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Slack key guitar and baritone ukulele.
Before modern Honolulu, there was a small 700 foot wooded island often populated with musicians and people with romance on their minds. Progress has overtaken the scenic island, but it is remembered in…
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It's the "do no harm" mix.
Because, theoretically you won't hear any difference between this and "technique 43".
Which is sad really, given how many hours I spent on it. Hours spent on the oh-so-exciting put-everything-in-Logic step…
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Some experimentation that started with sandbags saying that he was looking for a wood sound. I responded with marimba plus monster reverb... and I quickly noodled together an ambient thing.
I wondered aloud whether I was done or should continue…
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1st of 10 "Off the cuff" songs I wrote just before the great flood.
I haven't really had a chance to work on any but this one. This is different than the rest of them. All I did was turn on a drum machine and played and sang what ever popped into…
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start here at the airport
feels like im going blind
middle of the day in a dark bar
1000 miles away from peace of mind
im tring to remember
when i was a kid
did the sun set in my back yard
i think it did
what comes before and goes on…
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From Alex B's Beat Tape Volume 1
www.alexbeats.com
www.1320records.com
www.myspace.com/pnuma
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hopelessness. if you succeed now, you'll fail later. i wrote this song on a banjo :) but never got it in the recording.
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A track created for a character called Rainy, on the North walk (entitled "Life Is Monumental") of "Charm City Remix", a site-specific narrative by Kianga Ford.
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Its my youngest daughters 18th birthday today so i thought i'd write her a song to celebrate it .....we shall be waltzing with Matilda tonight
You can have it all
It was a cold day in January
just like today
when you came…
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with Rek inside the Serra Vortex Sculpture at the Fort Worth MOMA
Rek: didjeridoo, percussion
Kavin.: guitar, loops, percussion
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Reg has been searching the internet again he reads one article and believes it till he reads the next one that disagrees with it... now he's not sure on any of it ......
Fabricated Rubbish ?
Problems with no sleeping…
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Reg decided to go busking down on the subway....
On the subway
Stood on the subway playing my music
As the world rushes by
Lost in a world of my own making
I don’t get washed away in the tide
Its lonely out here where…
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Took the dobro tuned to D6 inside the Serra Vortex sculpture. With a little help from some schoolgirls passing thru.
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Under neon clouds and faded signs,
It moves through walls and crooked lines,
Glass heart beating underneath—
A ghost of what it used to be.
It’s carrying a weight no one else can see,
Invisible chains in the melody,
Smiling through the…
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This is a song I wrote on returning to the place I used to live.
I tried to record it in the 'dream pop' style as suggested for the optional theme on this month's REM Challenge.
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He walks through the city, the lights all aglow,
Faces rush past him, but none seem to know.
He whispers to shadows, he speaks to the skies,
Asking the night where his true love hides.
But the stars keep their silence, the moon turns away…
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Travel back with us to 1962…the Place, the shores of the River Mersey.
Umbrella Book is a song about a book….eh, I’m not gonna explain it to y’all.
Slap on a pair of drainies and some Italian heeled boots and you’re on your way to some nostalgic…
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(Disclosure: Despite the Aug Upload, these are no longer the demo versions I had. I just didn't want to lose my high listen count... very vain, I know...)
Verse One
I’ve walked past the alter like a ghost
With my hands in pocket afraid to…
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[Verse 1]
Integrity integral to integers
Gibberish, that of the just natural, not detritus
Firmly wound around dignity
Sea quiet, limit speech, lips just sealed
These inhabitants free radicals
Training on battleground to stand your ground…
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(samples music by Jordan River Banks and interpolates lyrics by Killah Priest)
[Intro]
Such a beautiful wedding, a beautiful setting
See Her face up in space, the Mother of Heaven, the mother of second, the mother of seven
The Sister of…
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[Verse]
Just make sure you’re happy
Just do what you want, they’re crappy
They don’t give a shit about you
It's ridiculous rude
But take yourself down because they’re wrong? That’s ridiculous too
Artists ashamed of their art, it’s sad to…
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A paper empire, built off our sweat, a too well traveled trail.
A river’s rapid flow that carries you, well beyond the pale.
Now you’ve gotten what you need
Fairy tales forgotten
And you taken what you please
And paid us next to nothing…
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Lemonade is an instrumental. It started as an early version of a co-written song with Mary Kealy Falk. We eventually settled on the 4th version of the project.
I just couldn't let this version go without doing something with it. It's the…
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minimalistic piece. Like the one as before. It was my sunshine today.
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My cover of fellow RPMer Jarrett Osborn. I wanted to do something along the lines of Coheed and Cambria mixed with a Juliana Theory vibe. I ended up more straight out stealing from them but that is the beauty of covers. You can out right copy…
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Well the Cadillac was there when I left..........
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Ok, this one has a journey for its creation. The original riff actually came to me in the heat of late August 2013. I still remember when it came to me. It was in a different key, with a slight different resolution. It felt like a hot summer's…
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This was the only song from the 2015 RPM Challenge that did anything for me at the time. I clearly remember that. What I didn't remember until I read the notes from that 2015 alonetone post (which I did about four minutes ago) was that the guitar…
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The downside of writing about politics in February of 2016 is that it doesn't have any meaning in October of 2020. Oh well. This one and "Did I Offend You" were both written back to back on the last couple of days of the RPM Challenge and they…
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I wrote this story with the intent to let the listener decide for themselves who the common thread may be.... But for me I'll dedicate this to my dear family and long time friends. Thanks for always being there for me.
I hope you enjoy…
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Another full band cover of an acoustic Kurt song. Apologies to KC for the guesswork.
LYRICS:
One less side of me
Wonder how I breathe
I know that I need
Just because
you want my seed
Seems to me that harvest’s overgrown
Step aside…
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some fun with drop C tuning
Nothing New Under the Sun ©2016 words and music by Jeff Cole
They say here’s nothing new under the sun
What there’s nothing like
Has already begun
They say there’s nothing new under the sun
You get those dirty…
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Something new here. Tilden Barger offered to arrange and produce this song. Tell me what you think.
Written by Greg Connor
Arranged and Produced by my friend Tilden Barger
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Miles Away is a very simple guitar riff and lyrics that match, but it's a song that came from the heart of one of the band's members. It's kind of a tune about a newly married couple...like most Prood songs it was recorded after one or two rehearsals…
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Haven't been about for a while...been busy doing nothing but i had some time this morning to have a strum and this is what i came up with after a bit of pondering.....Thanks for listening
One and one makes two
two in turn makes one
everyone…
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It's not really a finished, polished recording, but isn't that the point of this website? Hope you like it.
sunshine and all the dust
faded colors up above
memories of the one I loved
coulda been the one
the desert she don’t forgive ya…
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Thanks Merry Bear for cleaning this up for me!
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I have been wanting to do some Cream covers for awhile now and with the passing of Jack Bruce it seemed an appropriate time to record some sort of tribute to him and the band.
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my version of sabbath's - wheels of confusion.
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Lyrics and vocals by Starry Nightmoth. Music by Gene Eric Mann.
FIRE
Firefly --
Who invited you bright bug?
Who said your friends could come?
Who brought down the stars?
Who danced all night long
Around my burning house?
Firebug…
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from the album xChange
performed by Alex Moody
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Wrote this after hearing on the radio of a bloke who ran off to France with his underage girlfriend and guess what? he's doing time (asshole) Thanks to Lady Jane for backing vocals
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I haven't mixed the song yet - it's really raw. Hopefully, I'll have it done by next month.
Lyrics/Music by Nick Plagakis
Am I a fool to love you
Am I a fool to trust you
You took my heart
And broke it apart
Now you come back
Looking…
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Looping with nLog synth app, with Glenn's bass on top off it, and some ebow.
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A sample of the duo version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Additional Accordion, toy piano, and vocals
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jam at the Apartment above Oona's. Sounds like we were trying out old jam material we had not hit in a while.
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Couldn't think of anything to write about so i wrote about that!
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I need an electric geeetar. My weary old Crafter electroacoustic picks up every touch. 'Scuse the solo, I'm only a strummer..
Anyway, the song. Clogging up my brain, had to get it out. Some lasses don't know what they look like, and some lads…
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Reverie by Claude Debussy arranged for piano, violins, and violas.
Reverie may refer to:
A daydream
A dreamy state of mind.
reverie, an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character
“Rêverie”, a solo piano piece by Claude Debussy
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This is an ancient Christian hymn which I have put my own melody to. I chose the verses from different translations of the Latin based on how they fit the melody.
9/29, 9/30/06…
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She was a bad girl but boy did she keep me warm in winter!
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Alarm is the first instalment on our demo, to really kick it off with a bang!
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Apparently this song is the quintessential Gary Fox sound. That's probably because it's done with a special guitar with a special tuning. Anyway, my favorite part of the song is the mid-section. This is a "listen loud in the dark" sort of song.
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i tell K.G. that this one is like the allman brothers and bruce springsteen doing a tune together. another kick ass K.G. tune. we played this thing alot and nailed this take live!
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I have just received the little black songbook through the post and couldn't resist having a go at this one...
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come away, come away
away from trouble
away from care
come away, come away
away from sorrow
away from fear
may the cool wind find you
through a thousand thoughts unsaid
gather you in
weary day behind you
and you can lay your head…
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Recorded for the Songcrafters.org fest, Live in the Living Room. Cover of the Doors classic, recorded live in the - uhh - bedroom. I played my Telecaster on neck pickup through my Danelectro Cool Cat V2 fuzz and my Biyang AD10 analogue delay.
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Vaisvil sent me this great Blues tune and so i threw it down the cellar and Reg jumped all over it with his point of view on love being a Four letter word..........
FOUR LETTER WORD (Lyrics)
Love
oh Love
it's not just a four letter word…
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performed by Rob Medcalf
from the album "Sunny, sorta..."
is it funny? do I care what you say
(thinking hardly matters)
it’s not who you are at the end of the day
(thinking hardly matters)
you’re worse than a child so please go away…
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Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity…
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Chris sent this track to me earlier today with the request that I add some percussion to it.
I had something different in mind.
After the first take I was afraid to return it to him, fearing that he would convert it to 23 edo or something…
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http://chrisvaisvil.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/box_harmonics.jpg
I used Paul’s Extreme Stretch (PES) to take a hammer dulcimer + violin improvisation and divide it into seven streams based on just intonation relationships to A at 55 Hz…
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Rock from Atacama desert!
Music & lyrics: Diego Cardenas (Somno Project)
Diego Cardenas: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitars
Pedro Guzman: Vocals
Carmen Paz Nuñez: Bass
John Wooten: Drums
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This is my song Floating fully recorded at Blue Frog Studios.
Alsooo check out the video for a live version!
Enjoy :)
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when you wake up
and it feels like its further away
you get discouraged
could it have really gone unnoticed
what you're tryin to find
isn't so black or so white
it's more rooted in faith and less in fate
what you're tryin to find
isn't so gift…
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Reg took a collaboration from Chris Vaisvil, Norm and threw it into the cellar last night and this is what was returned through Regs door this morning...... a tale from the old wild west.........................
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gushing surge of opulence,
cavaliers to complete nonsense.
the true soldiers of misfortune
are mings and chengs
drowning in the democratic fabric from our nation.
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i see a path,
it's a trail.
i see a road,
thru these woods.
And on that road,
we move so fast.
we move so fast,
it changes us.
and we make the changes
we move so fast,
wheels sprout under us,
then they become wings.
and it changes us.
and not…
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Performed on Fender Mustang, Casio CZ-101 (keys, bass, percussion), vocal. Recorded via overdubbing on two cassette decks with 4 mono input radio shack mixer with radio shack 10 band graphic equalizer. Written in the years of Ronald Reagen's…
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rpm 2011
I don't want to wake up
Don't want to watch tv
Don't want to go to work
No desire to read
Don't want to take out the trash
Don't want to take off my shades
Don't want to mow the yard
I've got better things to do
Surfin round…
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Copyright issues aside, I had to share. This is funny I don't care who ya'are.
Bob Murphey live from Nacogdoches, Texas
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VOIP (dance for the solstice you fucking plastic robots)
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A different arrangement of the Leonard Cohen classic, faster tempo with slide lead
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there is a story to this song,
about friendship strong.
a careful collaboration between three artists.
Launched- guitar, vocals, and songwriting
Norm- drums sampled from his song 'surf naked'
Hot Wheels Spaulding playing, well nothing really…
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What's to say? That we actually have anything to do with what our government does? Ha! Even Woody Guthrie knew the truth. They just leave that verse out of his "anthem".
No Man's Land
Easy come, easy go. Nothing lasts for long
Pay your…
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An abuse of Brian Bazeley's Keeping the Peace by Norm Harris and myself.
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Friend of my put some lyrics to this one about his father. Hence the title.
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Sorry About The Quality of the recording on this one...
A Friend of Mine (64Guitars From Songcrafters. Org ) challenged me to write a song about a subject (a Secret....Lol)....
This was finished 45 mins Later...
Will be Good for me on Open…
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do not follow instructions/its just other people making signs/ an asphault schooner sky/ a plaster walrus eye/ why are people pointing guns at each other/ isnt that crazy/ they mad or sumptin? I just dont get it/ why dont we have/ a global bucket…
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Believe it or not, this track was written as a pretty tame little song... Then I put new strings on the guitar and it simply refused to be played slow. Enjoy it for the drive and energy. Listen to the lyrics. For whatever reason, I hope you…
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Well i gues i was just sitting bored at home in new years even and i came up with the hook , then just worked on it on and off, and ended up with this.
Hope you enjoy it :)
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Have no idea where this one came from. I was strumming away and the words just came out. Seems to be about some kind of wrongdoing in the past. May have been possessed. Thanks again to Gary for helping out on lead..
In sleepy towns through…
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A collaboration that involved 5 musicians over several parts of the world. A crazy stalker tune - Has a soft/hard/soft format. Recorded with The Boss Micro BR(MBR), Mixed with Audacity and then mastered with the MBR.
More details in the Youtube…
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This One was a creation with my friend and gran Master, Kavin. You can fin more kavin´s tracks on alonetone.com/kavin :)
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You know those people who like to break out the family photos or something of that sort with which to bore their guests? This is my version of that.
Most of what makes this song special to me is for all the same reasons that you won't share…
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Okay I need to say a few things. Please read before listening!
I did not do the 24 hour challenge but I did try and hang around in the chatroom as much as possible with Glu, SisterS, and ChrisM while they battled through it.
At about midnight…
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sexy synth pop tune.
It's still rough around the edges
but it's time to unveil the idea.
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Sudara sent me a guitar piece he was working on... So I added a song. And it didn't turn out at all as I expected.
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This is my 12 hour song (written, recorded, mixed, mastered) ... I pined away all day at it while a storm kept me company.
instrumentation:
a man lost his house and sold me his fretless bass for next to nothing. a family friend gave me…
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a moody ethereal track. recorded straight from the laptop mic, so not the best, but had to capture it before it faded away.
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Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y Sin animo de Lucro. www.carranga.org
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Grackle Live Straw Drawing improv
Miguel, percussion
Kavin., fretless Chinese junk strat, loops
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A sort of pentatonic pairs improvisation with a looper and drum machine
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I made this for the "Cooking with Deluge" challenge for July 2025, and also for my Hyperphantasia album project. It was partly inspired by the music and parade scene from the 2006 anime Paprika. I started by sampling some pots, lids, bowls, and…
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Darlin I been dreamin about the moon on the prairie
The way our voices carry, the song on the radio
Arm out the window, dipper in the sky
On a solstice night
Darlin I been dreamin about the breeze on the water
The mountain and her daughter…
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Making tunes feels like swimming through mud at the moment ... make that quick setting concrete!
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Teejay’s WRLD Praise Da Lord Lyrics
Bhad Mharn Tinz
Yeah, Am Proud To Be A Rockstar
Elevate Gradually As A Loner
Many sleepless night I no recover
With different nightmares it seems life is over
Trying my best to figure out what…
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you may fail but at least your not square .....
Don't waste life being square
You’ve got tomorrow and I’ve got today
to let all my dreams just roll away
You say theres nothing o letting it go
That there tells me you don’t know…
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Prophet 12 Desk Module
Hydrasynth Explorer
u-he Diva
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This is actually a pretty old track, made in 2011 and released under the (now defunct) Ember Music label. I only now realise it never got uploaded it here.
Alonetone bonus: this version is 11s longer than the released version!
I guess this…
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Hello, today’s topic is healthcare
I’ve worked in healthcare for a little over ten years
I got a BS in medical laboratory science
So I’ve seen a lot of things, and the public should know that, they already know that the healthcare system is…
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The Our Father in Latin and sung a cappella. I don’t really know any Latin but I’ve tried to learn to say some of the basic prayers. For me it’s a really nice way to pray sometimes and frees my mind a bit to focus on God. This melody came to…
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A friend got me excited about writing short instrumentals for Video, TV etc and posting them on Pond5 ( A site catering to that type of thing). I recorded this little banjo piece this morning.
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I Want You To Know - A A J Russe
Written 21st June 1987
Recorded 6th March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This was to the same lady who inspired Foolishness. There's a couple of others from the same period, related to her, that will…
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Cross my heart, and hope to live forever
If we’re wishing we might as well jump
Bittersweet, sepia tones rolling down the canyon,
Turning my head
So long this long refrain
So long we’ll meet again
Flying past though leave no trails…
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I developed a strong obsession with the building blocks of pop songs and tried to craft one. Unfortunately, I wrote it in a key that was high enough that the combination of the rapid-fire words and the pitch nearly made me pass out while singing…
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We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
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Another re-recorded 2014 50/90 song. This one was written on or about July 4th as New England was about to get spanked by Hurricane Arthur. I tend to write about hurricanes a lot. Weird.
The guitars here are all Gibson ES-335. The amps…
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They opened the economy here, but I don't think I feel safe going out more than I absolutely have to... and when I go out, I wear a mask.
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This is my 2nd Piece that I "wrote" in a pretty simple fashion. I started with the 2 pizzicato tracks and then Improvised 3 voices on top of that. It started as a test if I can plug in my audiointerface into my phone and it kind of worked out…
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A band version of this song
KC - guitar, vocals & mix
Bingsolex - lead guitar
Erwin B - bass, recording
Hans Nooitgedagt Jr - drums
They say that you are evil
They say that you are bad
They say you got me hooked
They say you drive…
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tuning DADF#AE and EG#DEBE
for Larry Coryell RIP
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A PICTURE I CAN'T THROW AWAY Key C
Capo @ 4
(Yes. It's a true story. I changed it to 1st person. It was a friend of my brother, Joe's.)
This audio is missing. I will have to find it in the archives or re-record it some day…
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A bit of a mess around on an old Elvis song....
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
She’s grey outside
She’s very sad
She starts to cry
It’s looking bad
The frozen ground
Won’t let her in
Yet on it comes
The flood begins
The road ahead
Has warning signs
say…
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"Est-ce Mars" (better translated to "Is it March?") is a piece of piano music by Sweelinck (1562-1621).
Writing this, I just found out that the actual theme was written by Pierre Guédron, a French…
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A collab on lyrics from the other-side......
Before i stumble and fall
Falling back through memories
I don't expect a soft landing
I'm staring at the tumbleweeds
remembering it all
i'm remembering it all
before I stumble and fall
remembering…
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A new song, still just a sketch, recorded live at Winterland studios for my demo. Story about a guy living in Tuscon, AZ, lamenting the irony of the beauty and hardship of living in the desert.
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RPM 2k15
vocal by Colin Garvey
extra guitars Brent Nolan
he’s hiding in plain sight
sends a message, don’t bother
drive away, refuse to fight
and try to be the father
left alone with the radio
and wipe away my tears
weakness reveals…
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A song in honor of my Grandad Benny.......who survived the 1st world war and lived to the ripe old age of 96........but never forgot the friends he lost.......
The Screaming The Pain And The Mayhem
it was the 28th July 1914
and nobody could…
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Blew out a fav pair of tennies. Looked like they had a million miles on them.
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Pleasure boats and fishermen
Tugboat pushin three barges wide
Sit on the banks from morn till evening
Wave to the people as they pass me by
Up in Minnesota she’s fast and cold
Walleye fishing just below the dam
Go and catch em til…
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Pitchforks glow reflecting torches held in hand by the town’s folk
Eyeballs gleam beneath the balls of flame puffing out the stream of smoke
Rumors grow, they’re telling of the child who was flung in the lake
Gnashing teeth, they scream…
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I keep pushing the pedal down and nothing is happening....
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23 - Hell's Embrace
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i don't need to love you
all you touch is all you break
(succubi always seem to love my face)
i don't need your approval
all you f--k is all you rape
(how can i crave such a cold embrace…
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Another song from old pre-garageband RPMs. The arrangement stayed the same this time. I just added some vocal harmonies and added some goofy effects.
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TURN ROUND
All your turns
All your pain
Lessons learned
Will remain
Hiding in the silence of a footstep
Some familiar sound
Walking toward the east before the sunset
Turn round
Lost in thought
Troubled mind
All you’ve fought…
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Ok, this is the full length version, so far, until the new tweaks have been done, but it's a nice reminder of cool things that can come from improv and jamming. Bass (Pete Burke, i.e. myself) and drums (Marty Boot) recorded from a jam to level…
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A Flamenco piece in palo(genre) of Taranta, ending with a little Buleria. This is about a man, who wanders like ghost along snowfields flooded with starlight near one northern city. He pointlessly looks to the sky. A kind of city legend from the…
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Heres a cover..... as my Guitar playing wasn't up to accompanying i thought i'd try it accapelo....hope you enjoy i did............
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There's the you you show the world - and the hurt that lies beneath
Insisting you're no good - damaged beyond belief
But you don't - see what I see
You're a treasure to me - and I'll make you believe - in a love thats greater than your wounds…
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Well i got the £16 special out and Bon came down the cellar for a visit last night it was a shame Angus didn't as the lead is a bit limp but hey!! were trying down here.......now with some finger drums.......
Helter Skelter (Lyrics)
i ain’t…
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I'm a hog for your beer chips and gravey.......baby!
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