Category: Songs for Beginners

  • Fire on the Mountain, take 2, basic uke feel track

    There’s a lot you can do with a simple rhythm and some time. Here’s just a basic feel track on the ukulele. Tomorrow I’ll post a processed version of it, but the plain track is out there for anyone who wants to mess with it or loop it back in any way, etc.: Fire on…

  • Kidney Shaped Pool

    Been real busy writing and little time for recording lately but I did manage to capture myself singing along to Cake’s “Meanwhile Rick James” (without really knowing the words), so I mixed it up together with some string effects on some ridiculous single-note keyboard-mousing, yielding this whimsy, Kidney Shaped Pool (about 2 meg).

  • Goodnight, Irene (raw mix)

    Sometimes I live in the country Soometimes I live in the town Sometimes I live inside a bass amp And run Cecil’s organ through a classic rock guitar filter for that sludgy hard rawk sound. Laramie gave me the chord changes. I wrote ’em for Cecil. He played ’em on his electric pianer thing and…

  • Let's get Meta-phiz-sick-ill

    metaphizickillin’ great tase less filling when i’m chill’n dissing bob dylan* while my radiator’s illin’ *see remix nightmare (land of toil and bluff mix), see also Metaphysical home[sic] Blooz Nos. 12 and 35 if only because of the stoopit name. And plus that’s what this post is about to, almost forgot.

  • Effervescing Elephant (Take 6)

    Another reference track, a uke-and-voice take of EE. (Separate rhythm and vocal tracks available for anyone who wants to mess with them.)

  • The Yeah Yeah Song (Take 3)

    I’m starting to work out a bridge and even some finger-picking ideas for the verses of this song. I’m refining the lyrics and haev some thoughts for lyrics for the bridge as well. This take starts off as a straight rhythm-uke reading of the first verse and a clumsy finger-picked take of the second, before…