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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), the gently disturbed [Colin Garvey](http://veryusartists.com/colingarvey) recalls fond memories of salad days at Grandma's house.
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Guest preacher, Alex Collins from Minster Church, Cardiff, opens up John 6
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I realize now that any song with the word "cathartic" in the lyrics has flow issues...
Cheers!
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This is a cover of Richard Wright's original "night of a thousand furry toys" that i made a couple of years ago. all work, voices, instruments and recording by myself :0)
original lyrics and music: Richard Wright
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Sung By John B - he also does most of the instrumentation. My contribution is simply that I wrote the lyrics and composed the music, and if you listen closely I play the guitar parts. A cross Atlantic collaboration.
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Did this one just after I got Garageband. Little bit sloppy but still haven't worked out how to edit yet. If anyone would like to add vocals feel free.
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previously the collab song..."cryptical condition is the state of our mission...and we gotta sell it to the masses, captivate the masses".
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This is a special request by Sister.
It's kinda sloppy. Frankly, because I suck at it :)
I'm not much of a cover musician but I gave it hell.
It's mostly analog. MIDI drums, DB33 organ patch,
strat leads, and Ibanez chords, Dean bass…
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One of two of my instrumental interpretations of a tune Oh My Goodness wrote entitled Not Lying [ http://alonetone.com/ttworkman/tracks/not-lying-draft ].
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This is one of two instrumental interpretations I have worked on of a tune Oh My Goodness wrote. If you have not checked out her talented vocals yet, check out http://alonetone.com/ttworkman/tracks/not-lying-draft .
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got a sound hole pickup finally. no more lo-fi!
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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Could it possibly be true that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it?
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with…
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A remastered version of a 2007 RPM song by Baby's First Ride from the CD V10 Powered.
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A song that has it all. Two chords, great energy, positive lyrics and a punk meets reggae vibe. This is a cover of Stiff Little Fingers version. Original was written by Bunny Wailer after he left Bob Marley's Wailers.
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crazy..just crazy..and wonderful..or full of wonder..or full of shht..
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A remastered version of a Baby's First Ride song from the 2008 RPM CD entitled Riviera. Seems like an eternity ago.
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ryth guitar..thundering blasmotrons..wahdactyl resounds
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Dark, moody and a little weird - German indie artist Black Henbanbe with his version of the mother of all English folk songs. Recommended if you like the song, drone low vocals, gothic folk ambience and psychedelic gimmicks.
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Did the guitar tracks first, followed by bass, then drums and vocals last. I wrote this song in a bookstore, after I came home and recorded it, I realized I made the song too short for all the lyrics.
Im talking, she's texting
Im givin…
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tracks range from a sample I recorded of opening a cake lid, then manipulated in alchemy. Sound sample recorded of coins falling into my hand. And some other tracks, especially the vocal track. lol. theres a heavier version at my willramz myspace.
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Early Method, "this track from 2001 dedicated to my beautiful baby daughter born that year."
Nice strings.
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The second track from the forthcoming "Dee EP".
Another heavy grindin' tune, with an eastern flava.
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Inspired by the raunchy Rebekah Dee and created as a backing track for use in adult entertainment, this is a dirty low slung tune.
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yelyah - “solo piano 20100411” semi live improv
Semi live in that I had an idea of where I wanted to go, but never locked the melody in (as is probably obvious).
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yelyah - “solo piano 20100410” live improv piano
Sometimes I leave in the fumbling beginnings because they’re amusing to me.
This would be one of those times.
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yelyah - “solo piano 20100409” simple piano melody
I really should do something further with this some day.
I guess I’m still on a semi-holiday after the marathon songwriting session that produced half life.
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yelyah - “solo piano 20100408” live improv piano
Listen as I fall apart near the end of it.
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In 2006 we visited a Japanese garden. In September of 2009 I wrote this piano piece in 17 ET and I hear a connection between the two. So I put together a video from pictures and video taken of our visit and married the two. Please visit the song…
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Starting out as a simple and awe inspiring invention, progressing to a more chaotic and demanding machine driven future. - people becoming enslaved to these devices. Feeding the machine.
Phone samples were recorded from the output jack of my…
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this is acid reggae........!....?..... featuring vocals by Sofia who also appears on humming...it was knocked together over 2 afternoons and is for stevie t my lovely friend who passed away recently..
he loved up music and this is up !
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Love like a salt river washing away
Love's like sunshine evaporate
Love like floating candles blowing away
Watch out for the way you'll compensate
When I've seen all you have to give
When I'm still hungry
I need more than this
Tell me how…
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This is not me, but a remix of Hentai Improvising Orchestra's live set at the Other Texas Music show on May 1st.
For more Hentai, go here:
http://virb.com/hentaiimprovisingorchestra
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I've attempted to get the sound of garden clippers in an offbeat with the associated music, sorta like the offbeat of clapping sticks in traditional Aboriginal music.
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continuation of what can be done with a 24 letter word. Same idea just expressed a little further than on the Nowhere to Run Phil Induced song. Used Alchemy preset and a lot of honorificabilitundinity-ness.
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Just jamming on the riffs to Ozzy's Crazy Train. I tried to play the solo note for note, but also added solos of my own. I hope you like it.
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I wanted to record something that sounded like Jimi Hendrix and Jack Bruce (in his Cream days) jamming together.
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Partial lyrics from a song I wrote for my band, Nail of The Sun thats (not on alonetone)along to some Phil Collins like music and of course the commentary on phil in general. HAH.
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Cave Syndrome is the first LP by Seattle based Transient Songs (John Frum). Before departing to Seattle, Frum spent his formative years playing in a slew of obscure and somewhat known Texas bands from fronting 90’s North Texas cult band Hasslehorse…
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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), the sick and twisted [Bilian](http://veryusartists.com/bilian) teaches young children how far one must go for a little rain shower.
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We really had a wonderful time working with Sister Savage and we have since inducted her into the band under her new virtual ego: Violet Hemlock!
Thanks Tess!
So...Without further Ado...
"Love Song for the Moon"
by VIVIAN CIRCLE featuring…
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Take some words, do some numerology and then some math, take the riff of the numbers that came from the numerological words and then apply some Pi functions to the volume steps inside a tablature program then mess around some more inside fruity…
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Running home... as the school bell rings, the boy from Bradbury's Greentown, Illinois, runs from the schoolyard and speeds home. Around the corner, racing past the neatly trimmed yards and hedges, he rips down the alley where that special girl…
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I wrote this piece for my wonderful wife, Kimberly. This was specifically for her march down the aisle at our wedding.
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Experimenting with composing for a specific state of mind or emotion. Termite Constituent is the piece that flowed from the word "resigned." I hope you like it!
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DREAMS OF THE OCEAN
Your kids'll be waking up in the morning
Just a couple of hours after mine have gone to bed
I've got the coffee warming
While dreams of the ocean are in your daughters' heads
I taught them all 'bout it late last evening…
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Jason Sloan and I recorded this track in March 2010 as an improvisation in preparation for our performances on The Vigil all-night music festival at MICA. Jason describes the session:
"Erik and I come from very different backgrounds in our approach…
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For this Mother's Day week, a conga improvisation dedicated to Saint Monica and all the other mothers who surreptitiously provide for and incessantly pray for their children. Thanks Mom!
** this could really use a tasty melody to go with…
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I wanted to record something funky. I hope you like it.
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Trying to do write something "happier" than my usual moody stuff. Still working on it.
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i gave this one a little adjustment and couldn't decide which version i liked best...so it became a safe and warm mix...
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because things went wrong and i don't know how to fix it...so i wrote this...
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An edit from the Other Texas Music show, for brevity. Joined the ebow improv intro with the closing "Hymn".
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A cover and rearrangement of the song Lost! by Coldplay.
Thank Jesus for my skills, had it not been for him i would surely be dead.
I give thanks to God and credit this to him for giveing me the skills he has.
It should never be different for…
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This is my attack on writing a rock nd roll song! I was inspired by the sounds of Boston and VanHalen and I found the phrase Elegant woman While I was looking through the newspaper one day and immediately thought up a song idea!
soo I hope you…
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I think this is the first song that I've posted here under Mannequin Races that actually has a guitar in it. You can't really tell that it's a guitar but it's in there (middle section around the 1:50 mark). The guitar is heavily modulated but…
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well I thiiink it was one of the maaaany times in which we would go down to the pMundo beach by the river build a fire, burn one (a couple) down and jam out loud, where I came up with this beautiful chord progression. It was then about a week…
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When I wrote this it was a cold cloudy and dark winter night here in vancouver but I was sitting in my room and was just in a sunny state of mind. I then picked up my Uke and started fiddlin around searching for a breezy chord progression, then…
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My theme music otherwise known as "Slukin'". yamaha drums! play Bass ala de-tuned guitar.
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The coyotes in the woods they’re all lining up for the kill
And the coyotes have sharp teeth and they’ve learned how to use knives
And they’re picking the locks and stealing into your house nd drinking all your poison
Now you’re packing the…
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Profissionalizei esse tema pra ti
quase me matei pra deixar ele assim
bonito como as montanhas
rasgando o horizonte e o céu azul
o azul dos teus olhos beleza tamanha
derrama o mel do xarope profissional
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he woke up cursing like an unpolite cop on speed
spoke in tongues that only monsters thought they knew
grabbed his stuff got up early in his dreams he could
see the evil in a perfect pair of shoes
hey man, the devil is waiting in the clothes…
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Engineers are arguing with architects
and do well for they know their opinion
is right and fair
Someday you'll turn into a place
in a square
and the thief with light feet
will feel as his neck snaps
The sun fell down in its haunted…
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I smoke cigarettes made of strawberries
I lost my mountain, got my age
Strange diseases could have hurt you but I say
Everybody likes to gloom to blue sad songs
and trust industries that glass is not ghost
as they promised us before was sold…
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now if you are feeling gone and feeling far
yeah i can help you i can light your cigar
cause death is a friend we all meet in the end and none ever got away
speak for yourself, don't ever let the luster fade
maybe you could get a gun, destroy…
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the major sons
they're into
some weird shit
pedophilia zoophilia
all kinds of philia
they pray to
the devil himself
hunt and offer him
sweet little, sweet cute
pitiful baby cats
the major sons (Johnny Depp is their favorite actor…
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Reworked this one last night...
Crazy where a Song Can Take you...
CROWN OF DUST
Vocals: Owen Bourne
Left rhythm gtr (and Words): Tharek Mokbul
Right rhythm gtr: Geir Alfsen
Lead gtr : Geir Alfsen
Bass: Mark McPherson
Drum programming…
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Written by Tangmo and Skip Moore. Performed by Tangmo, Skip, and David Brimlow.
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Miles Davis' tune Nardis overlaid on Senegalese call-and-response drum rhythms.
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A piece of music written during the tumult of grad school applications. The idea is for the saxophone and drums to be in rhythmic opposition for the majority of the written segments. The piece is in 9/8 and centered around minor 7ths and tritones.
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I recorded the vocals on this about 14 years ago. An amazing pianist friend of mine from Europe, G.Longabardi, played the piano. Jonathan Sacks from California flew to Texas to co-write the music. If you're out there somewhere Jonathan, contact…
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One day my husband was describing someone as a floosie galore. First I cracked up; then I wrote this song. Do you think I have to share royalties with him? :) I recorded all the vocal parts on this several years ago at Boyd Recording Studio…
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I wrote and recorded this song about five years ago. All vocals are mine. I would like to redo this song and change a few of the lyrics...but here it is in its current incarnation.
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I call those harmonies at the end, my chipmunk voices....which, by the way, is the best part of this song. This work was done at January Sound in about 1981. Yikes! That's a long time ago.
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walking down the street in the 1973, you're wearing yellow tinted shades, and a hat with a feather in it. Your switchblade is in your pocket, but you're not gonna need to use it today. Cause the sun is shining and folks are eating ice cream…
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A small taste of the '74 Twin Reverb. Blackfaced, master volume removed from circuit, two tubes pulled, old Celestion G12-80s (it wasn't me). Les Paul with excellent PAF-style pickups (A5 neck, A2 bridge), stock pots and caps but good parts nonetheless…
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Composition, vocals and guitar by Yahondu
Trumpet and Digital production by Alonetoner
K.SCot Sparks
Lyrics:
Ela vem, ela vai,
ela tem o que eu quero mais
toque de fada
conversa que sara
esse importar com cada dor, cada flor
jeito de…
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Deadlines, freeways, appointments, things to do lists, expectations, getting older, not enough hours in the day to get everything done? ..... make each day and moment count! Thanks to Dave Matthews for a lick I threw in there. Enjoy!
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This song might just put you in the mood, so be sure you're at home or at least some place private...
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Recording some match lighting samples recently and felt compelled to put some music to it.
I put the mic up to some raw acoustic guitar. Bass and lead added with FX. Norm added percussion, making it sound waaaay better.
Contributors:
lyrics…
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Kind of a Sonic Youth version of the old folk tune. This was with my band Lincoln The Chain. Our vision was to create new and weird versions of tunes from the old timey days. Traveling music for post apocalyptic underground railroad...
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Words and music by Michael Thomas
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
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All of creation is conspiring to shower you with blessings, right? Right. But not all of those blessings are sweet and delightful. Let's talk about the other kinds.
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for…
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She said sing for me a song
‘bout a world where we all get along
and she said play for me a tune
that makes me happy and wont you please play it soon
and she said dance but not too fast
take it slow, you never know if this dance will be your…
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Winter-y walk through nothing, which is also everything forever.
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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), alonetone's very own [Sudara](http://veryusartists.com/sudara) shares his potty mouth with us about a young BASTAR_ named Matthew.
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Recorded in the kitchen on April 24, 2010. This is an old song I've had since 1996.
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Had this guitar thing around for a while - I finally "finished" it - enjoy!
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i find myself wondering if you can watch yourself for suicide.........
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A absolute remix of the "lisa dream song". The lyrics came from a poem my lovely girlfriend wrote on a card. Just chaning "man" to "woman" in the lyrics.
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When a friend is diagnosed with cancer, or any life threatening illness, we want to say something. But what do we say? This is a meditation on transience and emptiness, two central zen buddhist teachings.
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Second song by Madeleine. About her experiences on speed (adderall). Definitely a Suicidal Tendencies influence here.
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This is a love song, but it is NOT workplace safe. Unless you work at a strip club or adult "novelties" shop, headphones are highly recommended.
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This is our little bundle of joy now grown up to be 10 years old. She took up the flute this year at school and this is her first effort in front of my microphone.
She decided on the flute after watching some vids of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull…
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another experimental piece. This time we each played our parts separately. I started out with wacked out guitar madness, then bass, then drums and finally some insanely spacey sound effects.
Enjoy...
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In episode 1, Rob beats a girl home and unloads his sack. Some content may not be suitable for younger listeners.
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Written and Recorded April 22, 2010
Buddah defined compassion as "a trembling of the heart."
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD/DADGAD Capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.
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Written for a friend of mine.
be and i will be with you
you are a light house in this storm
you will overcome
you will overcome this storm
don't fear the wall for you will climb upon it.
you will see from higher ground
and the sun…
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D - F - D - G
Weird note riff on a guitar. Shouldn't work. But hey, never stopped me before l-)
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There's a few things going on here in this little all MIDI experiment. First, I wanted to
show an example of artistic clipping to go with my current posts in the forums on the
subject.
The kettle drums in this piece clip in to the red on their…
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On youtube there's a short video clip of guitarist Shawn Lane (R.I.P) executing an extremely difficult chord voicing that requires extensive finger stretching, which Shawn calls "the hardest chord in the world." I altered the chord a little bit…
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All about finding it difficult to see an ex-partner move on with life and withy someone new whilst your still coming to terms with the break-up.
I watch you while you're seeing him
It's born a broken heart
To see you laugh as you pull away
Ohh…
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A song from a child point of view listening to their parents argue.
All these words are scaring me
They're giving me the creeps
When I hear what's going on
My heart drops to the floor
It's over all these problems
Money, kids and work
It always…
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One day as I was turning into my driveway I saw Rita on her porch. She's a lot like me.
AL & RITA Capo @2 in C
C stepping down to F
Al was a smoker. He's dead now, of course
Al has Alzheimer's. Alcohol made it worse
D stepping down…
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My motto is INWARD THRU THE FOG. One day about a month ago, Laura 'Taylor' Whitfield told me I should, "write that song." Thinking back on a fog-bound night in California, I wrote it. Norman Pilcher, a friend from Texas, and I were headed north…
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Mixed a couple of free samples together from Robert Fripp's DGM Live website, added some delayed ebow.
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Another mini-suite, of sorts.
Diamond marimba, mazda marimba, bowed gourd
iPod apps: NLog synth, Bebot
Extremely altered guitar
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No black no white
No dark no light
No big no small
You want it all
You go so far, you leave behind
The things you like, you’ll miss them all
On moving sands, you don’t sink
You fly so high, we’re you gonna land?
Everything, everything that you…
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This song is about those of us who have been deployed, and our deep appreciation to our nation, our brothers, and fellow soldiers, airman, marines, and seamen. This is a song written by a troop.......Ive been in the Air Force for 7 years and…
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