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I wrote this over a year ago and could not get it. the groove was too slow and so were my hands. well tzars better.
the concept came from a friend comparing his new love with a ten round boxing match . I could not resist.
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The last 6 months, I've been sight reading a Bach Chorale each morning (there are 400 of em!) and occasionally one sticks out that I really like.
This one sounded great on the Wurlitzer, which is literally note for note playing the chorale…
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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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This is a song that I wrote some years ago
I wasn't satisfied with the result and completely rerecorded it
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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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Another Sweepers original. Thanks, guys!
Willis ??? - vocals, guitar
Tommy U. - guitar
Bob P. - bass
Jonny P. - drums
Kevin C. - recording, mixing
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... from the door, in keeping with the theme of Door to Door to Door. Combination of MiniMoog model D and Roland SE-02 run through the old EHX/Zoom combo. Submitted to Sound-In for 6-8/12/2019.
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WITHOUT THINKING
capo @ 3 in C
C I do things without E thinking
Am (walk down) I admit it's true
But I do C nothing without G thinking about C you
Am I turn a corner
Em I pump some gas
F I fold a pillow case
C I wash a G glass
I stand…
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theme: the afterlife
song: displaced
lyrics:
I don't want to toss away the memory
of that elder life I've lost.
It's on me to feed my family
whatever the cost, no time for greed.
I can still see them
as I huddle in a tent…
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This is an improvisation on the Barbara Charline Jordan's 1974 Statement on the Articles of Impeachment delivered to the House Judiciary Committee during the Richard M. Nixon impeachment proceedings. From Wikipedia, "Barbara Charline Jordan was…
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Mini-Moog through EHX Stereo Memory Man and ZOOM RFX-300. Title was inspired by the shape of the over-all visual shape of the piece. Recorded for Sound-In 7-9/2/2019.
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Written for a Minnesota Homebrew Halloween Song Challenge
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Sweet Tooth Geezer
Wandering thru the backyards on a cold and hallowed night
When I saw the little children all dressed up with eyes so bright…
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A song about riding a train, in the style of early synth pop.
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Merry Christmas all!. This is a collab I did with Wrinkled shirt a while back. was originally released under Wreathwlaker.
i played 4 different guitars over WS's frosty tune, each with their own personality.
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Someone has to clean up this mess. Sometimes it's me.
lyrics
Look at me
Large and in charge, taking down names
The way to be
In control of every part of your little game
Getting things done
you don’t have to like my method or tack…
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Follow the arc through the sky
Hard to judge how high
Only steel in your spine
Pretend you can fly
For a moment in time
Only you and the sun
Trying to catch the other one
A free man's work is never done
It's just begun
Turn your head…
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Here is my contribution to the Pirate Song Challenge offered by Robert Palomo.
Find The Pirate Challenge Here:
http://alonetone.com/forums/making-music/topics/challenge-pirate-some-music
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I once…
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I decided to pick a few chords at random, just like that, wrote them down and then somehow tried to make a melody with it, no idea how, but it worked :-) I then added some lyrics et voilà...here's the result. A quick "just for fun" project. I…
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He Leads Me Home by Tom Brandow
From the first time I fell, till the last time I’ll fall
Jesus is there to lead me home.
From the first breathe I took, till the last one I’ll take
Jesus is there to lead me home.
He Leads Me Home, He…
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THE LESSON
I saw her in a music store in Fort Worth, Texas
I'd driven in to buy some strings
It was like getting hit by a little fist in my solar plexis
when she said, “Can you help me tune this thing?”
She had a smile. A thin disguise…
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This chord progression is a Bach rip-off.
I forget which piece...I've been studying Bach with a fantastic teacher for a few years here in Vienna. So it's some piece we did a couple years back.
It takes me a couple months to really "master…
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Like A Wave
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If you make yourself a mule
someone's gonna ride you
this I know
Like a breeze moves through the air
or a wave upon the water
is how I go
When you can freely give
of all that you can hold
you can know no more…
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Cover of a Baroness song March to the Sea. I decided to drop the vocals for now until I can sing them better :) Enjoy!
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Title track from the album I'm Your Geography Teacher.
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another sad one...Will she?
Blue Skies Fillinf with Rain
F D D7 Gm C C7
F D D7 Gm C C7
Bb C C7 F
She's smelling the last rose of summer
The stem stands high in her hand
Looking at its colour
Can this really be the day, summer ends…
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Piano song concept for title screen of a videogame or other scene within.
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See how they gossip and gabble. From the sidelines, they direct the dance as the young ones grow.
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Looks like a great year for more fishing /guitar playing /beer drinking /.Cheers
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Guitar,Soundscaping,Mix
Paul H. Muller (Repose 2)
Shane W. Cadman (Piece102414)
Paul Mimlitsch (swimming through lead)
James Bailey (Atom Chant)
Steve Layton (Copper Canyon)
Chris Vaisvil (They Ripped my Metal…
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The train is coming and it's bringing her back
SMOKESCREEN
the trains coming, bringing my baby back to me
that trains coming, bringing my baby back to me
i want to know whats she been doing since she been gone
i want to know if she done me…
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Intermittences is about memories coming and going, sometimes hurting. It is about ups and downs.
This part is about felling fulfilled, but it is a dream. At the end you wake up. The harmony is still in you, but a part is lost and you feel alone...
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This one was forced. I had just finished recording guitars on another couple of songs and made myself come up with something new. I wasn't very into it at all, but now that it's finished it's not as bad as I thought it would be.
The lyrics…
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The music was written in a hotel room in upstate New York. How rock and roll is that? I occasionally find myself very inclined to throw electric pianos at everything. This comes from such a phase. The part in question here was recorded using…
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I have no clue what the lyrics are about. I guess maybe it's about not wanting to go to work on a Tuesday morning and looking for some existential way out? I don't know, something stupid like that.
The music to this was written while I was…
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GOOD-BYE
I don't want to say good-bye
But I have to go
Catch the train that's heading West
Do another show
I don't want to make you cry
There's no other way
Give your weary head a rest
Carry on the day
- Don't know how to say good…
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A song about the culture of fear in the world today. It's heavy and Anthraxy!
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"The Inner Light"
Without going out of my door
I can know all things on Earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of Heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
Without going out…
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Lyrics and music by Nicolas. From Strawberry Moth's _It Rises_ album, ca. 1992.
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Another in the ninjam series.
Kavin., Jim Goodin and Ray Istorico, remix from tracks 4/20/14 session, remixed by Ray.
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U Make It So Hard (to say goodbye)
Lyrics - Boudreau
Music - Mairano / Boudreau
I just cant shake it no
I cant fake it no more
I try to make
it but i just cant get out the door
I wanna break it but its something
i don't wanna pay for…
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In a kinda Folky mood. Maybe the sad loss of Pete last month and watching the British Folk awards, so, dug out an old one that always came out when we had friends around for drinkies , a bit of grub and a chat. My be a few more to come, while…
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I did this as a way to practice singing....why I am trying to learn to sing at 64 is a little strange.... I wish I had leaned to sing when I was starting out..but I always played in band with lots of singers and never had to sing much…
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Live piano, no sequencing, its just my fingers, music made up on the fly. This is me just being creative, its how I "write" my music.
2nd track of flute is also played live over the piano.
Roland FP7 Stage Piano, Ableton Live, Onyx 1640i Mixer
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I am a songwriter and entertainer this song is one of my favorites. It's called "We Got It Going On" It's about riding ATV's Hope ya all like it.
Bobby Johnson
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Goes on the Dance of the Dying Fire album, I shortened it because I used the reggae bit that was at the end in another song. It's a bit of fun!!
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from the album xChange
performed by Vivian Circle
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Justin Otter Guy (just another guy) and Gene Eric Mann (generic man) are the same musician. My originals are penned as Gene tunes (alonetone.com/mythopoetica) and my covers are uploaded as Justin tunes (/redshirt).
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Walking alone in late February
Thinking on friends I’d lost
John and Sean and Christopher
Ryan, Ian, and Mark
Some of them fell to fever and drink
Some to women or song
One of them made it to the good life
But all of them are gone
All…
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This is a longish one so crack open a beer and make yourself comfortable!
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This the first track to a little project that I and a few friends did. The horns that you hear were not originally going to be in the song and once they were added, we realized we had a very unique sound! The other posts I will be sharing with…
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Cover of the Smiths song from 1983.
One of the big influences on my life.
For the Songcrafters.org fest.
I've added my own 'Newport Remix' at the end in the style of 80's remixes.
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For a Roleplaying game that I do with a few friends of mine on Wednesdays. GM is particularly credited due to his aptitude as a GM for a survival horror genre game. Good times, good times.
As this is a track for a survival horror styled roleplaying…
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Ken sent me over this great backer and said his idea when making it was telling the story of a boy he knew as a kid who overcame huge obstacles and grew into a happy and succesful man….so i took that into consideration …and started………... i'd been…
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Florencia - I would telll you the chords
but I don't know what they are...
The tide is going out in Avila
I can feel it in my blood
Here I am in South beach Florida
Just like you knew I would
Florencia, I've been waiting…
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put this together over the weekend after smelling that bacon ... A funky bacon jam ,,, just having some fun... Caution vegetarians!
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Needle Of Light formed in Pennsylvania in 1999 when members Margarine, Sounds Of The 70s, Liquid Plum-r and Dogs learned it was cheaper to rent a band rehearsal space than an apartment; to further their ruse, they brought instruments into their…
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Well Reg has fell off the wagon and wants to party on……theres no looking back……it's full on ….PARTY!!!
Party On (Lyrics)
Yeah i feel good i’m ready to get it on
i feel like i’ve been dead. i been gone so long
my mind is alive and im ready rock…
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All source files come from apps on my phone. This is best if you download the 200M video and play full screen http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=3034
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Some people talk to me
Ask me what I do for a living
Use some rocks to grind my grain
Little bit of whiskey to tickle the brain
Valley fever giving me rest
Smokestack choked out to my west
Drink a little of the H2O
Give it a little…
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I was going to add more, but kept wondering what, and by then it had grown on me, so here it is. lol.
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Got a new recording thing for Christmas. It's kinda hard to keep time between tracks without being able to listen to the other ones. Still, it's a start. :-/
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them damn aliens keep jamming my frequency with their incessent chatter.
And bongos.
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Gene has woven his magic again around this classic by Thin Lizzy...Thanks Gene i couldn't ask for better backing....hope you enjoy as much as it was a pleasure to do.............
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Sometimes we decide to do things just to find that it takes more than making a decision to actually do things.
WASTED TEARS
There'll be no wasted tears running down my cheek
There'll be no wasted cries in my troubled sleep
No wasted hours…
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I know EXACTLY what you're thinking.... and the truth is, I dont have a clue as to why its called "Crab Telex Myth".
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Built from samples obtained from photographs via that very handy i2sm programme.
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w/m
oldrottenhead
On Norwegian shores
Neath the autumn sky
Sitting by the water’s edge
Counting bees and flies
I’ll soon be going home again
I’ll be saying goodbye to my friends
On Norwegian shores
The sunlight bright
See a million stars
When…
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This was written as an instrumental at first and then the words for the chorus came to me. i was goign to leave it at that but on the following Sunday - the Sunday after Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)the verses came to me during mass as I heard…
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This a song for the lenten season, contemplating what it must have been like for Jesus during His 40 days in the desert after being baptized by St. John, His cousin.
Forty Days
To the desert Jesus Christ was led
And for forty…
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If the baby falls
The crib shall age empty
all of the earth
which ever lived
creation everyday
if the baby falls
it would leave the crib quite solo
The sources who join to nurture cries and giggles
Won't change diapers anymore
If our baby falls…
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For my Wife
Liz and the boy are currently staying with her sister by the coast.
Just to catch some chill time after all that has happened this year.
They are gonna spend the school holidays up there.
Should be cool for the both of…
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A fun lil recording of a Howlin Wolf classic. I love the original.
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Had a bad day when I wrote this.
There is a rule I stick by though.
"Divert and sublimate your anger and potentially virulent emotions to creative energy"
So I did..
Picked up the Kay G101 and pressed record on the iPhone voice memo…
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Song about a hundred years old. and for to many life still sucks.
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Most of the lyrics written in 1999, a tough year. Many thanks to JB for his awesome screaming lead playing (done first take, I should add!!!) and to LadyJane for supplying some oooo's. (anyone needing some vocals - send her your song!)
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Rather, it includes Norm's excellent track Pilón For A New Son (http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/piln-for-a-new-son). Was trying to find out how less I can get away with in rhythms while still having enough flow. Feedback welcomed :)
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From a songwriting project I took part in, recording 17 songs in one day... This was created on the fly! The album ended up being called, 'Gandhi At The Buffet...'
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this is a remix of my original song "If You Were A Song." Hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoyed making it!!
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BLUE CORVETTE by Jeff Prince
Friday afternoon I stop to cash my check
Buy a case of Bud and pack of cigarettes
Oh, something to shake. Oh, something to break.
Someday I’ll be riding in a blue Corvette.
I could get myself a corner Laundromat…
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have you ever been going about your business, and you get sucked into a brightly colored, blocky realm? it seems you can not die, when mortally wounded you just come back to where you were like 5 minutes ago...you master this 8 bit realm and become…
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Speech samples by acclivity over at freesound.org
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details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2193
NOTE: meantone refers to a tuning method, not the guitar tone.
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And the world we found is a little uncertain now It’s a little uncool but I am here w/ you
If you cry tonight sit beside me I will hold you tight
Everything will be fine we will stay on this ride
On a shallow road we will go and follow the…
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Cover of the sinister Doors song.
I'm reading a biography of Jim Morrison at the moment, not the first I've read either.
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in 11/8 meter at 176 BPM if you are so inclined to add to this..
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This song is about the RPM Challenge; having 28 days (yes, I cheated, this year we get 29) to write and record a 10 song album. The illustrious Ghost Tea (http://soundcloud.com/ghosttea) added some rhymes to make it extra special!
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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This one I might expand on after RPM. I think it could be good.
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Cover version of the 1979 Telex song. This is the French language version because it's the only one I know - didn't even know there was an English language version till I went looking for the lyrics.
The drums are programmed on my BOSS DR…
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The insecurity of criticism to the nowhere man ......... I didn't have time this evening to put any music to this so i've put an old instrumental (The Turkish Lout) to it.....hope you enjoy my little drama about that nowhere man....(Be Warned…
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LISA MAKES APPOINTMENTS
Capo @ 3 in C
C stepping down G
Lisa makes appointments for her friends to come and cry
She’s got a comfy shoulder and an empathetic sigh
Am. F. Am. F
Lisa’s…
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Dave Tanner's rendition of his Sunny, sorta... song at the release show Nov. 5. that's me on the Ooos in the background.
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