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.
If you followed me back in August, you might remember how I spent several days porting this song over to Logic.
Well, now that I'm using Reason+Record, I basically threw out all of that hard work and started over.
I haven't yet had the time…
LE SIGH. This is an incredible song. Absolutely beautiful. I don't think I ever heard this with a vocal before? Would love to hear more songs like this from you - and also to read the lyrics. "Dancing with the sky"?...I might have to steal that!
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…
Of all the days I had to get up super early, it happened to fall on the first day of spring. Also known as (fingers crossed) the worst day of spring.
I spent part of the early morning digging my car out from underneath the ice and snow. Later…
Silly song. Silly lyrics.
One live take. I recorded the piano and vocals simultaneously, though if you want to get geeky about it, the piano was via MIDI. However, if you listen closely you might be able to hear me hitting the keys in the background…
This song is what happens when you decide to bandage together multiple takes that were done without a click track.
To explain the following, first I should explain this. I see the piece as being 3 different parts: the intro that hints at the…
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…
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…
Of all the days I had to get up super early, it happened to fall on the first day of spring. Also known as (fingers crossed) the worst day of spring.
I spent part of the early morning digging my car out from underneath the ice and snow. Later…
Today sucked.
I had been working on a longer post to explain it. But I'll basically just sum it up as follows [*ed. note:* consider that this was the *shorter* version. Haha]:
* I live in a part of town where noisy neighbors are a problem…
yelyah - "solo piano 20100319" (live improvisation)
I have mixed feelings on releasing the song this way.
If you heard my 24 hour album ([insert "poor you" here]), 17.1 of the total 26.2 minutes was completely live/improv'd. I'll admit that…
I improvise every time I find myself up near a piano. If I'm in the same room as one, I gravitate towards it until I'm close enough to touch it. The last time I improv'ed, my husband said, 'Oh, play that again!' :-/
yelyah - "solo piano 20100319" (live improvisation)
I have mixed feelings on releasing the song this way.
If you heard my 24 hour album ([insert "poor you" here]), 17.1 of the total 26.2 minutes was completely live/improv'd. I'll admit that…
yelyah - "solo piano 20100319" (live improvisation)
I have mixed feelings on releasing the song this way.
If you heard my 24 hour album ([insert "poor you" here]), 17.1 of the total 26.2 minutes was completely live/improv'd. I'll admit that…
Another live improv.
Listen as I start out with a semi-interesting left hand pattern that I totally can’t maintain independently and end up resorting to patterns I already know.
Oh, I had such big plans for this song. Acoustic guitar, tin whistle, maybe go and drag the bagpipes out of storage (cough, or as the case really would be: fire up Logic, so I can use an external plugin).
I went to storm spotters training instead…
Today sucked.
I had been working on a longer post to explain it. But I'll basically just sum it up as follows [*ed. note:* consider that this was the *shorter* version. Haha]:
* I live in a part of town where noisy neighbors are a problem…
My first attempt at doing a songfight (songfight.org).
Though I've known what the title was for a week+, I finally decided to write the thing the night before it was due.
PROCRASTINATORS REPRESENT!
Oh, I had such big plans for this song. Acoustic guitar, tin whistle, maybe go and drag the bagpipes out of storage (cough, or as the case really would be: fire up Logic, so I can use an external plugin).
I went to storm spotters training instead…
Oh, I had such big plans for this song. Acoustic guitar, tin whistle, maybe go and drag the bagpipes out of storage (cough, or as the case really would be: fire up Logic, so I can use an external plugin).
I went to storm spotters training instead…
My first attempt at doing a songfight (songfight.org).
Though I've known what the title was for a week+, I finally decided to write the thing the night before it was due.
PROCRASTINATORS REPRESENT!
Sounds like you had a good time writing and performing this. Maybe I'll check out songfight.org sometime, but I'll most likely keep putting it off indefinitely. :)
I think I dislike this song, but it's been sitting in my bounce folder far too long and something about it still makes me play it from time to time. Maybe you will like it more than I do. the simple lyric is not meant to be interpreted literally…
A moody solo acoustic thing that I came up with playing in a long forgotten tuning. Just got a new Zoom H4N, so this was recorded in my shop sitting at my reedmaking bench may 12 2009
This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
What happened after too much time on youtube watching live vids of "voodoo chile" Noisy obnoxious and very cathartic for me! Live to 2tracks with the Jamman
After yesterdays experiment with noise gates and vocal transformers I thought I'd have another go using Rytme as the source material.
A single Rytme track with multiple playheads is playing into a Logic channel containing Kore playing the Absynth…
Rough sketch of a proposed dreamy 12 string piece that I couldn't pull off on the 12 string so did this quick electric version with vocal pads. Not sure of the recording quality- sounds OK in my cans and kinda crappy on my monitors. Recorded march…
Really liked the mood of this piece!
Recording quality sounded fine to me on my consumer-level speakers. If you do another version, I'd like to hear it.
the first multi track piece that I actually finished "in the box" in Cubase. An ambient kinda thing that grew out of playing around with the Line 6 DL4. Not sure I like the bow parts, but I may re do it later
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Lovely smacks of Aimee Mann here! Great song! I hope you won.
LE SIGH. This is an incredible song. Absolutely beautiful. I don't think I ever heard this with a vocal before? Would love to hear more songs like this from you - and also to read the lyrics. "Dancing with the sky"?...I might have to steal that!
Speed demon.......
Jean Michel Jarre, eat your heart out.
Freakin' fantastically fanciful. Fabulously flakey. Fav'ed :D
:) Flows pretty good for plastic surgery.
Beautiful piece!
This is beautiful piano!
Nice one! Like it!
I really like this.
I improvise every time I find myself up near a piano. If I'm in the same room as one, I gravitate towards it until I'm close enough to touch it. The last time I improv'ed, my husband said, 'Oh, play that again!' :-/
Sweet!
Well done also.
Very nice to wake up to.
LOL. funny
Today may have sucked but your musical output was just fine.
HAHA! Great fun!!
We Irish ignore anything that we can't drink or punch. :D
Lol Happy belated Paddy's Day Sláinte
Sounds like you had a good time writing and performing this. Maybe I'll check out songfight.org sometime, but I'll most likely keep putting it off indefinitely. :)
Comments made by yelyah
nice one!
simply beautiful
wonderful
such a lovely vibe on this one. And thanks for all of the feedback, I really appreciate it!
love the sounds on this one
So much good stuff to choose from here. I think this one is my favorite.
Really love the ethereal mood you set with the background effects/vocals. Haunting.
love the crunchy guitar and the funky beat
Laid back feel and interesting sound design elements.
Really liked the mood of this piece! Recording quality sounded fine to me on my consumer-level speakers. If you do another version, I'd like to hear it.
I really dig the vibe on this one and like the effects you chose for the guitars.