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The vocals are hard tohear cause it was recorded badly...
I feel like getting drunk
I dont feel its gonna get better
I've tied my hands to my back and its done
Nobodys in the mood for summer
I think the ghosts have come home
Done it before…
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Reg has been philosophising about life tonight and this is his conclusion............
LIFE IS LIKE A WAVE
The body is the sea and life is the wave
Life is just like a wave
Life is just like a wave
Life is like a wave gaining power
Life is like…
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A Song I wrote about a friend of mine who used to Jump out of planes a lot.
This is one of the hidden tracks on my new album "Black Cat" which features Beth, Keith and Reewfwalker from alonetone and Geir and Jim from Songcrafters.
Here is a…
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Ah, I made a video about the little hedgehog who is living here in a room in our house. He was in our garden, in the snow, looking for food. He was way to small to survive winter (the young ones at least must be 600 grams); Uk was ill and 220…
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Just added my vocals to the bed track I have of this recorded several years ago. I know the original singer is MUCH better but because I do not have his contact details, I thought I'd try my own spin of this song.
Word & Music Errol Chugg…
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Steady, hold your heading
The landing strip's in sight
Keep your wits about you
Hold your values tight
Storms gather in the distance
Crosswinds on the ground
Freedom on the glide path
Will always get you down
FREEDOM! There's nothing more important…
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Reg's little homage to Elizabeth Taylor who passed away today, the piano is a little dodgy and the lyrics and the singing in parts as i'm following my dodgy playing, it will have to be revisited but i thought i'd share anyway as i would forget…
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I've been told that drowning is a dreamy way to go.
THE ANGELS CRIED "NO!"
He lived high on the mountain top
He lived there with his love
He tumbled to the valley deep
When she gave him a shove
And when he hit the valley deep
It must…
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This traditional Cuban rhythm is the well established "go-to" pattern for 4/4 songs. It is perhaps the most commonly heard conga pattern in 4/4 music. The bongo pattern that accompanies the congas is referred to as "martillo" (the hammer…
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My first RPM cover of 2011. This one is "Like This" by The Missed Connections. I seem to have taken a darker turn with the song than Amelia did. It wasn't intentional, but it seems to be what I do when I cover her songs.
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An improv in a found tuning. E and A strings tuned WAY down so they're slapping the neck:
A(low) E(low) C# E A C#
Super full moon tonight! (View More for video)
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Vocals - Kelly A2
Drums - Digital Drummer
Bass - HAZ
Guitars - Clayville
Piano, words & music - Errol
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Words - Steven Chugg
Music & Vocals - Errol Chugg
Guitars - Nod
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From: youtubechannel RoelekesPlace | Made: 25 feb 2011
Have to find out some more about my organ. So I gave it a try once more. And ofcourse had to play with the video of the organ and me playing on it.
I hope you like it.
Also I love to play…
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Recorded for RPM 2011 (http://rpmchallenge.com). Recorded in February 2011 in Tempe, AZ.
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Recorded for RPM 2011 (http://rpmchallenge.com). Recorded in February 2011 in Tempe, AZ.
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Vocals - Ali-Kat
Piano - Paul D
Bass - BP1964
Drums & Percussion - Smurf
Rhythm Guitars - SnowdogUK
Lead Guitar - SnowdogUK
Words & Music - Chesook.
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A nine-minute meditation piece. Gear: Roland JX-3P, Korg Monotron, acoustic guitar, soprano & alto recorders, bamboo flute, and junk percussion samples.
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Prayers to the folks in Japan, We dodged a bullet in Hawaii!
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Vocals - Ali Kat
Guitars - Norm
Drums - JWoo10
Bass - Hazz
Words, Music & Keys - (Chesook) Errol Chugg
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For Dave.
Blues Man and Capt'n Beefhearts Long Lost Brother.
Passed away from Cancer on Friday the 4th of March 2011, aged 62.
You Were a Great friend and taught me alot about music and life.
Peace be Upon you Bro....
See you and your…
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11 notes per octave (11 edo) has been a tuning that has generated a lot of music later. Not wanting to be left out I decided to take some time to compose a piece in 11 edo using Garritan Personal Orchestra. As a subject matter suitable for…
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The (mostly) true story of my friend DAVe and his quest to finish college.
You laid down the challenge
You said you want to hear a song about a donkey again
Well, I'm here to tell you
I have a little story about my friend
He put himself…
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Track 9 / Band: The Anchorage Drift / Album: The Anchorage Drift (2010)
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Slightly rocked up version of this great traditional folk song.
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Words & Music: Errol Chugg
All Instrumentation: Nick Testa
Vocals: Bill Heinowski
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Guitars, Drums, Production: Nick Testa
Guitar, Vocals: John Van den Oetelaar
Words & Music: Errol Chugg
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Keith Landry used his considerable vocal talents on this song, and he made a decent song sound great. I added one or two harmonies, but the lead vocals are his. I think he did a great job. What do you think?
ER
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The title track to the new album. Turn it up. Listen all the way through and there's some ear candy at the end for you. ;)
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Get on your bellbottoms, and get out on the floor. There's more to the song than you realize, but just dance baby, just dance.
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Hello 1977! This song sounds like 1977 to me. So, I totally played it up, right down to the reverb on the vocals. Enjoy.
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Originally meant to sound more Hendrix-ey, this one informed me that acoustic was the way to start. As always, the song was right, I was wrong.
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Songs sometimes are best left to the listener. This is one of them.
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A brief glimpse, but that's all. Inspired by last April. It's for everyone, but no one in particular. Yes, this one gives more than a passing nod to Ham and Evans. Thanks gents!
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It's about a few folks, some known, some known to me. I liked the chunkiness of the chord that starts it, but wanted to do something a little more 'spacey' than a pure rock number. It's all true too.
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This song started as the riff on my Strat while fooling around with some FX. I knew it needed to be a big dance number, and then realized there is a great story about the power of music and dance, which I hid in the lyrics. See if you can figure…
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My contribution for Johnny with Norms excellent percussion. I've given it a bit of an Indian twist.......
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Sassy Nation version!
Sister Savage and Mr Sandbags collaborated on the original of this wonderful heartbreaker of a song. I've been playing it on the guitar the last few days and it always seemed to come out with a grittier tone, so i asked…
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For the lyrics I tried to "paint a picture" rather than tell a story or make a clear point. I was thinking of Caroline No by the Beach Boys about a girl who suddenly lost the glow of youth. The lyric is not quite succesfull but... it will have…
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This song is all about everyday life. working all week and living for the weekend.
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The piano track is a mangled version of the already-mangled piano from the previous song ("The Saucers Arrive").
The plan was to try to improvise in a way that was somehow rhythmically compatible with the skittering piano track. The guitar track…
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This FaceBook friend of mine posted the first line and I went with it.
THE CORNER - G (if capo is at 2 it sounds more like Neil Young.)
C D
G Am…
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It's a cover of the Boston song, More than a Feeling. In a sort of euphoric house style. Which isn't my normal style by any means.
It's not a song which has been a big part of my life, I heard it in the Men Who Stare at Goats film and could…
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A few months back we had a "Beatlesfest" on songcrafters.org.
I contributed this and Yesterday.
This one's a bit of a departure for me. Not the song itself - it's been one of my favourites ever since I was tiny (I preferred Robin Gibb's…
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February
t boudreau
I'm stuck inside of February
With little chance of escape
And all you bar-stool visionaries
giving me advice that you'd never take
Wanna seat on a slow boat heading
South down a stream that seems to never end
Or…
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Simple Plan
T Boudreau
Wandering soul, do as your told
and come back inside it's getting cold
I've been waiting here with hope n fear and my hands on the wheel til you decide to steer
Mr. Hollowtree you're a mystery to me you stand tall…
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Final Version
If in doubt write more songs
with Kazoo solo! and heckling!
this is as close as i got to some hokum jug band
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This was going to be a re-make of Dancing on my own but reg was too busy to participate so i have used Norms percussion track and got Chris Vaisvil to bass it up and i have added a vocal creating something new. Reg has had a lot of trouble with…
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Reg has decided to write this song about an English serial killer known as the Crossbow killer to make those young trusting women well aware that some men are not always what they seem ................. as in the case of Stephen Griffiths who…
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Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
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This is an experiment in stacking real time delay/looped tracks that had no preconceived connections... all overdubs were done without listening to previously recorded tracks. I hear some very interesting synchronizations.... You?
RPM 2011
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Harmonica by Dr. K
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Paper hearts in your window
paper hearts on your door
Paper hearts ripped in pieces
And Strewn across the floor
but who am I to question
The intentions of old…
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AK wrote this after seeing a photogragh of an American Marine giving cookies to Iraqi Children
Done live
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RPM 2011
You say the world is too complicated
You say close your eyes forget it all
Nobody sold me a bridge in the desert
Nobody remembers with our eyes closed tight
You say somedays just a point of view
You say someones not much different
Nobody…
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RPM 2011
So wide awake the hands are still
Too tired to keep them silent
It barely pokes above the surface
It hardly registers among the crowd
So long and waves the farwell
We’d better tell the authorities
Goodbyes are so beautiful
Disappear…
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RPM 2011
It's a song where we can sing along
All the day and all the night
Shoot the breeze if you can't sing it right
Dance away now melody, dance away now
It's the way to fail more gracefully
See me jump up and fall to pieces
It's sad…
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This song was written about being regressed under hypnosis , to discover what happened , when as a young boy i started a fire in a cornfield , and hid from the trouble i knew would ensue , it was recorded live
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This was written as part of a concept album inspired by the work of Pablo Picasso ,Trevor Lewis is a member of Songcrafters music forum , he came up with the idea of writing poems to 12 Picasso paintings , then put them out for people to put music…
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Two Freesound sample used here that's worth noting:
* 97189 epanody_samplescene2
* 18450_zippi1_sound_singing3
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I guess it's a semi-sequel to Emote. One of my mellower ones.
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Final version
Guitar, mandolin and voice.
this doesn't fit with my rpm project AT ALL so i may not use it but i like the way it came out. I recorded the music for Bethan Mathis' RPM project but she didn't have time to use it (her album is…
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The music is a repeat - but the video is new. Press "more"
Sister Savage had the original idea for the "holy haunted aquariums"
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Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
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So I dropped the guitar into DADGAD tuning for the first time, threw a capo on the third fret, rifled off something nice, and sent it to Movement to Contact for his contribution, got it back, did some mixing...
Here is the result.
YOU NEED…
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Written and Recorded: February 22, 2011
DADGAD, DADGBD
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Reworked the vocals a bit (quite a bit). And yet again! And now, Gumbo Stu is singing backup bits. Thanks for the vocals Gumbo, a very welcome addition!
And, as requested, here are the lyrics:
I'm Not Afraid
You can blow me up
You…
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Lyrics:
Skip ahead to her in pants,
watch her dance in the living room
in front of all the other dinner guests.
She thumbs her nose at simulacra,
but someone must play Cleopatra
in the PTA's yearly drama fest.
Her husband broke his body…
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This was based on a flying dream I had months ago.
(Actually, more like a crashing dream, since while I was able to pilot myself into the heavens, I guess I forgot to turn off gravity.)
The fellow described appeared in the dream, casting…
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jazzsequence - bass, mix mangler
daedae - spacey, acoustic guitar
Jahn - Electric Guitar Analog Effects
Commoner - Found and common percussion
jesmiaus - flpitchervocals
Uncle Tompa - Percussion and Ambient Synth
Ronny Wærnes - contact mic feedback…
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This is a piece written for a small ensemble of Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn and Percussion in harmonic series tuning using a section from harmonic 12 to 30 reduced to an octave tuning of 15 steps.
This piece is…
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Just a little song about another hopeless romantic. Actually, I just really like the name Svetlana.
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I wrote this because It seemed like the proper thing to do. I had considered casting it into the abyss, but thought better of it when I heard angelic voices emanating from within its belly.
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This was one of several songs I recorded in a session on the night of my 29th birthday. I had decided to just start playing and see how many tunes I could write straight through without stopping. My only rule was that these tunes had to be totally…
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An unaccompanied song about bedtime. Not a lullaby though. Oh no!
What does anyone think of the 'cat's moustache' line - it seems like that's a make or break call right there and i like it when i read it but it's hard to sing without…
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I was Inspired to record this song by the Comet Temple One that was photographed from outer space just recently in the news
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Another page from my "sketchbook". This is typical. Not much detail. But a real feeling or two emerges. Like a potters perfectly turned shard or the poet's beautiful line that she's never found more words to join with...
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There was only one helping of biscuits and gravy left, which I warmed up for my son, who stormed out the door stating emphatically that he was off to join the Navy instead of going to school and so there I was, having gained a good breakfast while…
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One of my heroes. Willie McTell was blind from birth and travelled all over the south in the thirties at a time when many people would never go more than 20 miles from their home.
Plus nobody sings the blues quite like him…
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This time paying homage to grandpa. Did I miss any dead folks out this album?
I often stop and think of William
Up on Skinners Ridge
He passed me on his way back down
As I passed from being a kid
A shame you’d say
But aint that the way
Things…
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