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July 10 - Another skirmish, messed up the end of the demo but I just gotta let it go for now!
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It started out as a drizzle
Dotting the winding dusty road
For many hope began to fizzle
And the dark clouds began to overload
Many…
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July 10 - Skirmish. Refers to you know who.
Lyric:
He's a petulant little child
Ranting, raving mad
Apoplectic in the extreme
To me he looks rather sad
His Twitter feed on fire
With vengeful, spiteful hate
An exasperated urchin…
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July 10 - Skirmish. Got this in right on the hour, had the lyric and basic melody in 30 minutes. Takes me the rest of the time to get a decent take. Fun but nerve-wracking at the end!
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The smoke slowly rises
The prairie wakes at dawn…
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July 10 - one-hour skirmish. We wanted to take a trip this summer but it ain't happenin'.
Lyrics:
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Stuck here at home
With the world on lockdown
Doing my work online
There must be better ways to spend my time
When out gotta…
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July 8 - Used the following songwriting prompt: write a song in the form of a step-by-step process, and use the progression Bm, F#m, G, Em. This was hard at first, and then I came up with something from my own past that I thought might work…
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July 6 - Used a prompt from another writing challege - the 5 in 5 Song Challenge, July 2020. I used 5 of the suggested words: Forgive, Wooden, Coast, Hands, Looking
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The wooden figure in the corner quietly
Like an old friend…
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July 5 - First skirmish challenge in a long time, 2 hrs just barely enough time to do a basic demo, fun day! Lyric based on trips we took when the kids were young down to the beach in Destin, Florida.
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We used to drive down…
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July 5 - This is actually my first 50/90 song this year, just now got around to doing a quick demo. Used the "Titular" tool on the Fawm Muse page, grabbed the title and ran with it. I immediately thought of the plethora of false information harmfully…
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a rather punk meets noise statement about the burning of the refugee camp on Lesbos. vocal, guitars, drums, bass.
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I wrote this one in response to a song writing challenge from the Minnesota Association of Songwriters. The title had to be Mississippi Moon and it had to have a I V VI I II chord progression somewhere in the song. Over 20 writers have signed…
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(I Almost Washed the ) DISHES
I almost washed the dishes
I almost ran the water
Maybe tomorrow
Maybe Saturday
What does it matter to me
I almost washed the dishes..
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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FOOD I MY BELLY
Capo @ 5 in Em
Em) I gotta get some food in my belly (2)
Am) My hands are shaking and I'm feeling weak
B7) I gotta get some food in my belly
I gotta get some food in my belly
I'm feeling woozy gotta get off of my feet…
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Messing around with AudioDirector, I got it for free in a bundle. I'm very impressed as I can do a whole lot with a whole lot of little.
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It's Lonely on the Moon ©2020 words and music Jeff Cole
A nostalgic memory of youth in the 70's suburban bliss.
Swimming in our giant pool
made of aluminum.
to be that cool
to know again
You'll never see a bluer sky
or smell a greener…
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Linnstrument playing a track of Diva (Mondara), Exhale (free-ish 12), percussion and a fretless guitar with effects / occasional ebow.
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How's that for some word salad, eh? Throw a little Italian dressing on this one and you've got yourself a healthy meal!
I've been trying to challenge myself vocally with more complicated melodies and lots of lyrics and things like that, even…
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A song from one of our latest sessions
Hans Nooitgedagt Jr - drums
Bingsolex - lead guitar
Erwin B - bass, recording
KC - vocals, guitar, keys & mix
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Well I'm down
I am falling to the ground…
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Do you ever have an idea / song that you just need to get out of you and recorded, even though it's so rough that you'll want to re-do it over and over again? This is one of those for me....
Drive Until The Signal Dies
Verse 1
Your Silence…
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Made a few edgecore changes to the track. Added some Psychedelic vocals and changes towards the end. Also changed the sound level mastering base.
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Everyone who knows my sister agrees she is worthy of fanfare.
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GONE - My sequester song...
Chain wrapped around the dog park gate
Weeds growing on the school yard lawn
Where has everybody gone
The chairs are stacked
And the stage is dusty
And my strings are getting rusty...
(C) Royal T Music
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This is the Sequence for the Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi set to music. This is the short version because the long version has a lot of verses. In my recording I sing the first verse as an introduction and then go to the short version…
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This is the Sinner's Prayer or the Jesus Prayer sung in Latin. I have an acoustic version uploaded and this version a cappella. I've sung this in the key of F, one step lower than the acoustic version.
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy…
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A story about an interesting Character i recently met.
True Story.
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Here's a new song.
Just me...
KC
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I've been callin' your number – I was so alone
I've been callin' all night long – You didn't pick up your phone
I want to hear you whisper – Sweet things in my ear…
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DJチーズ2600 approached So?ing Machine with some song seeds. Their care instructions involved atypical rituals. Once performed, songs rapidly sprouted forth. (This is one of them. You must sit and listen.) Then a guy in a suit leaned out of a helicopter…
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BEAVERS AND WILLOWS
Capo @ 5 in C
FCG FC FCFG
F C G F C
Like beavers and willows
Bats and mosquitos
F) Toad C) frogs and F) flies (G
DA DA - E Am G C
Algae and oil spills
Shovels and coal hills
Black holes…
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A 1990 experiment for organ.
I was up late one night, nearing the finish of composing this for my father, when I was interrupted by a telephone call telling me he had passed away. Like many of my compositions this one starts out slow and reflective…
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The other night I was sitting out watching a little fire in my backyard, and thinking about how useless it is to let the past dictate our present and future. This one is dedicated to all of us with relationships in our history that have no place…
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And here we go - Edith FINALLY gets it...
Actually, she's been getting it ever since I wrote it on the 29th May. I thought it would take a week or so, but it proved to be more of a fight than I was expecting.
On…
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No Matter what,
Believe u can,
Believe in ur seff,
never relen.
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I've been busy lately playing The Last Of Us 2 and the similarities between what's going on in reality and the game are on point. We're not far off the cliff. I imagine every man for himself and Evil is resurrected in plain view but believing…
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I had myself a dream last night
As I tossed and turned in bed
The window was open wide
The street noise jangled, in my head
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I was dreaming of a better time
It was all so clear to me
Wind whistled through the pine trees…
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This is the last song on The edge of Winter but it is not finished there is another part yet to be written ...
Winter's tale of woe : Part 1 - The end of winter. Part 2 - The last snowstorm
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Antoinette plays keys, Anonymous plays drums, Evan is guitar left, Chris is guitar right (sorry I was a jerk and too loud) - This dates from 1977 when I was a classical major and Antoinette a piano major. Even though this improvisation was from…
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Antoinette plays keys, Anonymous plays drums, Evan is guitar left, Chris is guitar right (sorry I was a jerk and too loud) - This dates from 1977 when I was a classical major and Antoinette a piano major. Even though this improvisation was from…
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Antoinette plays keys, Anonymous plays drums, Evan is guitar left, Chris is guitar right (sorry I was a jerk and too loud) - This dates from 1977 when I was a classical major and Antoinette a piano major. Even though this improvisation was from…
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Antoinette plays keys, Anonymous plays drums, Evan is guitar left, Chris is guitar right (sorry I was a jerk and too loud) - This dates from 1977 when I was a classical major and Antoinette a piano major. Even though this improvisation was from…
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I wrote this song as a way to process some of the feelings of sadness, dismay, anger, fear and love that were brewing inside my heart this past week. I live in Minneapolis, where the terrible killing of George Floyd occurred, and the subsequent…
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I was messing about and this came out. Thanks for listening
GET DOWN ON MY KNEES
I get down on my knees and I pray for a day
Where we can all go outside to run and play
Take my hand and tell what you see
can you see a future, for likes…
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It a motivational track
From TEEJAY ADIX BHAD MHARN.
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The melody for this prayer came to me on Pentecost Sunday, two years ago. I didn't upload up it at the time because I wanted to sing it properly and had intended this to be a demo recording only. I was reminded of the song this morning watching…
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The waitress girl friend pays all the bills while I plays the blues
My Paul and strat just love to rumba
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A demigod or demi-god is a minor deity, or a mortal or immortal who is the offspring of a god and a human, or a figure who has attained divine status after death.
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In 1967, Barry von Imbissstand inherited his father Frederick's Florida pastry shop. After a few months of running the shop conventionally, he had a vision of a giant mallard, which gave him the new title of Lord Patisserie and told him to spread…
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I was asked (told?) to upload something happy. Hmmm, I thought. This will end well...
So, a few days later, I was rehearsing a pleasant little thing I wrote several years ago that has a working title of "She Was…
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Here is another ZOOM Collaboration with:
Steve Krell
Colleen Dillon
Roger Harris
Greg Connor
We posted the lyrics and featured the chords, just in case you wanted to write your own lyrics and post them with this idea.
Empty Bottles…
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I guess you can call that a religious experience:)
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The MixHighest djScuba presents a Turn up house Party...
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Here is a lesser known, very early, Christian hymn based on the Greek text “Prayer of the Cherubic Hymn” in the Liturgy of St. James. It seems to have been created by Cyril of Jerusalem c. 347. I recorded this version many years ago using a Tascam…
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I went to that High School, I wonder how many of them survived the Thirst:)
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Just a quirky little improvisation. The "theremin" was performed using a Korg KAOSS pad.
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This song is a work in progress. I attended an online songwriting workshop hosted by Chad Shank (Minnesota Songwriters Association) who was talking about songs with varying length lines to create more of a conversational atmosphere and the use…
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Midday field. I watch the lark, which serenely rises in circles up to dissolve there, forever. He sees no danger around. Why [should] I care?
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I recall that in childhood we all watch adventure films (or performances), and here the children…
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A strat and a slow minor blues are a go to for an overheard cell phone call.
The tone is pure strat wiggly bar juju. Thanks Robert Cray
Blues lyrics are not required to be politically correct
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Here's the very latest from the broom-cupboard.
I wrote it one dark night over 23 years ago.
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**All I Have To Do - A A J Russe**
There isn’t much time to get this out
You won’t hear me if I have to…
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Prior to recording these Vocals/Lyrics my Microphone died on so i had to use my phone voice-recorder with not knowing how the sound would be. Anyway i had a blast making this Song.
Lyrics:
Broken Dreams on repeat It’s a tie for the Grip…
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a few of us are writing a song using the same base track .
when they are all finished we will put up a play list here is mine
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Here's the first of several versions that you'll see from a collaboration across the inter webs started by Greg Connor. He got us together on the Zoom and then look what happened!!!! Music and lyrics collaborated with the talents of Steve Krell…
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empty club smokey Sunday afternoon t bone style blues
starring the greatest Harp player I know Mark Imsdahl.
Thank you Mark
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from the album "the Machine"
such delight to find you
in my mind moving
around my point of view
press escape, there's no return
once you made the choice
it's yours but you can not refuse
whats your game, once you choose
stack the deck…
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from the album "the Machine"
I am not the catalyst
I'm not the pistol, the stamen, the seed
creation abandoned me
I am not the catalyst
there are books with words i've never seen
which makes me love them even more
I'm not the hero, I…
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from the album "the Machine"
feel, the cold steel
my heart, has no soul
what more, could I ask for
a life with no goal
it's hard to be a total automaton
here we, go softly
into that good night
and press on, the games won
no need to…
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On a resent group meeting of musicians , I was reminded of the love of Latin rhythms. Thank you Bethan.
This is a tune dedicated to a los angeles luthier family ,Candelas, who build old style classic guitars. My fist real guitar was one of…
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This Track was recorded a couple of years ago, and I started thinking about it because of the recent Track "dreaming" that I uploaded.
My friend Lavasir Nordrum (http://www.lavasir.no/portfolio/into-the-mendicant) somehow managed to get us…
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Strange Times is an international collaboration between Roger Harris & myself. Roger initiated the idea with the first verse and chorus along with a chord progression. I added the last verse and took some liberty in producing this version…
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He was told to act a certain way.
Systematic Settings
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My dad used to play the beginning riff of this song when he could still play guitar. I've always wanted to do something with it. The message in this song is to stay positive even in times of turmoil. And that it is ok to do nice things for others…
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A message to my children to be themselves no matter who that is. I will love them regardless
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Give me love is a great and dope love songs.
Click and listen
Don't forget to drop your comment.
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Nodding your heads is a good thing.
Industrial rock
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One of the last songs we recorded before the lockdown
Hans Nooitgedagt Jr - drums
Bingsolex - lead guitar
Erwin B - bass, recording
KC - vocals, guitar, keys & mix
When you told me I was blind
It almost blew my mind
When you told…
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Korg SQ-1 arpeggiator to Korg Vocal Modular audio into Korg NTS-1 synth - no other effects or devices used.
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A few thoughts on this one....
First.. does that... could it... do you think... Reggae? I wasn't planning on that but it just sort of happened. I'm not sure how but... I think... I think I might like it.
In a spur of the moment thing…
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This is a song that I wrote some years ago
I wasn't satisfied with the result and completely rerecorded it
KC
I woke up this morning, tried to get out of bed
My head was in a spin. Lord, I felt so bad
My hands were trembling, my knees…
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First off thanks (MTC) jim for letting me play around with this lovely backing track. i just wish i could of mixed it better i'll have to get the books out and actually read them this time, instead of clicking here and there and hoping for the…
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C.S. Lewis once wrote about the concept of "out of simple evil comes complex good." These are trying times, an understatement if there ever was one. As you read this, you have uncertainties and fears for what our current situation means for right…
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Sample & Hold driven sequences with Euclidian Drums
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I wasn't even sure the recording machine was still going to work after nearly five years... Certainly, bits of me don't work anymore... But, surprisingly, I got this done in 24 hours, start to finish... Strange old world…
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I live in a house with a river running at the bottom of the garden so i wrote a song about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz0ygixKAno
When I get down by the river and I watch it flow
I Wonder where the hell it finally goes
Snaking…
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Pure Data sawtooth and sine waves with interactive midified lap steel.
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I had hoped to have this recording done by Good Friday
but ran into all kinds of problems; the biggest of which was the tape
machine used to record the original instrumental tracks no longer
is working. So I made a foundation track using…
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Kill the Mocking bird
Do what needs to be done
Protect the innocent,
From the Evil that will come
They count on you
The Innocent
Beware the Raven Lord
It taps at your chamber door
It beckons you by name
Speaking some forgotten…
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When I look into your eyes
You keep your love so disguised
It’s just the only way
You keep your feelings locked inside
Will you give it one more try?
To help your feelings come alive
Let your emotions all take flight
And when you do…
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So long ago
Feels like yesterday
But I miss you
Each and every day
What can I say?
You always did things your own way
Never half way
You were there for me
In ways I can’t repay
And now it’s come to light
I can’t believe it’s been…
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You’re looking better, Every day
You’re all together, In every way
Birds of a feather, You and me
Let’s get together, shouldn’t we?
Cause when I see you standing there all alone
I think how would it be
To have you for my own
And when…
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Don’t you know I’ve seen your picture
Staring right back at me
Don’t you know I hear about you?
I wonder what it all means
Don’t you know…I’ve waited for you
Don’t you know…That I still care
I dream I have you walking
Right alongside…
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So, this is it
It’s really not your scene
And time proved it wasn’t
What it seemed
Try and imagine
Now listen to your heart
And you will find your passion
Once again
Cause when you try to fake it
There’s a Chance you’ll pull through…
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You can wait a lifetime
And never get another chance like this
Opportunity’s knocking, right now
What are you waiting for?
Are you afraid of what’s in store?
There’s a lot of good and bad, out there…
It’s the chance of a lifetime
Or…
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Passover is a time for redemption from exile and all kind of disasters in our lives. I really tried to make this a happier upbeat track.
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Home from work for 9 days. How is everyone doing? Stay safe and have fun on this weird global time off! got a new FX peddle , super octave, that im using here instead of a bass guitar.
Enjoy! Reef
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Thanks Movement to Contact for the backtrack... I needed the practice for sure!
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Two tracks of the Korg NTS-1 without any additional effects.
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I’ve always liked Isaac Watt’s (1674 – 1748) hymn “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” but have thought the tune, a Gregorian chant, doesn’t adequately emphasize the words. It occurred to me that it might work well with a blues rhythm and I…
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I started writing this on 3/02/20 putting the Jesus Prayer in Latin to my own melody. The words are “Domine Jesu Christe, Fili Dei, miserere mei peccatoris”, which means “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner “.
The…
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This Is a short prayer of petition to Our Lord that translated from Latin means “Lord Jesus, heal me”. I recorded it with my Martin HD 28, capo on the 4th fret.
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Strummed ,plucked and tapped soprano uke version of Five Foot Two. Oh, and a squeaky chair .
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Greek Bouzouki, Clarinet, bass and midi drum track.
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In light of what's going on today my mind has been racing nonstop to digest the situation. I had to put this track into a higher perspective.
-Creation
-Destruction
-Rebirth
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Well it's been a long while (as seems to be the pattern lately) and I was inspired by Greg and Ron's new songs.... Then I saw a lovely note from the Proods saying "I must have been writing during this crazy time" - so I had to respond with something…
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Didn't want to write this song … I figured there were one-thousand songwriters (here in north Texas alone) that were stuck at home and writing goofy songs about the virus. But, it wouldn't leave me alone, so I recorded it to get it out of my head.
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I asked Olivia to name something (in three or four syllables) that causes her consternation. Her answer, "Society". Sometimes she follows my scratch vocal line when I record a demo for her, this time she just let it rip, and it is probably the…
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Something quite sad and Melancholy about this. Could be more tan just sad but that's all up to personal interpretation.
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My post-RPM Challenge plan is to just keep going. Here's my first March 2020 Challenge song.
I am trying to go much more raw and low-fi than usual. One guitar straight into one amp. No doubling, not extensive overdubs. Same with the vocals…
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The word agony and the basic melody for the first line came first. I sat on it for a while, then one evening tried to figure out the chords for it. The verse chords followed very quickly, effectively falling out of the gtr after I had discovered…
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This one came to me as I was sleeping on a plane, delayed on a tarmac. I dreamt that McCartney was singing this, sort of. I came out of the dream abruptly when the pilot said we were finally cleared to take off. I racked my brain to figure out…
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I have had this riff for a while. It needed a song. It needed cowbell. It got both, and it's a great song to drive to.
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This one came together rather quickly -- maybe a total of one half hour total to quickly compose and record each track one after another.
For those with an interest in such things:
The drum track was "played" on a Korg KARMA keyboard workstation…
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A post-rock inspired track with an ambient, textured intro building into a distorted climax and soothing back out into an ambient closer.
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from the album "Winter of Our Discontent"
RPM 2020
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from the album "Winter of Our Discontent"
RPM 2020
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Another Sweepers original. Thanks, guys! (Not sure where the occasional snare ring is coming from, but I didn't have time to track it down...)
Willis ??? - vocals, guitar
Tommy U. - guitar
Bob P. - bass
Jonny P. - drums
Kevin C. - recording…
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Garys tune and lyrics, vocals guitars, Tom Bass, Johnny Keys
YOU GO IN CIRCLES TO GET WHAT YOU NEED
YOU LIKE TO CUT THEM DEEP THEN WATCH THEM BLEED
A MEAN MISTREATER
ALWAYS A ACE UP YOUR SLEEVE
YOU NEVER LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY
YOU…
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1980 called...it wants it's synth back. Keepin' those drums in the pocket...
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A simple little ballad. I wrote it thinking of meaningful relationships gone south.
The guitar is a Les Paul Studio through a Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator and Electro-Harmonix Grand Canyon delay.
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Music By Geoff Cox
Lyrics by Ben Blackett and Geoff Cox
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Music by Geoff Cox
Harmonica by Ben Blackett
Lyrics by Ben Blackett and Geoff Cox
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Haunting/Experimental. Last 3+ minutes slides into obscurity and deepness.
Hope you like it.
Stay healthy.
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Well, this song showed up right at the end of the recording session, and it reminded me of why I do this - and it was just what I needed.
THANKS FOR COMING
I agreed to meet
I smile and take a seat
To hear you say how I could be a star…
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Well EVERY album needs a love song!
CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOU
Doctor says my numbers aren't where they're suppose to be
Gotta change my eating habits and work out more than once a week
I know I tend to get addicted to things that make me…
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Of all the souvenirs, photos, baseball memorabilia, and musical instruments in my study, the item I value the most is one small 3x5 of my sister and me.
3x5 OF ME AND YOU
I sit with my belongings around me on the shelf
Pictures of my heroes…
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The last of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers died not long ago. Go look them up if you don't know the story. These were some of the finest men to ever serve.
CODE TALKER
Boys were dying across the ocean
Words were stolen, and codes…
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