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A few weeks back, I bought an acoustic-electric guitar. I want to go back to the songs where I faked guitar parts and replace them with real ones.
I posted this cover of The System's "
Don't Disturb This Groove" a long time ago. This new version changes the strumming style enough to necessitate the addition of a bass part.
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at 6:08 AM on October 7, 2011
For this month's challenge, I offer a song about hating being loved.
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at 9:21 PM on June 28, 2011
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I've been acquiring a number of sample libraries in the past year, and this track makes use of some of them. It has Indonesian gamelan, Japanese taiko, Indian tabla and orchestral strings.
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at 8:49 AM on June 5, 2011
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Just in time for Election Day, an anthem for the politically conservative.
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at 11:06 PM on November 1, 2010
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Previously. This mix replaces some of the sampled guitar parts with real guitars, and the piano is played live. Once again I'm using Guitar Rig 3 LE for post-processing. The drones are still Reason samples. The drums were replaced with Battery 4. Same vocal track.
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at 4:38 PM on September 12, 2010
I recently bought a new computer, which allows me to use Guitar Rig 3 LE that came bundled with Cakewalk SONAR without taxing my CPU. So I re-recorded one of my songs with actual guitars.
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at 9:18 PM on September 2, 2010
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So that you're not left hanging after the conclusion of the
third movement, here's the finale of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, programmed in SONAR with the Miroslav Philharmonk library.
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at 4:36 AM on July 20, 2010
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A few weeks ago I bought Miroslav Philharmonik, an orchestral sample library, and to test it out, I programmed the third and fourth movements of the Beethoven Fifth in SONAR. Here's the third movement. I'll post the fourth tomorrow.
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at 8:49 PM on July 18, 2010
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Here's a precocious ditty dating back to the late '80s. I must have been 16 or 17 when I wrote it. I was under the influence of Sting and Swing Out Sister at the time, and I was also starting to learn about classical music.
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at 7:33 PM on June 21, 2010
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I sang in the college choir, and one semester, we performed this selection from Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. One day, I pictured a tremolo guitar replacing the orchestra.
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at 1:34 PM on May 30, 2010
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umbú and I were born pretty close to each other, since this song was also #1 on the week I was born. For some reason, I pictured my version performed by some weird mix of Geinoh Yamashirogumi and Tokyo Jihen.
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at 10:57 AM on May 23, 2010
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My covers of
Linda Ronstadt and
Gabby Pahinui bookend this third generation cover of "Hello Stranger". (I used the Elliman cover as reference.)
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at 11:18 AM on May 19, 2010
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Moonlight Lady by Gabby Pahinui is the only Hawaiian music song I like. I covered it in the style of a shoegazer band.
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at 7:28 PM on May 15, 2010
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I always wanted to hear
this Linda Ronstadt song covered by Garbage.
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at 9:39 PM on March 5, 2010
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I wanted to write a song with no minor chords, which would be easy to do if I stuck to I-IV-V. I didn't really stick to I-IV-V.
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at 4:30 AM on January 17, 2010
Does covering the ending theme of a
Japanese horror movie count as a scary song for this month's challenge? Well, I'm posting it anyway. The only thing scary is thinking I can singing like Van Tomiko.
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at 5:00 PM on October 19, 2009
I don't like the movie
The Piano, but I do like Michael Nyman's soundtrack. I usually program all my music with a sequencer, so this is my first attempt to capture myself live.
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at 8:49 PM on July 24, 2009
Programmed, recorded and edited today. This song appears on Robin Holcomb's self-titled album from 1990. It's got some odd key changes and a lot of clashing notes.
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at 9:42 PM on July 2, 2009
I posted the second movement of Barber's quartet
previously. Here's the first movement.
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at 7:08 AM on June 20, 2009
Another personal homework assignment to prepare for writing a string quartet -- this time, it's Samuel Barber's String Quartet, Op. 11. The second movement was extracted to become Barber's one-hit wonder, the Adagio for Strings.
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at 4:57 AM on June 18, 2009
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I wanted to experiment with multitracked vocals, so I turned "The Fool" from
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea into a choral work. I probably could have done more with rhythm and vocal percussive effects, but I did this is as a practice run for another song, which also included four-part harmonies.
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at 3:33 PM on June 14, 2009
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I've been in a string quartet frame of mind for the last few weeks. The abrupt end is intentional. Not sure why.
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at 12:23 PM on June 13, 2009
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As a personal homework assignment to prepare for writing a string quartet, I've been programming scores of various 20th Century string quartets into Cakewalk SONAR. Here's a recording of Fratres by Arvo Pärt.
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at 9:38 AM on May 29, 2009
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I wanted to hear a post-rock band cover Roberta Flack.
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at 9:21 PM on May 22, 2009
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I
posted this track before, but that mix is a bit outdated. So I'm offering it up again for the first song challenge.
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at 9:04 PM on May 20, 2009
I tried to picture Alice in Chains covering Janet Jackson, but it sounds more like T-Rex by way of Power Station.
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at 9:03 PM on May 14, 2009
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Yes, I already
contributed something to the two-chord challenge, but that doesn't mean it's the only song I've done with only two chords. This track uses Fm and G.
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at 6:32 PM on April 17, 2009
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Finally -- a MeFiMusic Challenge I can do! Or rather have done. I actually
posted this song before, but I've since gone back and cleaned up the EQ and gated some of the noise from the vocal. The two chords used are D and E.
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at 11:44 AM on April 8, 2009
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I'm neither a jazz writer nor a jazz singer, but that didn't stop me from trying. It's part of an
album I'm gradually releasing online.
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at 1:59 PM on March 24, 2009
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Perhaps a cover but more a self-made karaoke of Cocco's "Hoshi ni Negai wo".
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at 5:12 PM on February 24, 2009
The
first time I posted this song, I put barely any effects processing at all -- just limiting to make it audible. Now I've gone back and put in EQ, reverb, gating and some compression. Same song, different mixing. Compare and contrast.
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at 3:17 PM on December 21, 2008
A cover of The System's "
Don't Disturb This Groove". I tried to picture how
Samamidon would have done it.
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at 2:03 PM on November 29, 2008
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I was flipping through an old binder of songs I wrote in high school and came across this instrumental. I saw some potential there and decided to record it. Twenty years ago, it was supposed to be a fusion thing, along the lines of
Hiroshima. I opted for something a bit harder instead.
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at 9:21 AM on November 20, 2008
Strings, drums, two chords and lyrics vaguely inspired by the '80s TV show "The Equalizer". Also, big rip-off of Craig Armstrong.
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at 6:17 PM on November 2, 2008
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Another song done in a
jazz-pop style, this one inspired a little bit more by
ACO than Basia. The ending chord is meant to segue into "
Imprint".
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at 8:49 PM on October 8, 2008
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I took a piano piece I wrote two years ago for National Solo Album Month and arranged it for string quartet. Then I used the Orkester Library in Reason to record it. I was heavily under the influence of Michael Nyman at the time, although this one feels much more like Philip Glass.
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at 8:20 PM on September 21, 2008
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The first version of this song was written back in the late '80s and was some sort of power ballad. Twenty years later, I took the main chord progression and turned it into an ultra-commercial '90s alt-pop song instead.
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at 12:25 PM on September 2, 2008
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I wrote this song around 1992 or 1993, wanting it to be a guitar song even though I hadn't really picked up the instrument. I re-recorded it recently, using a lot of the original arrangement from my cassette demo, and it's not working for me. So I'd like some feedback.
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at 7:15 PM on August 20, 2008
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Another
cover of a Japanese band, this time from
SUPERCAR. (
Previously.) This arrangement mimics the version on the album
Futurama.
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at 9:08 PM on August 13, 2008
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A late-night experiment in three-part harmony, which isn't a good idea since I'm not much of a singer, if the warbly low notes are any indication. It's an even worse idea when it's a
cover of a song performed by
Hajime Chitose, who really can sing.
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at 7:24 AM on August 11, 2008
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I pretty much stole the first two chords and arrangement of this song from a Japanese indie band called
Dr.StrangeLove. To mitigate that theft, I did the chorus in the style of
BBMak.
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at 12:49 PM on August 8, 2008
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I
threatened to do so, and I have -- a song I wrote when I was around 15 or 16 years old, in the '80s jazz-pop vein of Basia, Sade and Hiroshima. Although I think it's actually more inspired by Tears for Fears.
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at 8:15 AM on August 5, 2008
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The actual title of this song is 「聞いてはいけない、言ってはいけない」, which is pronounced "Kiite wa Ikenai, Itte wa Ikenai". I probably ought to be more out than I am, but I like seeing the reaction of people who don't suspect when I do come out. (Doesn't work on other gay men, though.)
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at 1:55 PM on July 31, 2008
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I think I was chanelling Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" when I wrote the music. I know I was under the influence of Brian Greene's
The Elegant Universe when I wrote the lyrics.
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at 8:00 PM on June 19, 2008
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Well, I'm taking the plunge and
releasing a CD. Short-run, nothing too fancy. I already posted the
fourth track of this EP,
enigmatics, a long time ago, so here's the second track. A Metafilter Music exclusive!
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at 10:34 PM on May 21, 2008
A dialogue between an unhinged robot and a dismissive human.
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at 10:31 PM on April 3, 2008
Here's the MIDI playback of a piano piece I wrote for
NaSoAlMo back in 2006. I felt cheeky and riffed on Sigur Rós' "Flugufrelsarinn" for the chorus. An actual quote appears toward the end.
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at 8:47 PM on March 31, 2008
The
first time I presented this piece, I had not yet explored the Orkester library in Reason. After I found some very convincing solo strings, I re-recorded the first movement of this string quartet.
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at 8:48 AM on March 29, 2008
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As with "
Untold Demons", this song dates back to the late '80s and was extensively reworked (read: rewritten) in 2006. Duran Duran was a big influence on me back then, so for the update, I tried to imagine a Duran Duran song without Nick Rhodes.
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at 10:28 PM on March 10, 2008
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This first time I
presented this song, I made a drastic edit to the melody that turned out to be unsuccessful. Also, my singing sucked.
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at 8:05 PM on March 6, 2008
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