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My attempt at writing a bluegrass tune and an opportunity to try my hand at some flat pickin'
... loosely based on a friends experiences growing up in a small town in the prairies ... where everything is flat ... you know, a place where you can…
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a song that just evolved during RPM 2013...it was my new RPM strategy - record what happens, try to build it, move on, don't think too much about it...keep moving! It was a different approach for me this year...
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written during one of the several blizzards/snow storms to hit New Hampshire in Feb 2013 - for RPM...
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Movin' On
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Whatever thoughts we had
of any home we once had known
were cast off way back down the road
we're movin'on
I know we've gone too far
to ever see somethin' that's new
but that's a price I'll pay
to stay this close to you
There may…
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pictures in a magazine
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pictures from a magazine (floating)
more questions than answers (posing)
a whole lot of nothing (showing)
spaces for rent (free for owning)
brimming with treasure (hidden)
Surprises crucial (owing)
this is just…
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Country/Folk with just my acoustic guitar and my voice. An ode to my home state, North Dakota. This is a rough draft. Any helpful criticism is welcome.
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I actually wrote this awhile back, but I've wanted to re-arrange it and record it with better quality, so here it is. Everything is me except the drums which are loops.
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#RPM Challenge 2013#
"Under Watchful Eyes" is my 10th song for the RPM Challenge 2013. Thank you for taking the time to listen.
The adjoining video was filmed February 6, 2013 along the Mississippi River near Red Wing Minnesota (approximately…
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i just played some simple triads that matched the basic chord progression to Pachelbel's Canon in D(didn't try to play the original melody or anything), then improvised a few solos, hope you like it.
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a small quiet piece for a Sunday evening,, all four string sections are present here,, violin, viola,cello and contrabass,,it's kind of fun to try to mix, and pass the various themes around,,
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Dystopia
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will you cut off my arms, in this animal farm
can you rip out my tongue in this bleak '84
bring silence to their ears, and quell all their fears
big brother, won't you cut out my heart
before i see this ripped apart
as i watch…
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Instrumental track -- imagine if Tool gave up being rock stars to program video game music for the Super Nintendo console.
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I suffered an orbital fracture on 2/12/2013
this is an attempt to recreate the scene of the injury
***minus*** - the cursing
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dedicated to our "cold hearted orb that rules the night",, bassoon and french horn exchange glances with one another, cross a web of strings with a little timpani,in for the flavor,,, i have been trying to figure a bassoon into my work, so here…
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I've hidden from you for no reason at all
No context at all, just my habit, my fault
Just my habit to blame, no reason at all
Not earnest at all, just a pretext to thought
Your wish for peace, it's drowning down the well
That's where…
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LadyJane (Moonchild) and Jip messing about with a medaeval type song. Saucy ending. lol x
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A noodle that turned into a doodle which turned into a song....thats what you get when you watch David Attenborough's Africa on TV................
No Rain (Lyrics)
The earth was scorched as dry as stone
nothing anywhere wanted to grow
the Devil…
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As if I was a tree,
And would stand in the woods,
Taking the rain and the snow.
As if I was a tree,
Standing in the field,
Looking at the eternal movement of the clouds.
As if I was,
as if ...
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Jeff's tone on this and another one of our trax remind me of Adrian Belew's Rhinoscirus. kOss pHactor is a NinJam based trio of Jeff Duke, Ray Istorico and Jim Goodin, fusing electronics and improvisation in to their sound canvases.
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A lil rocker influenced by some of my faves, Springsteen, Petty etc.. well i left my home and family
and made my way out west
i lost my job at the steel mill
im a hoping for the best
in this life
for my kids and wife
just outside of Davenport…
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Harmony by [Tess Savigear](https://soundcloud.com/peppermintsky).
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I've gone a bit Bluesy on this one i got the French Horns out i blame watching BBC4...anyway hope you enjoy....
Counterfeit(Lyrics)
The night outside was as Black as coal
Her heart was made of stone
i couldn’t find no place to go
God did…
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A special "thank you" to the lovely and beautiful Itabit, for lending me some guest backup vocals for this song :)
9. Lot's Hospitality Will Save Us
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the vote was held, and by presidential order; the populace…
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Chapter 1 on a short story in concept album form.
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Andy Samford kicking ass on guitar, Brian Martin on bass, and Jim Garn (MTC) on drums... A song that was assembled bass-ackwards.
I'M FIGHTING TIME
Sitting in the movies back in 1985
The first long weekend in July
With Doc and Einstein…
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LOST IN THE GRAY
Never ran into the water on a summer day
Never had the time to find a better word to say
Never tried anyway
Never thought I'd ever try to find another way
Never even thought I'd ever really want to stay
Never knew how…
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DANCING IN THE LIGHT
Got you on my mind
Like every other day
From now until the end of time
I haven’t found a way
To take you dancing in the light
And take you running in the night
I’m thinking you just might
Like to go dancing, dancing…
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JUST AS WELL
Why is youth so beautiful
And why’s it always wasted on the young
When did my days go flying by
So many passes of the sun
There’s so much I could tell you
So much I’d like to say
It might be just as well
You never heard…
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Title Track - RPM 2013
we all clap our hands to the beat as the beat goes by
jazz & poetry in the fifties almost died
Rock n roll became the goal as people slicked back there hair
Rock, Rock and roll , the parent were in despair
Elvis was…
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Entry #4 RPM 2013
The Man
There he stands, shaking hands
smiling wide with his joker smile
promises spew out of his mouth
do you believe
all he wants to do is steal the breath that feeds your child
he don’t care
he don’t give a dam
he’s…
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"The Word is near you, on your lips and in your heart" Romans 10:8
The Word is near you
On your lips and in your heart
The Lord will hear you
He will meet you where you are
Wherever you are
Will you confess Him
Will you call upon His name
He…
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Wrote this for Amy's cousin. We sang it for the processional (we also did "Love Is All Around" and.. yes... "I Got You Babe" - and I just had Amy sing the whole thing so I wouldn't have to do my Sonny Bono voice!)
Blessed are they
who find love…
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Something we forgot about. Tucked away…until now, again.
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a wee short one
A long time has passed since we last met
I hope that life’s been treating you well
And what are you up to these days
Are you with somebody else
And do you see any of the old crowd
I wonder where they all are now
The years…
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Entry #5 RPM 2013
Pain of Loss
I’m sure i can hear a whisper, calling out the answers in the distance
the voices of a thousand men who have passed this way before
The path has been wandered a million times then they have walked through the…
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Music stems from the pic of my little girl at Biltmore. Lyrics from an intoxicated evening w/ some imagination which were written in 2010-11 in Nashville, TN and Jacksonville, FL under the influence of V...the life force...
The Words:
Sometimes…
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Thank you, Fox News, for letting me borrow some of your broadcast from the state of the union in this... song...ish...thing.
i.e. please don't sue me :)
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at the end of an evening, after the house lights have gone down, in the quietness of the hall,, two cellos, share a quiet moment.. dedicated to the old couple who have lived so long together, to parent who watches as their child sleeps, to the…
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Seagull Acoustic (Tuning FADGCF)
Recorded into BR-80 Live Rec mode
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#RPM Challenge 2013#
Written for Robert Palomo, who probably endures more winter than any of us. Check out Robert's Music:
http://alonetone.com/1rubanjoguy/tracks
Flowers Under The Snow - Written By Greg Connor
These G late winter…
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This is an transcription of a piano improvisation I did with Andrew Heathwaite’s 12 of 31 edo meantone MODMOS scale which is called Meteoroid.
The tuning I used follows (in cents)
E:\cakewalk\scales\andrews12of31edo.scl
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andrew’s 12 of 31edo…
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Gary and I did something good.
ONE AND ONLY
How many times have you been captured by a camera
With no one really knowing who you are
Caught in the sight lines in the background
In the corner of their eyes
Never looking closely at the…
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lots of different things I tried in this one, mostly in structure and vox, as well as harmony and texture. I guess it is a progressive type song with some gloom.
the intro is a short bass thing with effects called nectar, its like 25 sec.s…
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a brief night journey on the sea of a dream,,, rpm #5 halfway there!
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Greg let me have another go at one of his songs and I the wrote the words and music for a bridge
so that way he has to pay me some royalties when he sells a million !!! lol thanks Greg for your inspiration and great music!!
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A little tune to help me get through the winter ... used my 63 Fender Jazzmaster for the guitar tracks. This guitar has been with me through thick and thin and just gets better with age.
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a song based on philip k dick's 'the three stigmata of palmer eldritch'
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"I, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..."
Why
Do you
insist
on letting them
get away…
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#RPM Challenge 2013#
I was standing behind an elderly couple in the grocery store checkout line last week.
The cashier told them that someone had donated $100 toward their groceries. $100 had already been paid toward their $121 grocery…
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Only VOCALS and BEATBOX front to back to produce this full sound. Strap some headphones on and let your head be filled with harmony!
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Just did not really make the cut for RPM this year but had some good concept licks so I decided to let it sleep here.
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