Source: Guitar

Source: Guitar

This started as a test for a removable piezo pickup I got for my baritone ukulele. I was using my current Pure Data looping and oscillator patch and continued layering 6 loops off my first test and got into the groove. I added in two oscillators…

guitar and little boxes that go beep and hiss

The first RPM2020 song. For this song I setup a click track and just started playing. There are only two phrases and there are punch in's everywhere and many of them are just plain bad. I don’t believe what I want to believe I only believe…

This is an alternate mix of an RPM2020 song. I'm hoping half of my album will be arranged for acoustic guitar, hand percussion, and saxophone. I also want to do an alternate mix of each of those songs with the usual three piece rock band arrangement…

I setup a drum loop and started playing and this is what happened. The verse is a 12-bar, the chorus is the V chord section of a 12-bar. There were a lot of punch ins for both the rhythm guitar and the bass, but there was no copy and paste anywhere…

Long story... or, What the hell is a cajon anyway? I listen to a podcast about cover bands. One of the hosts is a drummer and he plays in an acoustic group. He said he played his cajon at the acoustic gigs. I thought, what the hell is…

Written by Seb James. Originally by the Callow Saints, who sadly split up last year. https://soundcloud.com/callowsaints/ For ages I've wanted to do my own version of this song, hope I've done it justice.

This one is a coffee shoppe arrangement but as soon as I had the guitar parts down I thought it would sound good with drums and bass. As soon as I had that thought I decided to do two versions of each acoustic song. Verse 1 There’s got to…

Back in 1991 I was a music major at UMass Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. I was in the audio program and I was flunking out because I had zero math skills. I was not flunking out in the instrumental music courses though. I played guitar at…

A true life story Good bless our hustle .

Written for the March Songwriting Challenge "Fast Food" offered by Carl Unbehaun, Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show. "Let's Dine In" features myself and my sweetheart Rita Beth Connor who has been putting up with my crap, often positioned has…

Can't remember if I ever uploaded this, it's an old song. A simple video here. https://youtu.be/qyqBUXIpDno

This was the first idea I had for RPM this year. It was the first song to have guitars, the first to have lyrics, the first to have pretty much everything. Why then wasn't it the first to get mixed? I don't know. I kinda like this but maybe…