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New Song Idea: Before the Night Falls

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, musicians, new song, songs, songwriting, tagged amp, amplification, amplifiers, amps, aracom, aracom amps, guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new song, prestige guitars on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Lindsay Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac once said (paraphrasing), “Ask any songwriter how music comes to them, and they’ll probably say, ‘I don’t know.’” This tune came to me several years ago during one of the darkest and bleakest points in my life. The market collapsed and I was out of a job, and couldn’t find [...]

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New Song: Running from the Future

Posted in Amps/Amplification, GarageBand, Guitars, Music, amplifiers, amps, aracom amps, fender, guitar, guitarists, musicians, prestige guitars, songs, songwriting, tagged guitar, Music, Guitars, amps, guitarists, musicians, songs, amplifiers, new song, amp, aracom amps, aracom, amplification, Hot Rod Deluxe, hot rod, song, prestige, prestige heritage elite, VRX22, Aracom VRX22, VRX, hot on April 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Ever been in one of those situations where you have to face up to something you’d said or done, but avoid it all costs because it gives you this feeling of impending doom? I was recently in a situation like this, and it wasn’t at all comfortable going through the emotional and psychic turmoil leading [...]

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Might be time…

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, inspiration, songs, songwriting, tagged guitar, guitarists, inspiration, new song, song, songs, songwriting on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

…to give up on a dream, or perhaps, maybe an illusion. I wrote a new song yesterday for Mass based on Psalm 32, called “I Turn to You.” Give it a listen: Anyway, when I uploaded it to iCompositions, and wrote the song summary, I included that the song and lyrics were free for the [...]

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Heading Into New Territory

Posted in Music, musicians, songs, songwriting, tagged Music, songwriting on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As part of my five-year-plan to be on the road touring, I entered three of my songs into the Song Door International Songwriters Competition. This is a big step for me as I’m crossing into completely new territory. It’s one thing to get acclaim from your friends, it’s an entirely different matter to have your [...]

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New Jam Track

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, jam track, songs on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=94586 Had another song idea, but thought I’d share the main riff as a Jam Track. It’s a slow ballad in A. I actually had a lot of fun with this, working between an A major scale and a F#m pentatonic then adding some diatonic runs as well. With this tempo (mm=84), you can play [...]

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New Song: Attraction – The Animal Side

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitarists, musicians, recording, songs on August 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=93388 This is the first kind of risque song that I’ve ever written. The back story is that I went dancing last weekend and ended up dancing with this super-sexy 22 year old girl that danced like she was pole dancing. It was amazing to behold. Funny thing was that I sort of beside myself [...]

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New Song: I Come To You

Posted in Guitars, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, recording, songs, songwriting on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just wrote this one today. While a love song, I wanted to be careful about the lyrics because it’s easy to get cheesy. But at the same time, I didn’t want to get really cerebral like Sting because I can’t do it as well – sounds way too formal and contrived, whereas Sting can almost [...]

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New Song: You’re Stuck With Me

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, recording, songs, songwriting on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Song Link It’s funny how the inspiration for a song comes. I started out writing out the idea of a song that evolved into a jam track that evolved into a completed song structure that finally evolved into a finished piece, replete with vocals and a guitar solo. For this piece, “You’re Stuck With Me” [...]

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Song Update ~ Anyone want to collaborate?

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, jam track, musicians, recording, songs, songwriting on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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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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