Category: Songs for Beginners
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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.)
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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…
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Postcartesian Metaphysical Home[sic] Blues
Not knowing the real words to the Wesley-esque hymn transmitted to me through John Fahey’s Skip James-loving hands, I’ve made up some postcartesian lyrics of my own. Here’s a reference vocal take of all the verses.
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No Outside
Cecil found the chords underlying my vocal, and has developed them in a new direction. I am having trouble matching his time (swing, swing) but it’s fun trying on this take of No Outside.
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Or Outside
Cecil put his moneymaker where his If Jesus were an a capella song about himself, I’d like to think this is the song he’d be is.
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Fire on the Mountain (Churchbells Softly Chime mix, take 2)
What I really want to know is this: Is this Churchbells Softly Chime remix (about 7 megs as MP3 – it was closer to 50 megs as an AIF) an improvement over the previous take or not?
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In X
Here’s a vocal in search of some instrumental accompaniment in the obligatory MP3 as well as the (possibly more Cakewalk friendly?) AIFF format.
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Fire on the Mountain (getting there)
Accidentally wiped some vocals, but the mix is getting better (I think).
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Fire on the Mountain (distorted, still incomplete)
When in doubt, hide time and rhythm errors with special effects!
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Fire on the Mountain (a work in progress)
Fire on the Mountain, some basic tracks. How do I speed up my slow pickin’ in GarageBand?
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Effervescing Elephant (take 5)
The insider outsider take (take 4 was the outsider insider take)
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Effervescing Elephant (take 4)
Now, with microphone and multitrack…
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Remix Nightmare (Land of Toil and Bluff bounce in D, edit)
Clipped off the bass loops at the end and started the vocal a little more into the track.
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Remix Nightmare (Land of Toil and Bluff bounce in D, Unedited take)
Remix Nightmare (Land of Toil and Bluff bounce mix in D)
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The Yeah Yeah Song
I wrote a pretty simple song on my ukulele today. I still can’t play for shit, but tapping into the magic of chord patterns is just too fun. It goes (basically) G C G C7 D Em A C and back to G again. I was so thrilled that I called up Cecil Vortex and…
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Effervescing Elephant (take 3)
in which I remember the chords a bit better but still to no avail
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Effervescing Elephant (take 2)
In which I try to remember to keep strumming
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Effervescing Elephant (take 1)
one day i will be able to play this
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Uncle John's Band (take 2)
choppy and sad
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Uncle John's Band (take 1)
if gumption was horses, this beggar would ride