for race

this one ought to be (and is!) dedicated race pendleton,
who essentially 'wrote it' for me in that he asked me a
question about playing 2 chords in progression, giving me
the chord voicings etc. and these 2 chords in progression,
in the same voicings, is what i'm playing here,
and i've titled it for race (etude 1) because it's for race
(for reasons already mentioned) but it's also going to be
the 1st of a series (hopefully) where i explore this progression
(with these voicings) a bit more (since i really like it)

thanks race!





enjoy!

more experimenting

this one is kind of fun. i came up with a little chord
pattern that i liked a while ago, so i made a tune out
of it by doing an AABA format (writing a little bridge
for the B part and using the original pattern for the A).
i 'played' (i.e. 'musically typed') on garage band a
bass-line that would fit over the progression, and then
'played' (musically typed) drums over that. then i recorded
myself comping (playing chords) over the whole thing. then
i played the garage band output and recorded what my speakers
were putting out into audacity (because garage band outputs in
m4a and i don't have an m4a-->mp3 converter). i did a little
extra thing (a tip of the hat to NARDS for this move) where i
took the original drum beat alone and sped it up 2x and laid it
over the track to give it a little extra something to the drum
beat. then i recorded a guitar solo over the whole thing...
since it was longer than i wanted, i sped the whole thing up a bit
and faded everything out. and here's the output! (i may or may not
put this track in this format on an album -- i.e. i may just go
ahead and throw it on there, or i may do further editing and/or
record a new soloing, or i may just pitch the whole thing.)



enjoy!

happy new year!

hi all. well over the break i finished and 'released'
'acoustic guitar music' which is available for free
download here: acoustic guitar music

anyway, please give it a download (you have to download
one by one which is annoying, so if you actually want
the album but that format of downloading bugs you just
email me or post a comment here and i will send you a
.zip file through sendspace or something) and/or a listen!
hopefully i'll be posting a lot this semester since
i have scheduled myself plenty of music time!

here is my first attempt of the new year; mostly this
is just an experiment trying to use new formats to make
tracks, so the structure is pretty basic. i called it
summer during winter because the weather in austin is
really really great right now! ok here it goes:




enjoy!