before november slips away

one from st. louis...

recording quality ain't the best

before november slips away

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practicing piano

took me a while to get to
the point where i could
play this melody live!

play what, you ask? actually,
i deleted the track until i can
make a better recording of it :-D

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saturday night

i have recorded this melody before...

recall

this started off as a jam track
to practice piano over,

but i figured i might as well
record some guitar over it!

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the first of winter

the first of winter

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db

another garage band eigenjam...

it's kind of a rough edit, and overall
slightly ridiculous. i'm also not sure
if all of these tracks just sound the
same. oh well!

here is db on bandcamp

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the only melody i know (ii)

the only melody i know (ii)

for the sake of posting... some supercheese

long time no post

i haven't posted for a long time, but i did make
a track tonight!

i'm thinking i'll have a new format for this blog.
i won't post those crappy players anymore; instead
i'll host my stuff at

goalorientedmusic.bandcamp.com

happy birthday mark!!

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short melody

found this melody tonight...



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new loop

new loop, old chord progression;
complete with audio editing;

peppy!

lame ending, but at least there is an ending!



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stl piano ditty

here's a little ditty i wrote today,
played on the piano in st. louis
and then looped a couple of times.



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many guitars

hello c mixolydian



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snippet

just a taste...



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a composition

here's a recording of something i wrote;
i like the chord progresson, but i am a
little rusty with the recording i think!



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groove in C

sorry for the lack of posts!

i've been playing, but not
doing much recording...



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groove in E

it's been a while! i've been playing,
but not recording. i decided to put
together a post. here it is!



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cantarnos

the drums are from 'cantarnos'
by andrew hill, off of the
album 'black fire'...



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duke ellington - carnegie blues

(general beauregard remix)



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chord progression

wrote a short chord progression...

took the drum sample from the intro
to a max roach track...



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more loops

roughly in the key of E;



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sunday evening

and now, back to work...



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saturday afternoon

more many guitars...
ii-V stuff...



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saturday morning

the samuel ham posts are a bit crazy;
i wanted to post something sane to
balance them out...



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sick

hope this puts you right at ease!



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jam sesh w/ samuel ham

our take on kieran hebden & steve reid



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st. louis

here's a post from st. louis; recording quality
is not optimal, but i think it's a nice enough tune!



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more many guitars

this is a fun way to make tracks...



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bill evans

below are a few samples taken from
'all of you' on a bill evans album
and looped; i post this mainly b/c
i thought the drums sounded kind of
interesting, given that the track is
from 1961...



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many guitars

here are 5 guitars layered on top of
each other, trying to play along to
a chord progression that keeps changing
slightly...

it falls apart at the end... but i think
overall it holds together fairly well...



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e.g.

a fun little track to make...
threw in some weird vocal
sounds for fun...



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feat. sh and rg

some cheese with the lovely
roland gibbs and samuel ham



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just like i pictured it

i just did some looping and layering
of a portion of this tune by medeksi
martin & wood... call this one an ode
to mmw! (essentially i'm just sharing
with you all parts of a nice medeski
track)



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study music...

A7 G7 Em7... can't go wrong



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rained in

the drums here i sampled from a georg graewe
track; the drummer is michael vatcher.



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body & soul

happy presidents day!



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mine depleted

this one has a sort of unsettling
quality to it, i think. a fair
warning that this one is pretty
repetitive, too! this one was fun
in that it has both bass and drums
sampled; no midi nothin! pardon
the abrupt ending...




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coltrane groove

i genuinely hope that coltrane is
not turning in his grave bc of this...



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from 'from the body'

again, jack d on the drums; some eigenjam
cheese type stuff, but i hope to continue
to find ways not to use midi drums...



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seven

the drums are sampled from a track on a
keith jarrett album; they're being played
by jack dejohnette.



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don't blame me

a little taste of gb! this track
is a tribute to hank jones; i
just sampled the intro of
'don't blame me' off the joe
lovano album 'i'm all for you'



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composin

i'm having fun trying to compose
tracks using coltrane changes and
more involved song structures than
"repeat these 4 chords indefinitely";

there are a few rough spots on this
track, but hey, at least i held off on
the midi drums:



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another

here's a shorter one; at the end
you hear some of the changes from
my previous post. anyway, i think
it's a nice little track:



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coltrane changes

see if you can spot them!

rhythmically, it's looser
than i was hoping for...

melody features a super
cheesy line...



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samuel ham

some cheese with samuel ham!



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eigenjam 7 & 8

here are two more from the
eigenjam series to finish
off the weekend.



i tried to write a more
complicated chord pattern
for this one...



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eigenjam 6

here's one more from the
eigenjam series...

the progression here is
very simple; it is a ii-I.



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eigenjam 3, 4, & 5

three more from the
'eigenjam' project:

the first one is just a 1-4,
and it's a very slow jam.



the second is a four-chord
progression, and it turned
out very 'inside'.



this last one represents
an early effort; it's very
loose and ultimately it's
a bit of a joke...



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eigenjam 2

gettin cheesy with
my one man band!
this is basically
a 3-6-2-5 pattern...

i hadn't taken a solo
on an electric guitar
for a while... it's a
bit rocky at some points,
but it was fun to play!



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eigenjam

here's one from my
one-man jam-band!



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ravel

i've been trying to learn 'forlane' from
'le tombeau de couperin' by maurice ravel;
basically i worked on the first 8 bars all
night. this is the harmonic shell of the
first 8 bars.



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feel-good / formulaic 3

i don't know if this one is
'feelgood' or not; to me it's
kind of sickly sweet...



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feel-good / formulaic 2

a reprise of last night's post...
there may be more of these to come,
because they're pretty fun to make...



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feel-good / formulaic

for my post tonight, i tried
to make something formulaic,
with `inside harmonies', in
the hopes that it would play
like `feelgood' music. of
course, i couldn't resist
taking a solo. anyway, for
a midi track, i'm pretty pleased
with the sound.




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happy new year

this happened...
i think it's kind of funny



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