Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, jam track, musicians, recording, songs, songwriting on July 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Just finished the complete song structure for what’s tentatively known as “Mr. Chunky” for the chunky twang rhythm part in the song. I’m looking for drums and bass for the song as I kind of “faked” it with audio loops for the drums and input the bass with MIDI. I posted a Jam Track earlier [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Music, Worship Music, catholic music, guitar, recording, songs on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I actually wrote this song quite awhile ago - I think Christmas Day, 2006. I did an early recording of it - very bad quality, and as I’ve been working on my demo, realized that I hadn’t re-recorded it. This was a must-have song on my demo.
Anyway, here’s the song: http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=85823
Note that I have instrumentation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Studio/Recording, Worship Music, christian music, christian worship, recording, songs, songwriting on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Listen to the song!
I actually wrote this song a couple of years ago, and have played it live a ton of times since then. Don’t know why I didn’t record it earlier, but I think I was a little scared of the arrangement of the guitars - I needed three to pull it off, with [...]
Posted in Studio/Recording, recording, songs, songwriting on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Praise the Lord My Soul
I wrote this song in mid-2006, but didn’t get around to recording it until this past week. It’s yet another praise song, but it’s a praise song with a twist. It’s written as a blues/funk piece. One wouldn’t normally equate funk/blues with contemporary Christian music, but all I can say is [...]
Posted in Music, musicians, songs, songwriting on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I was over at igblog reading about Lindsey Buckingham in Ig’s article, “Lindsey Buckingham, guitar hero? « IG BLOG (life-music-guitar)” and something that Lindsey said in the accompanying video really struck a note with me (paraphrased): “Most song writers will say that song writing isn’t something that they make happen. It’s something that happens to [...]
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 [...]
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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