i wrote a song!

this is basically only the second thing
i've ever 'composed' here is the 1st take:



here is me playing with my slide again:
(caveat: i am very bad with ze slide!)





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slide

my dear friend nick sent me a guitar slide
in the mail. i've never played with a slide
before, but today i decided to give it a
shot. i used it with the classical acoustic
guitar that i play, which is probably not
how you're supposed to use a slide. but it
was fun! i liked two things about it a lot:
1) it made the guitar more of a continuous
instrument, versus the normal discrete fretted
version of the guitar. 2) it made the guitar
more percussive; since i couldn't really do
much with my left hand, i started strumming
with my right hand, which i almost never do
any more.

i'll give one caveat -- it gets a little
crazy at the end. i decided not to edit it
out though, because i think it's interesting
that all those sounds were just being made
with an acoustic guitar and a slide! i
thought it was lots of fun. thanks nick!



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tuesday night

here's one that is potentially not finished -- basically
all i would like to add is a low E drone of some sort...
my plan for tonight was to play around with drum samples;
so i did that and then added some weird guitar stuff and
messed with it... general beauregard marches on!



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siddharthmusic

tonight i played music with siddharth;
he played exotic instruments, and i played
guitar. i'll post the name when i get the
spelling.

siddharth loop 1



siddharth loop 2 - his primary musical
interests are in indian music and irish
music.



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6 string chords

i started strumming a pattern today,
trying to use as big of chords as
possible, because i think my hand is
maybe strong enough to play big chords
on the acoustic guitar and it's a thing
i would like to be able to do... so, i
found a nice and cheesy chord pattern and
played it; then decided to record it to
throw up a post. then i recorded a track of
guitar solo over it, then did some typical
audio editing and to make it sound weird but
hopefully interesting! so if you haven't
figured out my 'labels' yet, gb stands for
general beauregard which means heavily edited,
gee means guitar and pee means piano. this one
is gb and gee!



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trying things out

here is a pretty minimalist effort. i played
some acoustic guitar, sped it up and messed
with it a bit. then i looped a couple of spots,
and added drums to those spots, and gave a
melody of sorts on top of one of those sections.
i was mostly just trying some things out!



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sunday morning

here's a little 4 chord pattern, with a melody and all!
the chords are: E7alt G13 F#m6 Bmaj7#5

(this pattern is just a 1-6-2-5 with some substitutions)



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angels

it is what it is!



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berkeley posts iii

this is just me having fun with audacity etc.



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berkeley posts ii

i've been playing around with "blue in green"

here is a new arrangement of it:



here is how i would normally play it:



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berkeley posts

here is a I-IV-iii-VI-ii-V-I!



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