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Spontaneous little ditty about carelessness and always staying on the move. Quite different from the murky, depressing trite I always seem to end up composing.
This started out as a loose solo guitar jam around a simple chord sequence, and…
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So there I was, trying hard to complete a big production that I've been working on for ages, and I was getting nowhere. In frustration I started composing this little thing, and it quickly evolved into a nice piece of music all of its own. Funny…
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Entry for Zan's Current Events Compo 2010 on Trax in Space. I was inspired by the news of the solar transit of Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station on may 16. It was covered in global media, and what *really* sparked my interest…
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Keyboards: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Written/Recorded: 2006
Another short piece I threw together when I had access to a keyboard. If I ever have any extra money, I need to get a keyboard. Though I'm technically inclined, sometimes…
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One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.
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This is a written by Taylor Swift, but we did our own spin off of it and put a little "man" behind it. Hope you like it!
***THIS IS THE SCREAM VERSION!!!! SEE "LOVE STORY" FOR THE ORIGINAL!!!***
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Keyboards: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Written/Recorded: 2006
Old music library track. I recorded this with a cheap Yamaha keyboard my step-father gave me. Wish I would have add little more to the repeat of the melody, but I think I…
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this is a rough mix..going nowhere..so still in the works to finetune it..
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Something I did last year - A song about the crazy college days (Or Uni where applicable :) )
Bad Old Days
Everybody's drinking their wine
Driving slow and taking their time
Better off when I sip moonshine
Not rubbing alcohol 'cause I…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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A track that I had chalked up as a "throw-away" until a PAL convinced me otherwise. I believe this is an alonetone debut for this one.
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made with an electric guitar, a simple looping device, an amp, and automated volume curves in Garageband
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On this beach made of sand and shells
and broken hearts
as with so many things in this life
it ends where it starts
And like the waves that will roll over me
you take away everything that I see
So I walk to the place where the sand
and sky…
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the next time youre bored and in burger king, try holding some ice cubes against your eyes. it stings like christ and also looks like youve been crying just in case you wanted people to feel sorry for you
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Slower alt song, about 64bpm, lowest bpm i have wrote so far. Was a bit tricker than the rest. About 20 hours over 3 days for this track. Inspiration is a little varied.
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The new new testament will include the book of St. Jones.
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Kind of an antagonistic / protagonist song. 3rd person type rendition. This song was inspired by a little of my past history.
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Moving from point a to point b, sometimes not as fast as you would like but with rewards at the end. Sometimes the rewards are unknown but still worth it.
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Inspired by a couple people. And the general pretentious ideology in general.
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Made a little song which ended up being about the veteran German footballer Torsten Frings (holding midfielder, can break forward).
Did it in an accent that started off being a bit Willy Mason, ended up a bit weirdyank.
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This is a weird little story about a a green monster .... There'a a monkey reference in this one too !
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An improvisation on the resonator, played lap style.
Tuning CGCEBE
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This is from years ago, living in santa fe.
I loved driving around in my little 1980s toyota corolla and listening to cassettes. I loved the way they sounded.
So I took a piano song I was working on, recorded it to cassette, dragged mic…
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The final version.
Thank you for listening, any feedback that you can provide is greatly appreciated.
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Seeing as how it had Fly in the title I used my riff Fly for free, pay to land. It seems to fit.
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So, what's "Fly"? This.
Bass Cajon; tambourine; congas; cymbals.
4/4 180bpm.
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this song is the result of playing around on one of those free loop internet jungle gyms.
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aren't strings expensive? man i need to sober up.
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More stuff from the ancient archives rescued from the same cassette tape as Last Nights Fun. This time a set of 3 Irish reels Live at a concert back around 1992
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I wrote this one about this guy I worked with in a two man show. Do I feel guilty? Meh.
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I wrote this song for the first person I ever fell in love with to tell her that I loved her. I figured that if she didn't feel the same way, it would be less awkward. Win!
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For the indignant lover who won't walk away in all of us...
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Party 2 Nite is a song about you and your lady.
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last eve there was a beautiful moon
dancing in a blue black sky
outside my piano room, it called to me
this tune is a one take playful moment, loosely based on the main theme from the 2nd mov of my piano sonata,,, i only toned down about…
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Quick live recording on my buddy Jim's guitar while visiting him in Portland. The song hopefully speaks for itself. Eastern Europe gets me every time...
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The first song done on new album. Featuring Roy Sample on guitar.
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It's a 100 degrees F in the shade here.
Covering a John Fahey tune, which was inspired by Charley Patton.
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They recon if you go down any mine in the world you'll find a Cornishman there working.
Colin did the vocals and twelve string
Matthew did Balron, whistle, backing vocals ect.
I did the acoustic and backing vocals.
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this is a random song i made when i was bored hope you like it
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this song is about the world and its beauty it was the first song i ever wrote
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well, i really took to both pieces. I decided a mashup should be without permission, otherwise its just aremix. Hope I made something new, Incidentally structure is based on theory heard on alonetone.
Just add 4/4 and go!
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This is a 3/16 Bembe on tuned congas, played with mallets. I've arranged it (at the very kind suggestion of Vaisvil & ReefWalker) in a verse/chorus/bridge/capo fashion to get away from a straight pattern - I think this sort of arrangement…
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Guess I've been away a while - something a little difference - distinct parts in harmony, perhaps... or just me experimenting ;-)
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Just another time traveling love song from your ole Uncle Paul.
Mostly MIDI synths and some analog bass and screaming Ibanez.
Drum loops too. I was going to drum it, but these two loops really kinda drive it along.
Enjoy.....
filled…
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If you have the fever and the only cure is more tambourine, here it is.
MORE TAMBOURINE SOLOS!! (But you should probably wait until you have the house to yourself...)
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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), pretty popsters [ButterflyPolite](http://veryusartists.com/butterflypolite) intone a duet about the nameless people in your neighborhood.
The…
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A good friend of mine Harris Kidd filmed a short piece of work starring my other great friend (and my drummer) Zay Brignall, anywaaays he asked if I could make a soundtrack for it soooo I sat down and watched it over and over and started plunking…
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this song is a fun little tune i made with my buddy when we were jamming one day
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This is the song that's responsible for the creation of this band in the first place. It was originally intended to be used with another band of mine, but kept growing and changing, until it no longer suited that band.
Since then, I have a full…
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this is a redone cover of hallelujah i took this song and made it my own i hope you enjoy :)
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I couldn't get anything right today so I just mashed through a guitar track and overlayed vocals. But now I kind of like the song so it will have to be redone.
So sit back and relax, don't shower or shave and have a beer!
Swill A Beer
I sit…
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This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples here are from my piece "Granite…
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Life is a quest for knowledge and a simple realization that not only is there so much we don't know but to declare it somehow is empowering. A great collaboration with Norm who is an amazing percussionist and a super cool guy! Thanks for the…
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this is a rock song with a message about the sad state of the world we currently live in.....enjoy silly humans!
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this song is about no matter what is wrong in your life always think of life tomorrow
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I had a bit of a dry spell with writing new music but today I have decided to break it.
This is loosely based on another song of mine, titled Swell.
I hope you enjoy this.
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After writing this song about our newly adopted dog, I asked Kavin if he like to play some slide guitar, knowing that he would come up with something terrific... I just had no idea how terrific.
Bandit rides in the back of my truck
A big…
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Licensed for my new "Forever" CD by HFA this song is from "Prince of Persia". It's a song about having faith that all troubling things will turn out allright. All you have to do is believe it will.
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something i wrote for my worst half. who happens to be my better one..
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somehow i wandered in this very different direction
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Wellll it's not really a mystery, it's a little Beatles remixing!! I've basically just mashed together Octopus's Garden and All My Lovin'.
Hope you like it!
toooons of fun makin it :)
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Dark Days & Bright Nights is finally outt. Download it on http://www.datpiff.com/Young_Blayz__Dark_Days__Bright_Nights.m137959.html
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A track from Amber's new CD album "Forever" is from the film "Yentl" and is licensed for Amber's use on her CD. It is about a young Jewish girl forbidden to enter college (at one time only men were permitted to attend) who dresses up as a man…
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This aria is from a Victor Herbert operetta. It was written over 100 years ago to be sung by an accomplished Coloratura Soprano. Amber Whitney loves singing this music.
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Lyrics
The Good Lifeless has Become Boundless
such that it is written,
went where and windly
with pentacles of pie
like know our way
down the screem
when we find what it
is that can been and be we of their
2 tracks of hobnox…
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A piece of music to a lovescene turning to a dramatic rapescene
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Splice your main-brace, and scrape off your barnacles. You'll be jigging along to this one.
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Why bounce I don't know maybe cause it wants to make you bounce.
Something I recorded a couple years ago using a Digitech RP350, drums are from the RP350. Rythm, Lead and Bass were all recorded on a CP60 Strat, bass was an effect on the RP350.
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Track four from the mumble mumble EP.
I'd much prefer this to have an opposing female vocal line to my own, as my own voice harmonizing with itself sounds a little, well, strange, especially given the lyric subject matter. But, oh well, we all…
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Another laid back track that Louis has allowed me to add a little bass too.
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Singer Island's natural Soure in Marajó (AP-BR), does a duet with the band's guitarist Renato Torres Clepsidra.
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Second movment,, perhaps a little rough,, comments welcome,,, 6/11 Third mov is now done,,, and very very different from the first two,, scares me a little
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This is a song i wrote. My first go at recording. Vocals are a bit wobbley but im gonna redo em at a later date. Brian Bazeley plays bass on the track. Hope you enjoy it.
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Twinkly little number. In need of a fairground organ?. What do you think?
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Just added a bit of chugging bass. Hopefully it will add a little to this brilliant track.
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I can just see some plodding along an a horse in the midday sun.
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I was walking down an empty street late one night and thinking of different things while the fire of a song was burning in my head. then took the situation and looked at the parrellels in my life and from that came this song.
hope you like it! :)
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This is just a little shout out to my boy D Hopz. R.I.P
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Brilliant song shame it didn't make it onto the album. Maybe the next one.
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The salient lines in this traditional song, for me, are these:
"... and still I hold, / that the time will come / when he and I will be as one ..."
What need is expressed in this "holding"? Against what, does our singer hope? The resistance…
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Dark Days & Bright Nights is finally outt. Download it from http://www.datpiff.com/Young_Blayz__Dark_Days__Bright_Nights.m137959.html
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What does a songwriter do when he's addicted to Doctor Who (and his new very cute companion)? He writes...
Amy Pond
Red hair and that pretty face beneath it
My how you've grown up after oh so many years
I've only been away for ten or…
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This is a song that started as just an idea I had playing live one lovely thursday evening and I just started playing this progression and sang some gibberish over it and I came up with the "chorus" part and and the Idea of asking questions in…
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Rather dig the style of the vocals I did on this. I imagine the final version of the song to be rather swamp sludge out with all sorts of righteous sounds. I'll get there eventually.
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Theme song for a new board game being published called "Inevitable."
http://www.inevitablethegame.com/content/about-0
Do you want to live in a hard drive?
Immortality can be achieved in a tangle of wires
The chance for divinity is in…
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After listening to Brian's beautiful guitar piece "Mellow," Brian was kind enough to allow me to sing along...
Never saw you coming
Down my lonely road
I never saw you coming
Can't be sure you'll never go
I know you'll be leaving
But I keep believing…
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part of free loops I'm going to upload here for all you to download if you like. Mostly conga and other soundfonts used with my korg padKONTROL and then edited in fruity loops.
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A little mix up of the sounds that I grew up with from electro to electric guitar and hip hop to house.
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Dark Days & Bright Nights is finally outt. Download it from http://www.datpiff.com/Young_Blayz__Dark_Days__Bright_Nights.m137959.html
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I *think* this is final version of my 4th MOTU demo
- I will see what comments I get, if any.
This is a short, more or less middle eastern-ish piece using the Zurna tuning and Mark of the Unicorn Ethno 2 sample set in Sonar. I performed (and…
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Dedicated to my sweet wife's loving mother, Millie, who is moving into hospice.
She is a very thoughtful person, centered on peace and justice.
The song has a guitar part that symbolizes her. The quieter echo part is Wally, who passed years ago.
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If this song could have babies it would be triplets. (I have no idea what that means either).
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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), the [VUArtists](http://veryusartists.com/vuartists) bid farewell, fond wishes, and vague threats to all you kiddies who joined us on the musical…
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Piano Sonata One -- the Mexican Sonata
1st movment here
2nd finished -- but waiting its turn
3rd in concept form (much to think about)
Dedicated to Ralph who passed away last year during the RPM month of February,, The slower middle section…
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I was bloody knackard at the end of this one playing bar chords for four minutes. Wanted to do a second take but my wrist wouldn't let me.
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photo & artwork by GMO.
(if you want to know more about musette musics src.wikipedia)
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November 14th, 2006. I don't think it was ever mixed down. I present a brand new old song.
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I watched a programme on Dali half way through composing this and it took some strange turns!
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Wrote this one yesterday. If your reading this in a weeks time, eight days ago. I know the long notes wobble a bit. But need a little more confidence to give it stick.
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A fun childrens tune from 2008, it really ought to be a hot fiddle tune but i don't have a hot fiddle.
Old fox coming down the road now Bunny Bunny
Run Run Bunny Bunny Go
White tails bobbing in the air there funny bunny
Go Go Bunny Bunny Run…
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(this track's a bit hot, mind it doesn't hurt your ears, please)
So many reasons for sorrow. One sees from within sorrow, and sees only sorrow. But we must look awry at these weeping walls, these streaking-blind windows: they are of our own…
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Another wacky production from the stretchy, bouncy, and elastic world of Rubber. Special thanks to Mark (Launched) for writing this one for us.
We had a whole bunch of fun with this song and you will too.
Enjoy!
Flies in my lunchbox
(Help…
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