I came up with lyrics for the backing track that ended up as Reset Your Head Again, but since I had grown to dislike that backingtrack I decided to just play the song with guitar and voice.

There's several things I tried out that worked really well here; the popcorn-synthsound from the Dark Energy, the speeding up at the end, the minimalistic hiphopbeat. The lyrics are a bit too bla-di-bla for my taste but whatever...

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original by Dashboard Confessional

original by Paramore

by Turin Brakes

At 180bpm, it's definitely way faster than I generally write. We'll call it "tempo creep". It started out at 140bpm, and got increased automatically to 160bpm when I imported some drums. I didn't notice it until later, and then found that 140bpm…

Le grand conundrum. How do you simultaneously improv a melody in your right hand while trying to teach your left hand a new harmonic pattern that it doth not know? I look at people like Gabriela Montero and wonder how on earth did they ever get…

Verse 1 Dozing in and out of consciousness the blade falls from her hand. Her clock will cease to tick, then everything will be fine. Chorus 1 It’s all good now, it’s all fine. It’s all good now, it’s okay. Fade Verse 2 Every sound becomes…

Performed by Benjamin Fingland (cl) and Sumire Kudo (vc); 28 March, 2010; Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY. Notes on the work are found here: http://digressionsthirdman.blogspot.com/2010/03/etude-on-f-113-torino-jii9-qui-moult.html

I continue to struggle with hand independence. I tried to teach myself the left hand pattern that starts the song, so that I could riff against it. But no. Just couldn’t get it. So I decided to switch to block chords for the actual melody improvisation…

My second [songfight.org](songfight.org) song. Once again, I knew about the song title for the song fight in advance, but waited for the last day to actually write/produce the whole thing.

A change up for me in that there’s no damper pedal on this one. Have I mentioned how bloody difficult it is to operate a damper pedal whilst sitting on a balance ball? Don’t try this at home folks!