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Gear for the Home Studio

Posted in GAS, GarageBand, Guitars, Home Studio, Music, Studio/Recording, amplifiers, amps, buying gear, gear, guitar, guitar gear, inspiration, instruction, mac, musicians, recording, songwriting, tagged GarageBand, guitar, Music, amps, recording, guitar gear, gear, guitarists, musicians, amplifiers, Home Studio, recording gear, mac on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

There are different schools of thought around this subject, but I thought I’d throw in some of my own thoughts, since I’ve been at it awhile. Note that I won’t be talking about techniques necessarily, though I will include some tips and tricks… So without further ado…
First, let’s establish something here: You don’t need [...]

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New Song: Lookin’ for the Good Life

Posted in Amps/Amplification, GarageBand, Guitars, Music, SM25, Saint Guitar Company, amplifiers, amps, gear, guitarists, musicians, reason amps, recording, tagged guitar, Music, recording, guitarists, musicians, saint guitars, reason amps, new song on November 28, 2008 | No Comments »

I love getting those intense spurts of creativity when I’m using awesome equipment. I just happened to have a couple of review pieces on hand: A Saint Guitars Benchmark and a Reason SM25 combo amp. This song started out as a simple riff this morning, and grew from there. It’s called Lookin’ for the Good [...]

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New Song: RESOLUTION

Posted in GarageBand, Music, guitar, guitarists, inspiration, songs on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This is an instrumental that evolved out of an acoustic guitar groove I came up with years ago. Recently, a friend of mine shared what he was going through with me, and how he came to resolution with what he was facing. It inspired me to put this instrumental-only song together called, RESOLUTION. Give it [...]

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Monumental Things Are Happening!

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Music, guitar, guitar gear, recording, tagged GarageBand on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

As some might know, I’ve spent the last year working on my first album, “You Stir My Soul,” which is a collection of contemporary religious songs I wrote for the Catholic Mass. About three weeks ago, I finished the album and submitted it to a digital distribution company to place on iTunes. They indicated that [...]

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New Song: We Are Called

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Music, Worship Music, guitar, recording, songs, songwriting on April 4, 2008 | No Comments »

I wrote this song based upon a passage in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus talks about being called into justice and mercy. The passage inspired me to write “We Are Called.” Note that the only amp I used was a Fender Champ 600. Using two different mics, spaced at different distances to provide a little [...]

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Breaking Through…

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, inspiration on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I was conversing with a friend of mine who just received his conditional black belt in Tae Kwon Do this past weekend - very great accomplishment. During the course of our conversation, he said the one missing ingredient in his study of martial arts is developing his “chi.” He believes in chi, but is having [...]

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Creating a Demo: Lessons Learned

Posted in GarageBand, Studio/Recording, recording, songs, songwriting on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »

A couple of years ago, I called Tom Booth, a prolific Catholic songwriter and recording artist. I was seeking advice on the best way to approach putting a demo together of the songs I’d written for Mass. I wanted to know things such as how much I should budget, what players I should bring in [...]

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New Song: Gathered As One Body

Posted in GarageBand, Worship Music, catholic music, christian music, christian worship, recording, songs on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I wrote this song about three years ago, and finally got around to doing a recording of it that I liked. My original recording was only a piano and an acoustic guitar, but I always wanted to do more with it, and also arrange it a bit differently than I originally wrote it, which was [...]

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Song: Come to the Water

Posted in GarageBand, Music, Worship Music, musicians, songs on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »

This is a cover of John Foley’s original song, “Come to the Water.” My version is in a folk-punk style ala Elliot Smith or Death Cab. http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=81505.

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GarageBand: It Must Be Karma! Another Crash! But I’m ECSTATIC!

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Studio/Recording, gear, iMac, mac, recording on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »

Talk about putting a product through its paces! My Mac fatally crashed yet again! Yikes! When that happened, I didn’t panic because based upon Boyd Jarvis’ input in my previous article on my Mac crashing, I went down to my local Apple store, and purchased a copy of Disk Warrior. I also talked to a [...]

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