monkey gets in the way
‘monkey gets in the way’
“day and night, I wanna do right but the monkey gets in the way”…
jingle bells
I’ve been playing this on solo guitar, adding to my Christmas repertoire a little this year. I downloaded a nice drum track from wikiloops.com where you can get some really great (and free) tracks to experiment with.
In Logic Pro the guitar track went down over the drums and then the bass (which Art Baguer said is “stylistically on point” and so I am inordinately proud of that for sure)!
I should have the changes up here shortly as a pdf download for any folks who are interested. Enjoy!
All that love for you!
It struck me how much his in-laws love him- really adore my kid! Typically when I’m composing I keep a picture of something in my head to focus on while I’m inventing and In this case I was thinking about his wife’s family, how lovely they are to him and to Deb and me as well. I worked this up to a built-in drum track in logic pro and the idea is to substitute a track that my son makes in Beats, and then sort of present this to his in-laws as a token of our appreciation for them. That’s the idea anyway.
silent night
“Silent Night” (German: “Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht”) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. The song was first recorded in 1905 and has remained a popular success, appearing in films and multiple successful recordings, as well as being quoted in other musical compositions. You can download the pdf notation and tab sheet here
I think Robin Williams saw it coming
I think Robin Williams saw it coming
I think Robin Williams saw it coming
He was as sensitive a soul as you could find
A gentle true spirit with a razor sharp mind
A genuine human exclamation point
And one of a kind
I think Robin Williams saw it coming
And it must have made him awful sad to see
The day beyond the day beyond the day of his demise
And that he wouldn’t be here
To brighten peoples eyes
I think Robin williams saw it coming
All the anger and the stupid, stupid shit
And it rose within his mind
And it broke his fuckin heart
It broke his fuckin heart.
Play more melodically with this simple technique
Play more melodically with this simple technique!
The sound you create with your instrument is the vehicle that the idea- that is, the music- uses to communicate itself. When you listen to an instrument playing a melody, can you hear the “words” that are being sung? We can begin to think about music as if it was language (which it is) and so consider it “syllabically”
Think about a common word… how about “kitchen”? If you were going to describe the sound of that word, you might say it has two syllables – a short, percussive one: “kit” and a longer one that starts off sharp – “ch” – and sort of trails off the “n” sound till it’s done… “chennnn”. Also when you say the word “kitchen” is the first syllable higher or lower than the second one? Higher, right? So how might you represent those two ideas on your guitar? How about playing a short, sharp note and then a slightly lower one that kind of trails off? Does that sound like the two syllables in “kitchen”?
This kind of thinking about music in a different way needs to be practiced for sure, but look: the tiniest change in the way you think about something can have profound effects in the way you perceive it. Thinking about musica “syllabically” might be the change that drives […]