I finally did some recording yesterday. This is the recording I did, I originally wrote this song in the 90s. It's basically about a guy being told his girlfriend is cheating, but he doesn't want to believe it. In the end he does finally start believing the stories and decides to leave her though. This was all recorded on a Zoom R8 with a little after editing on my PC using Audacity.

Any Old Way

One of my more recent songs. This was written about 2 or 3 years ago, but I never got around to recording it. 

The Squeaky Wheel

A song about communication. There's not much else to say about it. Too many people don't speak about things they should talk out. Instead they let it eat away inside of them and it often builds into something worse. 


"There can be nothing if we never speak

 There can be no way for us to work it out"


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Speak

This is an attempt at writing songs that are one minute or less in length. I started it originally for TikTok, but am posting the songs other places as well. I'm not saying all of my songs will be that short, but I will try to write a few more.

Maybe I Was Wrong

This is technically the first song I wrote back in 1986, but I never completed it, which is why Love Is In The Air is actually the first song I wrote. I just had the lyrics for this one and the melody in my head back then, but never did any more than that. This is the first time I ever tried recording it. Overall it is the same song I had the idea for back in the 80s, it's just more guitar orientated than it would have been back then.

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What They Are (Why Can't People)

Music and Lyrics by Beatnick
All vocals, instruments and programming by Beatnick
Recorded on a Zoom R8

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Changed

This is my Christmas song I wrote back in 1989. I never got around to making an official recording of it until now.

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Christmas Can Be Every Day (of the year)

This is another track from my album "A Memory Ago." This is one of my favorites, but it's really unfair to call it a favorite since every song on that album is personal to me on some level. This was recorded early in the 2000's and it's really when I started taking my guitar playing more seriously. Before then I played around and occasional recorded with it, but it pretty much became my main instrument at that point (It was keyboard before that. The main riff for this song had been sitting around for a while before that, but it wasn't until I got my Yamaha QY100 that it all came together. The QY100 is a small music sequencer and I used it for all the backing tracks. I still have that and occasionally still use it. I used a Zoom PS-04 4 track to record, The PS-04 does have built in effects for guitar, I'm about 90% sure that's what I used, but it might have been a Digitech GNX-1.  When I was creating the backing track on the QY100 I tried to come up with a bass track, but nothing really sounded right. I finally ended up recording without it. I hope you enjoy it.

A Memory Ago

The Riddle

Originally written around 1991. This recording was done around 2005.

Be sure to check out the lyric video
https://youtu.be/l971BvQKGQY

Sometimes

This was written and recorded around 2005. The song is basically about the feeling when you lose a very close friend.

Be sure to check out the lyric video too
https://youtu.be/M9QzaECm0Yg

Without You

This song is something a little different for me and it is definitely not meant to be taken seriously. I wrote it about 13 years ago and it is not written about anyone specific, so don't ask who it is about. I found the lyrics to be amusing as I wrote them in that sort of dark humor sense of way. This was recorded on a Zoom PS04 recorder around the same time I wrote it. I hope you enjoy it.

Check out the lyric video on YouTube
https://youtu.be/_LCeqWzLzSc

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