Category: Songs for Beginners

  • No East or West (classic-rock uke take)

    Add to my vocal take and Cecil’s sepulchral midi piano take (the “15-foot Christian” one) this reasonably crisp run-through of the melody on ukulele, processed to sound like electric guitar. Note the hymn originally had a right-boring Anglican melody called St. Peter and this version is set to an African-American spiritual, hence its lovely pentatonic…

  • Effervescing Elephant (take 7)

    By Jove, I do believe I’m getting a real feel for this song, Effervescing Elephant, by Syd Barret, played and sung by me, xian. Needs keybs… Cecil? Help me dethickenize the mix! (Update: Compare with the much more straight-ahead if rushed and frightened sounding take six of this same tune. Need general category.)

  • Double-filtered uke

    Adding my secret special Jerry-shimmeree effect and that basic little uke feel track gets positively cosmic, man!

  • 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…