Recordings

Staging area for recording experiments. Unless otherwise noted, I made this stuff up and played all instruments.

• Ambien (2/3/18)

• Duo (2/3/18)

• Homework Blues, Take 1 (4/15/18)

  Recorded for Guitar Tips Pro composition challenge

• Homework Blues, Take 2 (4/15/18)

  Ditto

• Homework Blues, Take 3 (4/15/18)

  Double Ditto

• DingleDangle (12/1/18)

  Got a mixer for early Christmas. Testing 1,2,3.

• Phase Fuzz Bass (12/1/18)

  What happens when you run your kid’s bass through a Sunbender?

• Cold Mist, Half Moon (12/5/18)

  Two people told me this sounds like Pink Floyd. I’ll take that as a compliment

• Rage For Peanut Butter (12/19/18)

  Don’t ask.

• Setenta Menos (12/21/18)

  Playing slow in time is hard. Multitracking is hard.

• Silver Bells (12/24/18)

  Obviously, this one’s not mine. Happy Holidays!

• Morbid Icicle (12/28/18)

• 1 Bar Boy Blues (1/7/19)

  Happy New Year! This track features The Boy on bass, The Old Man on Guitar (tracked live), and The Old Man on drums (overdubbed). A fine start. We’ll work on the changes next.

• Salacious Fur(1/11/19)

• Ungoat(1/23/19)

• ForThree (1/27/19)

• Get On The Mic (2/1/19)

  Upgraded junky old mic from Demo Girl’s karaoke machine with a proper condenser. No compositional integrity or restraint here, just random thoughts into a new mic (bass and guitar) with some new placement options. Sounds better, methinks. One thing less to hide behind.

• 12 Bar Boy Blues (2/2/19)

  Told you we’d work on the changes. This track features The Boy on bass, The Old Man on Guitar (tracked live).

• Brother John (2/8/19)

  First try recording acoustic with MXL 991. Ancient Satriani cover.

• G Whiz (2/8/19)

  First swing at Open G tuning. Need some new voicings…

• RandoLoop1 (2/8/19)

  Insert cable mayhem. Yes, you can Ditto a mic’ed acoustic.

• Feets Of Strength (2/17/19)

  When you’re thoroughly beat and try to channel McCoy Tyner for the first time, then record it. Great idea. First attempt at mixing and mastering.

• Slide Into 14 (2/18/19)

  The Boy slid into 14 today. Happy Birthday Z!

• Snow Day Blues (2/22/19)

  Formerly known as the Homework Blues, but then my homework was never quite like this! This time it gets a walking bass line, which it turns out is suprisingly tricky to do. Something to aspire to…

• One Track Wonder 1 (3/3/19)

  Experiment: one track per instrument, one take per instrument. Effectively, a solo free jazz ensemble if that makes any sense. It really doesn’t, but that’s all part of the fun. Plus my debut on whiskey tumbler and some faux-dub mixer madness.

• Coil Tap Blues (3/3/19)

  Today I discovered my #1 guitar has a pull pot for coil taps. Only took several years to notice. Facepalm… Experiment with coil taps plus wide-panning ala Tim Pierce.

  Left Channel Rhythm: both pickups tapped
  Right Channel Rhythm: both pickups humbucking
  Lead: neck coil tapped

• One Track Wonder 2 (3/9/19)

  You know the drill. One track per instrument, one take per instrument. Did separate rhythm and lead guitar tracks this time. Wasn’t feeling the free jazz today, so more of a rock number. Of course an intelligent person wouldn’t play the rhythm and lead parts fingerstyle on a rock track. As Charlie Hunter would say “picks are for kids”. Sure did miss it on the solo part though.

• NewFlats (3/10/19)

  Couldn’t take the squeaks anymore. Tele Savales has 11 gauge flats again. This is a rambling improv designed to let me hear what the the different pickups sound like with the new strings. Plus a Ditto loop blues jam. For the pedantic or bored only.

• Warming Trend (3/13/19)

  It broke 40F today. Huzzah! Had to drop an almost-OTW to celebrate. Screwed up level on first guitar track, so did a second. Worked on getting good sync between bass and drum tracks. Also aimed for no “blues licks” on the guitar part. Think at least one snuck in though. Oh well.

• One Track Wonder 3 (4/8/19)

  Got behind on weekly recording due to Spring Break. So last week’s retroactive TOTW is my first recorded Tone Clock improv. The Tone Clock is a complex and interesting beast. I’m just getting started with it and color me intrigued. In a nutshell, you create a 12-tone sequence by permuting a 3-note chord by a 4-note chord to get a 12-tone “harmonic field”. Then you can compose based on that field, or improvise using those notes. Check out 24 Tone Clocks for proper examples of Tone Clock compositions.

• Sweet 16 Improv (4/10/19)
  First improv with new Maneco Sweet 16 looper pedal.

• One Track Wonder 4 (4/10/19)
  Sweet 16 in a more vaguely musical context.
  

• Sweet Sunbender (4/10/19)
  Try it with fuzz and whammy guitar.
  

• Sweet 16 Improv (4/10/19)
  Last looper test: C Minor Space Blues
  

• Fourteen Of Four (4/14/19)
  Clever name, huh? Trying to use the looper in a tune again. This one more premeditated than the last time. Think it sounds better when I just wing it.

• Seventh Hour (4/17/19)
  Another Tone Clock improv One Take Wonder.
  

• 430 (4/30/19)
  One-third of a One Take Wonder. Guitar take took 3 tries. Close but no cigar.
  

• OTW5 (4/30/19)
  Playing catchup from last week. Extra One Take Wonder.
  

• dimbulb (5/8/19)
  Tried to formulate a non-standard progression and possibly paid the price.

• mistur (5/27/19)
  Quick etude inspired by Adam Levy and Jimmy Wyble

• OTW6 (5/28/19)
  loop improv

• OTW6 (5/28/19)
  loop improv

• aggroDelay (5/28/19) extract from OTW6 by The Boy

• vibeyDelay (5/28/19)
  extract from OTW6 by The Boy

• warmDelay (5/28/19)
  extract from OTW6 by The Boy
  

• warm Remix (5/28/19)
  remix of WarmDelay by The Boy
  

• Gots To Move (6/12/19)
  this week’s TOTW

• Stalagtite (6/12/19)
  a.k.a. OTW7 I bid you welcome to my subterranean kingdom