Name: no excuses - Alice in Chains by erielake studios
Duration: 4 min 14 s
Description: Don Scanlon all vocals....my acoustic and electric guitars, bass and a drumtrack from MegaTallica 97

The autonomous subway in Suwon South Korea opened and it has a front glass window. This is a long exposure going through the tunnel.

Photo by Mathew Schwartz
unsplash.com/photos/sb7RUrRMaC4

The stopwatch was captured from the 60 minutes intro:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb6UgPSdp0o
and compressed to match the BPM of the song.

We are continually late and trying to beat the clock 
while trying to get from one place to the next.
Technology has done a pretty good job of reducing our transit time.
In imagining how to musically depict the sensation of getting up to speed,
I wondered at what techniques might be possible...
AND
...How might it be done without changing the tempo in the least?
It eventually dawned on me that nothing new had to be invented,
because we have all experienced this...maybe without even noticing it.
Going from Legato to Stacatto, 
and to packing more and shorter duration notes into each measure,
then cranking up the pitch into a higher key...to add just a dash of tension.

Accelerate

Some of you will be familiar with this tune, and indeed it has been modified to include a bit of audio which was the basis of the theme. This bit of audio is the original recording of Stephen around 1982. I had looked for that recording for decades to be included just before the start off this song. Also, most recently I had redoubled my effort to find it to play for my beautiful wife as  she lay on her death bed. But, alas, I was only to find it the very day after her passing.

As you might imagine, the old cassette tape was full of hiss. So, my good friend and mentor, Sander (https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer), volunteered to help subtract that flaw and render Stephen's little voice to crystal clarity. Well, that is very much part of Sander's trademark. Thank you, Sander.

And below follows the original description of the song:


This is a song from a child which has no voice of his own. Having succumbed to the side effects of a childhood vaccination, he was never able to learn the spoken word...though through some miracle he seems to have developed perfect pitch. 

How would I know? Well, if I pick up various objects which can make a tone if they are blown into, though he may have heard it only once before, he will sometimes sing the note as it is being picked up. Blow into that object and, sure enough, he is in tune with it.

He was only about 3 years old when we were trying in vain to get him to speak into a tape recorder. Instead, he came up with this tune, which I decided to just add accompaniment. The original recording actually had his voice on it, but it has been lost over the years.

Stephen's Song (REMIX)

The Forest

YOUTUBE CHANNEL: www.youtube.com/user/WrittenForGuitar
BANDCAMP: georgewanat.bandcamp.com/

WANATG@GMAIL.COM

Invariance (Free Download)

My new song written on my acoustic piano this time. 
Thank you to my lovely Sander for this gorgeous master. @wane-of-summer 😊🎶❤️🎤🎼🎧🎹🎵❤️

SEARCHLIGHT (with acoustic piano)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwSaW1a8Ozg
BANDCAMP: georgewanat.bandcamp.com/

wanatg@gmail.com

Mechanical Dream (Watch the Video)(Free Download)

Introspection Demo 44

New Beginning

YOUTUBE VIDEO: youtu.be/lllcXgdfycE
Bandcamp: https://georgewanat.bandcamp.com/

Biding Time (Watch The Video)(Free Download)

My new song with piano, bass, drums, electric piano, pizzicato strings, flutes, bells, koto sound and vocals! 😊🎶❤️🎤🎹🎧🎵🎼

Thanks to my lovely Sander for fabulous mastering service again. @wane-of-summer 😊❤️

SURPRISE

Don Scanlon all vocals....my acoustic and electric guitars, bass and a drumtrack from MegaTallica 97

no excuses - Alice in Chains

erielake studios

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