F*ck yeah, I had some fun with this one.
I broke my brain today
It wasn't that pleasant hey hey hey
If I seem a bit confused
That doesn't mean my brain has been abused
Stomp brain stomp....
I broke my toe yesterday
I stubbed it on the door…
F*ck yeah, I had some fun with this one.
I broke my brain today
It wasn't that pleasant hey hey hey
If I seem a bit confused
That doesn't mean my brain has been abused
Stomp brain stomp....
I broke my toe yesterday
I stubbed it on the door…
Pro Tip:
No amount of multi take recording features will fix it when you're flat/sharp on *all* of the takes.
Based on a true story.
Lyrics:
There's something wrong in the world today
I just can't believe it
I just can't believe it
It's the…
A cappella. Beautiful. really.
Good tip too. I have a bad habit of recording over, and keeping flat tracks thinking I might cover it up. Silly me.
Oh, and buy used books. The notes are already in the margin :)
1) pick up 15 year old guitar
2) tune it
3) trim fingernails
4) look for guitar pick
5) abandon search for pick
6) tune guitar again
7) browse through Logic channel strip presets
8) find "Mystery Chorus"
9) play simple melody
10) ???
11) PROFIT…
Based on a true story.
If you listen closely, you can hear me drop a half note over the course of the song. Apparently, I flounder without a pitch reference.
Based on a true story.
If you listen closely, you can hear me drop a half note over the course of the song. Apparently, I flounder without a pitch reference.
I am not BT, so no rain drops were quantized in this production.
Storm was recorded last night on my Tascam DR-07 (with wind filter and limiter).
Just a simple piano improv. That of course had to be tweaked far out of the improv stage.
I am not BT, so no rain drops were quantized in this production.
Storm was recorded last night on my Tascam DR-07 (with wind filter and limiter).
Just a simple piano improv. That of course had to be tweaked far out of the improv stage.
Makes me think of squirrels plotting against each other. I believe this goes on, so it's good it has a soundtrack now.
This project is brilliant. I don't know how you do it.
I'm convinced that composing/recording daily is the best way to really find out if a DAW fits your workflow. And I think Ableton Live nailed its final nail in the coffin for me tonight.
See, if I weren't writing so much, so quickly, I would be…
I'm convinced that composing/recording daily is the best way to really find out if a DAW fits your workflow. And I think Ableton Live nailed its final nail in the coffin for me tonight.
See, if I weren't writing so much, so quickly, I would be…
I'm convinced that composing/recording daily is the best way to really find out if a DAW fits your workflow. And I think Ableton Live nailed its final nail in the coffin for me tonight.
See, if I weren't writing so much, so quickly, I would be…
So I still hate Ableton Live with a passion for anything piano related. But things seem to go better if I head straight to arrangement view once I'm out of the improvising stage and do my recording there, rather than trying to think that session…
In 2006 we visited a Japanese garden. In September of 2009 I wrote this piano piece in 17 ET and I hear a connection between the two. So I put together a video from pictures and video taken of our visit and married the two. Please visit the song…
As someone who's only accustomed to the western tuning system (shows my ignorance that I don't even know what it's called), this was very different and very striking.
How are you going about getting the different tunings? Are you tuning an acoustic instrument or doing this via a plugin?
Love like a salt river washing away
Love's like sunshine evaporate
Love like floating candles blowing away
Watch out for the way you'll compensate
When I've seen all you have to give
When I'm still hungry
I need more than this
Tell me how…
Okay so here it is, this is the blues piano piece I've been learning since **forever**. Tonight is the first time I've been able to play it through, twice, without making some kind of mistake.
That said I had to slow to 80bpm which is too slow…
Dig this! Keep on posting these, because this is inspiring.
Maybe I'm nuts, but it almost makes me think that maybe those of us on alonetone who are trying to improve on the piano could form a group for mutual encouragement purposes, and post what we're practicing.
Written and Recorded April 18, 2010
Some people accidentally delete tracks...I accidentally kept this one :)
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, Capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity.
The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution.
(Tolar & Savigear 2010)
This composition is a remix/reincarnation of a [previous tune](http://alonetone.com/gcd/tracks/seven-flavors-of-milk) I wrote a while back. I wasn't ever quite satisfied with it and had neglected to incorporate a nifty additional bit of melodic…
A typical folk song.
Written and recorded in about an hour for the 24 hour album (attempted on March 13th). Excuse roughness and vocal glitches, it was 2am and this was my first full take.
Thanks to montgomeru for his chord suggestions…
This tune will always hold a special place in my heart for it was the perfect ending to the 24 hour challenge.
Just wish I had been the one to write it! :)
Gurgling, bubbling, churning.
This is the last track of the March 2010 24 hour challenge.
The process...
- find some interesting synth sounds (have collected many)
- work out some basic chords
- do some filtering
- add two tracks of e-bow…
This was a piece I made with Reichatron back in January and, at the time, didn't upload.
I had the odd experience of momentary unfamiliarity, enjoyment, and a sense of "Did I make this?"
Listening to it again I enjoy the way it drifts in…
I spent 15 hours composing and playing this or, I should rather say, this is the sole product of 15 hours of sitting with Live & my piano.
I think there is the kernel of something good in it (and I intend to explore that later) but the…
I mostly wanted to make music with a funky clav line I'd come up with, so this is it. For the voiceover, I unabashedly used an awesome monologue by Ken Nordine.
So question for you.. how did you record the piano for this album?
And I realized later that you hadn't specifically asked what I was using on one of my piano songs.. so to answer your earlier question: It was Reason+Record for that song, with "built-in" sounds as well some refills (notably the Reason Pianos that I mentioned).
Lovely!
To answer your question... currently I'm using the Reason pianos refill. I've also used NI's Akoustik, Ableton Live Suite's grand piano, and an Alesis QS7 in reverse chronological order. :)
Well, song 10 finally. A bit on the heavy side, some odd FX, strange vox, an Ibanez, The ever present harmonica, and some help from Illegal Alien Autopsy.
This was the first song I tracked for RPM. But, since my pen has run out of ink this month…
I guess I knew this would happen. Talk about creating one's own reality Sheeeeesh. End of the month and my pen has been re-fueled and I added some vox to this one, plus some lead guitar, and a bit of synth strings. I also took a shot at some…
Post RPM jammin'. I don't feel much like cleaning up after RPM. Not yet anyway. I think my little Casio took a beaten and went out of tune. I did this arrangement with just the Casio, guitars and
harmonica, hence the annoying piano and strings…
Old Paint Ver.II
Continued from Old Paint Version I............
So, I plugged in the cat eater, hit distort and it took on a whole new feel.
I added bass(finger is tore up now), more drums, and low level fuzzed up leads.
The ghost…
Written and Recorded: Feb 14, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
Comments on yelyah's stuff
This one is awesome! Love it love it love it!!!!
Great fun- mine is permanently broken!
I just adore the pipes. I'm going to get a set one of these days. I wish it was longer. Heart felt none the less.
A cappella. Beautiful. really. Good tip too. I have a bad habit of recording over, and keeping flat tracks thinking I might cover it up. Silly me. Oh, and buy used books. The notes are already in the margin :)
Scratching out a lovely melody here...and JUST how foxy do you sound, girl?!
Soundtrack to a first sweet kiss.
You had me from the start...BEAUTIFUL! w;-)
Lovely melody... w;-)
Pretty melody- I missed this one of yours.
Makes me think of rush hour. Love how you keep mixing it up! (And your "about" descriptions are always marvellous!)
Girl. You got it.
Another voice! What an amazing girl you are. And if that's floundering, I would say you don't have much to worry about!
The storm is the perfect backdrop for this- nice!
Love it - storms are my new big thing!
Very cool- had to come back and check it out again. Love it when the bass drops out and then re- appears
Makes me think of squirrels plotting against each other. I believe this goes on, so it's good it has a soundtrack now. This project is brilliant. I don't know how you do it.
Rant on Yelyah- just keep making tracks like this- great!
Love the addition of the synth here - lovely full sound. Would love to hear your vox on here too.
This is good mate like it very much
Another beauty!
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As someone who's only accustomed to the western tuning system (shows my ignorance that I don't even know what it's called), this was very different and very striking. How are you going about getting the different tunings? Are you tuning an acoustic instrument or doing this via a plugin?
Love it!
Dig this! Keep on posting these, because this is inspiring. Maybe I'm nuts, but it almost makes me think that maybe those of us on alonetone who are trying to improve on the piano could form a group for mutual encouragement purposes, and post what we're practicing.
Lovely! Keep on accidentally keeping these pieces! :)
Lovely! More more more!
looking forward to more!
Dig all of the different musical bits going on in this one!
This tune will always hold a special place in my heart for it was the perfect ending to the 24 hour challenge. Just wish I had been the one to write it! :)
I dig all of these. A fantastic 24 hour effort. And I second what Kirk said, I want to be a fly on the wall in your studio! :)
I always dig your crazy otherworldly sounds! And yeah, don't hold back on us, keep 'em coming!
I dig this and really hope you do something further with it (though it's also beautiful just the way it is)!
Lots of great stuff on this album. Enjoyed listening to all of it. This was my favorite. Lots of fun and glitchy stuff here.
So question for you.. how did you record the piano for this album? And I realized later that you hadn't specifically asked what I was using on one of my piano songs.. so to answer your earlier question: It was Reason+Record for that song, with "built-in" sounds as well some refills (notably the Reason Pianos that I mentioned).
Dig this one! The polyrhythms (if that's the term) really give me the sense of rain falling, too.
Lovely! To answer your question... currently I'm using the Reason pianos refill. I've also used NI's Akoustik, Ableton Live Suite's grand piano, and an Alesis QS7 in reverse chronological order. :)
Another great one!
Glad you got refueled cause this is freaking awesome! I like the lead, but I'd definitely have a slower fade out at the end. It left me wanting MORE.
Dig the western feel of this one. Gonna have to see the movie again to get the full effect!
I like both versions, but this is definitely my fave.
Another nice one! Always love the ambience you create in these pieces.