a post

i've been playing a lot but not
posting; i may try to compile
some of the recent stuff i've
recorded and post some stuff.
here's a start:



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tuesday...

no holiday music yet, but here's something
i worked on today...



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happy holidays!

happy holidays!



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big post

two tracks from lapwing trio:





a track from samuel ham called s appy dan:



a solo guitar track (body & soul; for some
reason i'm obsessed with this tune at the
moment)



and finally a video, chronicling
laundry room experiences:



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vid

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dummy

in pursuit of the stupidest music possible



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strings

let's call this one
a work in progress...



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king of cheese

more attempts at mixing the
real and midi worlds...



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many guitars

first guitar + audio editing effort in a while

i've been trying to write something; this track
is based off of looping what i have of the chord
progression so far



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composition/bass solo

one last post for october...



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mixing

mixing the real and midi worlds:




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more

here's a few... they turned
out a bit strange but i kind
of like them anyway:





here's some super cheese;
drums provided by my dear
friend samuel ham:



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a batch

here's a batch of midi keyboard tracks
that have accumulated over the week;
in all of them i basically improvised 3
piano tracks at a relatively slow speed,
sped them up and made them all sound like
``electric piano''











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more from da midi 2

remains fun!



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more from da midi

remains fun...



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played slow, sped up 2

this time, just playing the circle
of fourths; probably won't be the
last time! i need to learn new beats...



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played slow, sped up

shreddddgrr

pardon the abrupt ending



here is an extended version
(still pardon the abrupt ending)



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'jason murphy trios' release

well i decided to call it a wrap on the
general beauregard album 'jason murphy trios'

here is a download link

here is the last.fm page

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midistuff

playing around with the midi
keyboard and garage band...
it's quite fun!



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aquascape2

here's a project i did with my brother paul.
it might be nice for the morning-time, when
you're making breakfast...



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a trip to woodys

i'm really having fun video editing:



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midi keyboard

recently bought a new midi keyboard;
i've been playing around with it quite
a bit and have produced some real cheese!







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cheez

just playing around with garageband,
audacity, pencil, and imovie. fun fun!



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regularity

tonight's activity of choice was to play around
with the free 'pencil' animation software and
old sound recordings i had taken with my phone!



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globe

learn some national anthems with General Beauregard!



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feat. roland gibbs

jammed tonight with one roland
gibbs and recorded quite a bit
of material! here's a track we
let gb play around with a little
bit.



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video!

hey! here is some video i made
while playing around in iMovie
this evening.



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cover night

here is the guitar track from 'chubtown',
the nards+generalbeauregard collaborative
cover of 'funkytown':



here's a found sound cover of 'witchy woman':



both tracks are pretty fun i think.

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reject post 2

haven't posted in august yet,
so i decided to throw up a
few more reject posts.

here's a little guitar track
of mine:



here's a loop from a bill frisell
track:



this is the result of playing around
with a bill evans track:



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folksyguitar

i was playing this tonight
and thought it sounded nice
enough to write down and
record later!




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general beauregard says hello

i felt like doing some sampling
tonight, because it had been a
while. here is a definite
general beauregard effort!



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one five

this is sort of as simple as
it gets... it's just a 1-5
progression; i recorded two
tracks of essentially background
guitar and sent it off to a
friend. hopefully you will hear
this track again later with
some extra stuff on top!



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reject post 1

here are some rejects,
rejected for various reasons:

rejects01 = cheese



rejects02 and rejects03 are leftovers
from the anteater sessions...





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guitar guitar guitar again

same format as yesterday's post...



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guitar guitar guitar

4 guitar tracks and one reverse pedal...



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happy 4th!

here's a tune that's similar to
stuff i've done before... based
on a ii-V sound and reliant
on old editing tricks... anyway,
i think it's fun nonetheless!

and a special 4th of july message
from goal oriented music:

be careful and no one
blow their arm off please!



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earls breakdown broke down

first i recorded a track of playing around
on the banjo: i was intially trying to draw up
some muscle memories and play earl's breakdown,
and then i tried to improvise a bit.
then i recorded a guitar track to accompany
the banjo track, and i subsequently edited
some things (cut out some parts, looped some
things)...

all in all it's a pretty patchy track!



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chuck yeager

the first official release from the
new hit group chuck yeager!



the second official release from the
new hit group chuck yeager! this track
is based on the loop above, and i
think it's titled 'the answer is no'



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aquascape

here's a project i did with my brother paul.
it might be nice for the morning-time, when
you're making breakfast...



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may

may was a good month
for the blog, i think!



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countdown

today i recorded myself playing
over 'countdown' for a while,
and subsequently mined the track
for looping opportunities and
decent sounding segments in
general.



here's a short snippet that i
enjoy quite a bit for some
reason:



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loops

this is a fairly ambient track;
i recorded a couple of tracks
of guitar and then did some
audacity editing afterwards...



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anteater

here is a nice loop that occurred when
i was recording some stuff with nick
this evening, co-member of the new
tepepan artist 'anteater'



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herbie nichols

this is the result of my playing
around with a herbie nichols track
called 'house party starting.'
basically, i just listened to the
track on audacity and kept on
looping things as i saw fit.
i like the way it sounds so i
decided to post it, though i would
say this counts as far less than
original work!



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why not

tonight i played around with another
track featuring JCM2010 (the amazing
backwards guitar player); i have a
good post streak going so i decided
to go ahead and post it.



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paul motian & the electric bebop band

i looped and played over the intro
drums from the track 'brad's bag',
then did audio editing to my own
guitar stuff, and then played with
some samples from later in the same
track. i hope you like it!



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guitar noise

decided to post up a track i recorded
while watching a baseball game and
subsequently edited...



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'does humor belong in music'

this one is fun i think!



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JCM2010 strikes again

the amazing backwards guitar player
back in action to kick off the month
of may...



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guitar guitar guitar

this is a guitar improvisation...
(i'm squeezing in one last post
before april is over.) i liked the
way it turned out so i decided to
post!




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putting things together

that probably don't go together... i think
this is one is a bit strange; i'd definitely
call it a general beauregard effort.



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guitar guitar

here's a post for the sake of posting!
it's me on acoustic guitar + playing with
audio editing.



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goodbye march! (just a shell)

i decided to take tonight to make a blogpost
since march is about to end and i only posted
one other time in march. so this one is a
goodbye track to march... really, it's more
of a shell than a completed track, but i decided
to post it anyway...




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it's been a while!

march was a really busy month -- hope
that i can post more in the near future.

this is a general beauregard effort!



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body and soul (piano)

recently, i've been having a lot of fun
just playing the A section from body and
soul over and over again on the piano,
trying to coordinate my hands, find chords
faster, elaborate on the melody, and just
improvise in a self-sufficient way in
general. today i recorded my efforts, and
i thought this particular section was kind
of fun, so i've decided to post it. i edited
in a couple of loops to make the track segue
in and segue out more naturally, but otherwise
it's just me and the piano...



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piano triads

this quarter i've been playing piano pretty
regularly at the music school. i haven't posted
any piano stuff yet, so i thought i'd post
a short clip. this is me playing around with
triads, except for the ending chord, which
i'm sure was a mistake at the time but i ended
up liking the way it sounded quite a bit.



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my ideal

on kenny dorham's album 'quiet kenny' the pianist
is tommy flanagan; on the track 'my ideal' flanagan
takes a nice solo, and the sample used below is my
favorite moment of his solo...



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world wide space experiment

granger, a friend of his from buffalo
and i tried to have a jam session of
sorts over google video chat... granger
did some editing post. this is listenable
(but also a work in progress); i decided
to post it, as it has been a while...

a warning: it kind of jumps up in volume
at 30 seconds or so...



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medeski

this is basically a tribute to the track
'your lady' by mmw.



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general beauregard - ornette

this is an expansion of a cool ornette coleman
saxophone line into a general beauregard track;
also featuring JCM2010 the amazing backwards
guitar player!



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another post

just some fun with digital delay and
a recycled elvin jones drum loop...



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a post

it has been a while! sorry about that.
this one is fun i think:



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