempo.
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This is about my Nan who in some ways was more like a second mum...
You wont be gone when you leave me,
You wont be gone x 2
Cos while I'm alive til the day I die
You'll linger on when you leave me
You'll linger on
I remember how your…
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Second pretty little interlude.. this time, the light, the hope!
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One of two pretty little interludes for the album, both of which are based around a guitar part Gary did for me. I've put different synth chords behind each of them to cover the two sides of the lady that inspired the full song, Jekyll & Hyde…
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My version of the Beavis and Butthead theme, Wikipedia says new episodes are coming to MTV in 2011! I can't believe it.
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Lyrics
Take the lift and your half way up....
Reach the top and your half way up...
You didn’t see your rise, and Lost your way.....
Looking down on the world your tears fall...
You Missed the Beauty of the climb.
And now you’re…
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First of 24 new song I have written. This one is cute, about unrequited love no doubt. #:)
When I say 24 new songs not all will make the cut but most of them will. I will be busy for a good long time!!
Using pointless picks of course.
See my…
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Homegrown loops, cut and pasted.
Drumming with loops. I'm going loopty looooo...
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thought,, id try doing something for valentines day so i chose two Beatles tunes,, amazingly (or not) i found them very difficult for me to personalize, ,,hope all you lovers have a good day and enjoy
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Reg has left re-hab but now he has to fill those sober hours with something, so he has taken to people watching, but like everything in his life he has become addicted to it, listening in on there private conversation as he follows them, watching…
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Written and Recorded: February 12, 2011
DADGAD, Capo VII
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wisdom hair...
lyrics :
He can say and may can he
oh where is the tree of life in me
He can say and may can he
oh where is the silent dream
how do you know
he can, I can, I he can, kenoagen
(although the lyrics aren't really…
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