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This needs a lot of work/love. I can’t solo for shit on guitar. Gawd!

A friend of mine did some awesome poop in his spare time. He picked up a crap guitar, a crap bass and his powerbook at the place where he teaches music. He recorded a pretty sweet groove with some dirty drums behind it. Recorded through the Powerbook’s crap mic I think but it came out all nice and dirty.

Here’s the goddamn original:

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It’s decent. It’s catchy. But, like all beautiful things … I had to destroy it. Tramp flowers.

Here’s the sacrificial lamb:

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It starts out as a polka slaughter. Sparing no one, humiliated, insulting and omnivorous. But then I caught an idea at the end and tried to turn the world back into a happy place. It may be corny at the end but it was kinda a soulful hook there for a sec, had to build on it.

N’Joy.

Blisters. >_<

There’s some work to be done on this one. Drums are a bit aggressive. I love the way the idea in the middle came out. I lost my vocal idea somewhere in the recording process. I’ll have to just listen to it a while to get it back.

Jun Jun Jun Jun.

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Ok, ok. So 9 hours later, I have this piece of crap. “Oh wah”, you say. Seriously, this needs to be overhauled. And the blog just isn’t a great way to say, “hey I fixed it”. When I post a song and rework it, it might be on an old post. So bearing that in mind, when I post a tune for the first time usually my limited audience only hears it once.

But I encourage you to click that little category up there (recordings) and check back on older tunes. I might have published an update. Meh, like I said, a blog doesn’t lend itself well to music publishing. I don’t what does, the radio? Shoving music down people’s throats? I guess.

So I give you Click. The A section and B section hardly match except by some very small thread of beat. It develops and changes pace very quickly. I might not be able to mend it.

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An updated tune: “Finish”.

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Um. This is a tune ripped off from a video I saw on google video. It was some Bush bashing thing. The link is there.

What’s important is the fact that I spent 1.5 hours playing this lick straight. Talk about repetition. I’ll probably have to practice it everyday to be able to play it. It’s incredibly computerized. I think it plays only one note at a time. It’s very hard. Enjoy.

So, one track is the loop. The other two loops are me playing. I had to play along, which is where the 1.5 hours straight comes in. The middle part (as it stands) is just me. I spent forever just getting the part worked out, I think I nailed it. Whoever did this probably wonders why the hell anyone would spend the time to mimick an obvious synth, but whatever, maybe if I post the link it will get back to them.

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If you have any questions, please see picture or song for details. Thanks.

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Not done. It’s just 00:52 long. Ignore the cheesy title.

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Ok, majorly reworked. Bridge, vocals. Robot vs human theme going here. It is nearly polished.

I don’t think I’m going to post iterative things again. Very confusing.

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This is something that I started just messing around with fast picking. I’m no guitar player by any means but I think it came out ok. The lyrics were added as a challenge to do Norwegian metal type lyrics. It’s complete nonsense. And punk socks has nothing to do with anything, it’s not punk and I don’t own socks.

I looped good parts, but the rest is ‘live’. So I cheated a little bit but there’s no MIDI programming or clean up.

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