Messing about again as usual, thought the banjo sound on my GR-55 was sweet and after a bit of noodling realised I had a nice sound for Songbird...so here it is. Harmonies coming from my trusty TC Helicon VoiceLive2

Got the lyric at the start wrong though..bugger!


Songbird On A Banjo

Wicked Way Tk2

A slightly better mix
still rough from rehearsal footage

This is my band The Gadgeteers, I play guitar/synth guitar, and backing vocals with them, occasionally, but reluctantly, sometimes lead vocals.


Wicked Way Tk3

My Friends Andy and Tracey are getting married today, this seemed a nice song for the occasion

Book Of Love

messing about with some equipment.

nothing much to see here unless you like really bad vocals.

Bad Loop Rising

just messing, the refrain is a different chord sequence but I thought Id see if I could make it work in a loop

Looping Good

Bit of Tom Jones, Leonard Cohen and Ebow fun.

Tower of song

In a bit of a Tom Jones mood, but not as talented.
Done with My Gibson Blues hawk through an Adrenalinn III on setting 14, and pumped into garage band. No loops on this one. 3 tracks, and an initial discarded rough play through to sync.


I who have nothing

Trying to get a grip on Logic pro....its quite tricky..

Anyway I did the guitar riff on the R300 looper and recorded it then did vocals and lead guitar over it...aded a booming fretless bass and left it at that for now.

Fever

Just the worst singing ever...but putting it here to compare later as I get used to logic pro..the solo at the end is nice though

In a Broken Dream

A "live" loop (I did the bass 1st though), with me using my GR-55 RC300 and VoiceLiveTouch 
Everything is me on this, the female singing along is done with the VL harmony with 1 voice. She's a little distorted but it kinda works.
The strings, nylon guitar and building vocal PAD and bass are kicked in at different times as I tapdance between the RC300 and Gr-55... Made a lot of mistakes till I got this..and this isn't perfect but I'm happy with it as a working version. I added the notes in case anyone wants to try it, though I will probably edit and improve this. Also I got the lyrics online and they're a little wrong in places.

Set the fire to the 3rd Loop

None of these recordings are intended as serious musical offerings, its a collection of covers and twiddles from an improving guitar player who can't sing and likes to play with recording gadgets and effects and hear them back. Apologies in advance for the bad vocals, be assured no copyright infringments are intended.


Brian Beuken

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