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Heading Into New Territory

Posted in Music, musicians, songs, songwriting, tagged Music, songwriting on September 19, 2008 | No Comments »

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 | No Comments »

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 your [...]

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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 | No Comments »

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 [...]

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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 »

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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” I [...]

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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 | 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 [...]

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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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New Song: The Lord Is Kind

Posted in Music, Worship Music, catholic music, guitar, recording, songs on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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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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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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