This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year. The original piano version can be had here http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528 or listen to it…

I found this poem I wrote back before she left. I put music to it and recorded it night before last. Yeah, the high voice is me too. LEAVING Key Am Am Dm He rattles like a tambourine, his…

Guitars, mandolin, keyboards, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Arranger: Doug Sparling - 2005 Composer: Shaker Hymn Old demo from the basement. I love this tune and someday I'll do it justice... IIRC, I recorded and mixed this thing with a…

Guitars, mandolin, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2006 From an out of print, self-released CD I put out in 2006 (titled "The Old Stone Bridge" - not the same one as the Old Stone Bridge tracks I've released…

Guitars, mandolin, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2006 From an out of print, self-released CD I put out in 2006 (titled "The Old Stone Bridge" - not the same one as the Old Stone Bridge tracks I've released…

how do you give a daughter away? I have no clue...

an attempt to evoke the urban Brazilian scene - which has a rhythm all its own.

2010-07-03

Caveat emptor: I did absolutely none of the drumming in this piece. WORLD PREMIER! FIRST RECORDING OF THIS PATTERN - EVER! My friend Kokou "Alex" Yemey called me a few days ago with some urgency in his voice: "I must record this before…

this is a rough mix..going nowhere..so still in the works to finetune it..

Jonathan Thomas looks at what it means to be an "infant in Christ" and drink "milk"

Jonathan Thomas

Now appearing in the movie "Going Cardboard: A Boardgame Documentary". See http://www.boardgamemovie.com/ A song about a classic boardgame: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13/the-settlers-of-catan Lyrics: You find a table and put…

welcome to something stranger than fiction.

another noise rythym piece..how do you spell rythym anyways geez, its always underlined.

As chance had it, I found myself in an acoustically great room, full of cajons! Well, they were unfinished cabinets actually, but they had lovely tones. Since this is the stuff dreams are made of, I had no choice but to seize the opportunity and…

i am not that guy at the beach. the first slolo in this song is played on a half scale guitar with four strings. The second part after the pause is played on my accursed 1, theofficial nomenclature for that being lost, it is a full scale, but…

yes, that's right..your 5.25 disc drive

This song contains some of my best harmonies that are perhaps not the most well executed. My original thought was that this would be a duet, with my voice taking the low part and an alto or mezzo soprano taking the higher part. Anyone want to…

Guitar: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Written/Recorded: 2006 A "B" side from the "Stray Onto The Path" CD that I never released, in fact, I'd forgotten I'd even recorded it until today when I stumbled across the track. It's one I didn…

Really nothing more than some voice leading practice. Unfortunately, I had no keyboard or orchestral samples when I did this, so I used Lilypond and TiMidity++ and step programmed it in a text editor. I've since bought Cubase and EastWest/QuantumLeap…

This is a written by Taylor Swift, but we did our own spin off of it and put a little "man" behind it. Hope you like it! ***THIS IS THE SCREAM VERSION!!!! SEE "LOVE STORY" FOR THE ORIGINAL!!!***

Keyboards: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Written/Recorded: 2006 Another short piece I threw together when I had access to a keyboard. If I ever have any extra money, I need to get a keyboard. Though I'm technically inclined, sometimes…

this song is a mild morning movement i had while daydreaming

Fan music, plain and simple. I did this a few years ago, excited about the prospect of Casino Royale...

Entry for Zan's Current Events Compo 2010 on Trax in Space. I was inspired by the news of the solar transit of Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station on may 16. It was covered in global media, and what *really* sparked my interest…

So there I was, trying hard to complete a big production that I've been working on for ages, and I was getting nowhere. In frustration I started composing this little thing, and it quickly evolved into a nice piece of music all of its own. Funny…

Spontaneous little ditty about carelessness and always staying on the move. Quite different from the murky, depressing trite I always seem to end up composing. This started out as a loose solo guitar jam around a simple chord sequence, and…

This was a warm-up song I did in January 2010 in preparation for my February RPM Project, "Wave". I was just trying to get a vibe going and wasn't focusing on anything lyrically, hence why the title is also the only line in the song. This is…

Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission. Excerpt from a live trio experience. Trios are live, until they are dead. And then, they are just singles.

Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission. Trios, as entities, are necessarily unstable.

Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission. I liked Kelly's songs. It was strange; dweller and I changed everything, turned them inside out.

Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission.

The first time we played this tune, the drummer and I played it, spontaneously, almost exactly as this recording documents. But we'd never heard it before, had no chart, Kelly was just playing it on the bass and singing a bit, and our parts just…

I wrote this one a few year's back when my daughter was 6 years old. I finally recorded it and uploaded it to her MP3 player for her 12th birthday this year.

Syd was one of a kind. Recorded live with backing vocal added.

New instrumental. New mics on the way, so probably not for long.

Just found out that I can connect our Yamaha Clavinova to the computer. Hell up.

I thought I'd post my riff notebook as I'm working on writing this time. You know, get feedback, get told whether I'm blatantly ripping off a song (I feel like this one might be ripping off some Opeth), or find other alonetoners who want to work…