Posts Tagged Music
Flood of new music!
I’d like to offer you three new songs: “Sleep,” “Impression, Part II“, and “Happier With You.” These make up more of the “Sleep” release. Sleep, from April 2010, is a song I put together as a bit of a scherzo – “hmm, let’s see what I can do with these chord shapes” – and I [...]
On the Song That Is Too Fast To Play-eth
Okay, this thing is going to be a frickin’ barn-burner. As in, barns literally burning down. (It’s an anti-barn protest song.) Well… maybe. But man, oh man – just finished laying down the electric guitar tracks, and by the end of them – both of them – I’m doing my whole in-the-moment thing, where I [...]
Ow.
I write this with numb fingers, because they’re bleeding for the first time from playing guitar in freakin’ years. I usually slow songs down a little to record them, because in my head they’re too fast anyway, but today: nope! Full speed ahead! And I forgot that on bass, the song I was recording is [...]
New Rush songs!
Rush has two new singles available through iTunes and Amazon: Caravan and BU2B. They’re really good – they’ve gotten a little more comfortable with the producer they worked with for their previous album, and they’re actually a little more adventurous now. I have a feeling that Nick Raskulinecz – the producer – was pushing them [...]
Two new songs: Impression and Aurora!
New music at last! What’s even better, these pieces are way, way better than the others in the current release cycle, to the point where they’re likely to make the other pieces just go away. The first is “Aurora,” an instrumental. It was interesting to record; this is actually the third version recorded. The first [...]
Music: Dream
New music online! Dream is a new piece, the first one I’ve really felt good about since I finished the “Time and Distance” CD. The new collection’s title: “Sleep.” (Go figure.) This one’s interesting to me – it actually started with six or seven rhythm guitar tracks, all sort of syncopated together for a “wave” [...]
In search of the perfect expression
Posted by dreamreal in Art, Psychology on 24 March, 2010
One of my … flaws, I guess, is that I consider myself an artist, which causes conflict because I don’t think in ways that lend themselves to expression. I’ll never stop trying, though.
This Ain’t Jazz
“This Ain’t Jazz” is a piece I put together partly because I really wanted to play, like, real drums. See, here’s the thing: I started on drums, back in 1980 or so, in the Wildwood Middle School Guitar Group, which basically played a set of hits, based on the skills of the students at the [...]
Recording a Djembe
A friend from work rather graciously allowed me to borrow a djembe, and I’m having trouble figuring out how to record it. A djembe is incredibly flexible; it can do high notes like a conga, and it can boom like a tympani. The technique you use to play it is very powerful; you use your [...]
Doppler Video, except a real one this time
I published a new video of Doppler this morning. I know it seems like I’m focusing on Doppler almost exclusively lately, but I’m not: it’s just a short piece that I know well enough to be comfortable about playing with it. (The 7/4 bridge was actually put in for the video, and it turns out [...]