Song #4 for FAWM. More solo piano. One of the things I struggle with, with all of these pure piano pieces is how much to edit/fix them. Way way back in the day, I quantized everything precisely and made all of the velocities the same. To…

An older song that was originally inspired by Prefab Sprout's "Goodbye Lucille #1 (aka 'Johnny Johnny')" but has morphed into it's current state that's more influenced by Suicide and House of Love.

This is a track I have started sometime around 2004 and just finished it in 2009.

Written and Recorded: Feb 07, 2010 Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks. 2010 RPM Challenge

Something you don't often hear from me and that's straight drummin'. On this track I left the original L/R kit track because it just sounded more raw and nasty. Listen close and you'll hear different levels on the high hat. Plus, you can…

This is inspired by Frippitronics. Frippontroncis is I call non-traditional mood music invented by Robert Fripp master guitarist for King Crimson. It involves loops of sustained guitars, in this case using an e-bow. I usually do one of these…

And how was *your* Friday night? Here I try to see just how far I can push 4 chords (that I ended up stripping down to a 1 note bassline).

This is piece that I recorded while playing in my living room one morning. It's a purely improvised piece. I just put the Mac laptop into record and began playing. I used my Goodall 12 string in standard tuning. I always include improvs when…

Day #6 and it's still solo piano. And I think this is the most I've ever written *just* piano before. I do miss patches and polish, but it's all raw material that could be built into something more later on. Or left alone. And for once, this…

Did I mention I'm taping my songwriting sessions? So I now have about 30 minutes of footage of me totally screwing around at the beginning of this session. Listening to Spotify. Playing melodies by ear and such. And then I finally decided…

This is our saddest ever song.

When I uploaded this last night I thought it was a failure, this morning I am not so sure. I've just listened to it again and, while it fails to live up to my expectations when I started, there's something about it that I like. The initial…