Alright (Electric Demo)
This is an alternate version of a song that was on the last ep I released, Slip Away. You can hear the original acoustic version here. But this version is rather different from the acoustic version, it’s quite good for a rough demo the electric guitar sounds great.
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Just playing around with a version of Neil Young’s On the Beach. I think I’ve got the tone down pretty good.
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On The Beach | Neil Young
I think On the Beach is probably my favourite Neil Young album. The groove on this song is just so good. I finally just learnt to play this song after years of meaning to get round to it. The lead guitar on it is just perfect.
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So here’s an acoustic version of Theme#2 I was looking for a melody line for some lyrics and this is what seemed to fit. I think a little acoustic on the finished track will be cool too.
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This afternoon I worked up the jam that Mark and I came up with yesterday, came pretty cool, I like the progression a lot. It will sound great fleshed out with some drums and bass and some vocals. I think the progression sounds a little too distant too but this was recorded on my phone.
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Finally handed in my dissertation today, celebrated by jamming with my friend mark. We came up with this little snippet.
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Coming up with a load of new ideas for the run up to releasing my next ep. Some cool stuff in the offing.
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Lonely Soul (Version 1, Mix 1)
So back in August I started preparing what was supposed to be my third EP. I did a couple of sessions with my friend Chris (who has played on almost all my EPs) in which we worked up tracks and recorded a couple of songs. The one we got the furthest on was this song called Lonely Soul, I used to play it a lot at gigs and there are a couple of videos of it floating around but this recording is the most fleshed out recording of it.
The mix isn’t a final one, it has me playing acoustic guitar and an electric lead part and singing while Chris produced and added some piano overdubs. The quality isn’t too bad although the vocals should be a little louder and a little less reverb would help too I think.
I never finished the EP this was intended for, we recorded a couple of other tracks but we never got the chance to work them up into something more. Instead I recorded and released Slip Away in December. The main reason I haven’t shown you it sooner is because it was a WAV. file and was around 75mb and I didn’t have a converter to get it down to a small enough size to upload! But I thought it was high time I showed you something that slipped through the net.
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I guess I’ve been busy tonight, I just started writing this, it’s little more than an idea at the moment, but here it is. “Well I have nothing to say about what you want to talk about.” Recorded in my bathroom.
Also Kermit is my spirit muppet.
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Theme #1 This is a theme I’ve been working on lately, I’ve been working on building up some more lush layers to songs. This is going to eventually be a refrain or a reprise of a main song. It’s a little hazy for the first 3 minutes, and I trailed off with some bum notes near the end so excuse those haha! Have a listen see what you make of it.
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As I was saying yesterday, I have a terrible memory, so this is what I do - I make sure I write everything down. I’ve working on a song off and on for a few days and I hadn’t written any of it down yet so I’ve just sat down and made some quick notes about it - lyrics, chords, arrangement etc. Just so I don’t forget!
I have a terrible memory. I can never remember lyrics, not even my own. As soon as I write anything I have to write it down and demo it so I can come back to it when I need to. I’e pretty much gotten into that habit now. But occasionally I still lose songs. I just came across a demo of a song I wrote 3 months ago, and I tried picking up the guitar and playing it - but nothing, my lack of memory strikes again. So I thought “oh doesn’t matter the notes will be in my notebook.” I looked, nothing there, looked under the song title on my computer - nothing there either. Panic, I like the song and I didn’t want to lose it. Luckily it was saved under a weird file name, something like “hefehfhlefh” (I can’t always name songs right away.) But thankfully it’s found and I won’t have to spend 2 hours trying to work out what key I wrote it in or what chords I used! The song isn’t called hefehfhlefh, it’s called Dangers.
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Forgotten (Demo)
Just sort of had to get a demo of this done so I didn’t forget it. It’s developed a little more since my last post.
(via mjmoss)
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Just a quick demo of an idea.
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