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Drifting

3:59

The New Year Song (Trumpet version)

4:26

Mirror-Mirror

Sit back, relax and enjoy the vibe… without paying too much attention to some of the notes or beats.
Yeah, another demo, but I like it. And at least my bad voice isn't in it.
When I start a new project, I always make a working title. I change it about 95% of the time. This time I only slightly changed it, going from “Mirror” to “Mirror-Mirror”. Sort of fitting, no?
I started with drums, and, well, it was an experiment. I used a mix of Poly-800, Rev 2 and Poly-D for most of this (“techno” section was all Poly-D for the bass and solo (background synth leads are all Rev 2)). There is a tambourine part buried in there and, of course, the trumpet solo. I wrote out the trumpet solo as opposed to the improvised synth solo.
I hope you enjoyed!

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4:59

Trent P. McDonald - Let's All Join In

มุมมอง 40914 วันที่ผ่านมา

Resa thought she saw Lennon’s face from a trolley but didn’t’ find it again until recently. When talking about it, some said we need Lennon’s vision today more than ever and others said there should be a song about seeing Lennon’s face from a trolley… So here it is, both ideas in one. Yes, I drew my own picture instead of using the real street art - how could I without asking the artist? And, o...

3:59

Drifting

มุมมอง 73หลายเดือนก่อน

A fresh new song... I wrote the music for this almost a month ago and recorded the drums three weeks ago (a day before I started drum lessons…) but then got caught up doing other things, like astrophotography. Anyway, after a quick job of recoding the instruments and the wordless background vocals yesterday evening, I improvised some words and melody into the mic. I started with the minor secti...

3:42

Losing North Dakota

มุมมอง 912 หลายเดือนก่อน

Sorry if you are from the great state of North Dakota, but this song isn’t about you… It was inspired by North Dakota being missing from a brand new child’s puzzle of the US. Yep, there are many puzzle references in the song. But the whole "North Dakota" think is actually used as a metaphor here. Now, what is the meta for, you might ask? I will leave it up to you to decipher or decrypt any mean...

1:08

The Nickelodeon

มุมมอง 664 หลายเดือนก่อน

I picked up a hardware sequencer in 1989 (I think). For the next few years, I stayed up most nights creating little ditties. I was using just one midi channel at the time, so it would all be one part, i.e., a synth harpsichord. I changed sounds on the mixer as I did live recordings straight from synth to tape. Yes, cassette tape. I must have made hundreds of these little songs, but only a handf...

3:57

Celebrate Life

มุมมอง 1304 หลายเดือนก่อน

A funk inspired ditty written so I can play the trumpet - the working title was “Trumpet Funk” and the words were written after most of the instruments (except the trumpet leads) were recorded. Oh, the words - yes corny, but I think the extreme positivity fits the music. Hey, did you notice that there are drums here? OK, don’t expect Bill Bruford since I have been playing drums for almost exact...

4:26

The New Year Song (Trumpet version)

มุมมอง 1676 หลายเดือนก่อน

I wrote the New Years Song at the start of 2023. It was supposed to have lyrics, but I didn't like the way they were going so decided to make a quick instrumental version. OK, now a year later I have swapped out the synth lead part with a trumpet. I did a couple of other small tweaks, but having the melody being a true trumpet is the big one. OK, a few small mistakes with the trumpet part, but ...

Silver Bells Played on the Radio (Take 3)

3:15

Silver Bells Played on the Radio (Take 3)

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For the third take I put down a trumpet track. After over a decade away, I picked up the trumpet a couple of days ago and really liked what it added to this song, enough that I am putting up a new version only a week after the last version... From Take 2: This is the same thing I posted a year ago, but tweaked a little. The big change is that I rerecorded the vocals, concentrating on being in t...

Silver Bells Plays on the Radio (Take 2)

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Silver Bells Plays on the Radio (Take 2)

มุมมอง 1247 หลายเดือนก่อน

(A new version was just added: th-cam.com/video/rAz3BiB1LuA/w-d-xo.html) This is the same thing I posted a year ago, but tweaked a little. The big change is that I rerecorded the vocals, concentrating on being in tune. I did one other background track that is almost inaudible, but helps (it is during the last third). And there is very slight tweaking of the mixdown. Not much, but the new vocals...

5:59

When Now is All We Have

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Here is my latest. This is a little wordy. In fact, I wrote the lyrics a couple of months ago, while most of the songs I post start with music and I write lyrics to match. The story here is total fiction, but perhaps the idea isn’t. Perhaps in a different universe these two got together. Anyway, there are a lot of words in the song, so no need for a lot of words here.

3:45

The Small Can Change the World

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Kind of a throwback to the early 1970s… I have been wanting to do a song about Frodo in the Lord of the Rings and how the smallest sometimes have the largest impact. Here it is. My problem is that the music was written before I knew what the song would be about and I found out that the rhythm I put in for the verses was odd. It wasn’t easy squeezing the words in… This started by me playing with...

6:14

Star Born Children

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OK, I’ll admit I spent much more time on the animation for this video than the music, but… Quick overview in case the meaning isn’t clear: Each of us are just a speck on this Earth, which is just a speck in the solar system, which… on and on - the Universe is huge and we are a product of the process. And yet, we are all special - there is not another you, her, him or me in this enormous Univers...

5:13

You're Late October

มุมมอง 1808 หลายเดือนก่อน

A little Halloween ditty…. I had been messing around with a classic rock song and took part of it, changed it completely, and then used that new thing as the basis for this song - extra points if you can guess the classic song I was playing with. A lot of sounds here are a combo of Prophet Rev 2 and Pro-800. The bass adds in some Poly D and the Poly D was used for all of the electronic percussi...

3:14

Pro-800 First Impressions

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About three weeks ago I picked up a Behringer Pro-800. I immediately did the video “Bright Love” (link at bottom) using mostly Pro-800 sounds, but others mixed in as well. Then I was out of town for almost two weeks… I finally got back, started playing the instrument again, and so, after four days of playing, here is a quick, down and dirty “First Impressions” using sounds I created. (Yes, some...

3:20

Bright Love

มุมมอง 3219 หลายเดือนก่อน

I had just created a sound that I liked but knew I wasn’t going to save it so I decided to just play and record a quick jam with it. That jam, which is the bass/chord combo this starts with and that runs through out, became a song. I turned on the vocoder, started singing random words, and “Bright Love” stuck. So I had to write the song called “Bright Love”. For some reason a spoken word part s...