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My Girl Bermuda

Jun

2012

I have not been writing as much lately but wanted to post this tune I recorded last month. For now no individual tracks – but I hope you like the mixdown of “My Girl Bermuda” – Enjoy! My Girl Bermuda [ 5:57 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Share

One Two, One Two, One One

Jan

2012

What is it like to drive 1400 MPH? I used an HD Flip Video Camera and recorded a video of a full length drive from Chesapeake to Hampton Virginia, including a traffic jam, going through the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel, stopping for an iced tea at Sonic drive thru – and getting lost in residential Hampton. ...

Amy’s Song

Jul

2011

My Daughter is away on a mission trip in Canada and I have been missing her a lot. Usually I include the individual mix tracks on the Open Source Music Project – but this time the mixdown is pretty much exactly the content of the individual tracks – I’s a slow soulful song I hope ...

Music Studio App

Feb

2011

I have been on an extended visit to my Brother Steve’s place near Atlanta as he recuperates from some surgery. He is getting along fine, and I am heading back to Virginia in a couple of days. Meanwhile I just had to do some kind of music while I was here. I mean two weeks ...

Steve’s Buddy

Dec

2010

I believe the Holidays are about faith and family and not necessarily about the dollar value of the gift. So I wanted to give some very personalized gifts for the holidays this year for many reasons – mostly because I did not want to fall into the trap of buying some generic piece of crap at Wal*Mart and calling it a Christmas present. I decided to ...

The Long Walkabout

Sep

2010

According to Wikipedia, Walkabout refers to a rite of passage during which male Australian Aborigines would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months.In this practice they would trace the paths, or “songlines”, that their people’s ceremonials ancestors took, and imitate, in a fashion, their ...

Sailing East

Sep

2010

I wrote this song for a friend of mine who likes my acoustic leaning mixes. It was really a quick thing that came out better than I thought it would. At first I fooled around with a simple chord progression on my guitar and got the tempo from a setting on my digital piano. On ...

Second Chances

Sep

2010

I worked on this one a good long time –so the finished recording is somewhat dense compared to “Still In The Night” – but I still left most of the tracks I recorded out of the mix. And the title… well If I were writing lyrics to this melody there would be the phrase “Second ...

Still In The Night

Aug

2010

This is really a great melody. Although I tried to keep this clean with simple instrumentation it ended up getting a little complicated. There is a bass line track in there I played manually and another one generated by the automated accompaniment track in my Technics Digital Piano. When I took out the accompaniment track ...

Dotin Dah

Aug

2010

I am sure there will be a post detailing this further – but all my personal and professional web sites are in one master directory inside my Rackspace server account. Several weeks ago the sites were hacked by a program called a SQL Injection Trojan – which is a sort of attack dog on the ...