This is the audio story from Maria H, a student from my adult ESOL class, fall 2012.

Maria H (my story)

Maria recorded this audio story in my adult ESOL class.

My Story (Maria M.)

Rosalia wrote and recorded this audio story in my adult ESOL class fall 2012.

Rosalia's Story

Short instrumental music track of "This Land is Your Land."  We may use this to practice singing and recording performances in class.

This plays the chorus, with a short interlude 3 times.  (The melody and chords for the chorus and versus are the same.)

I followed the sheet music provided by the PBS "THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND PROJECT."  You can find it here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/this-land/sheet-music-and-lyrics/

This was also an excuse to try to learn Reason 5.  I'm new to Reason, so I did all of the mixing and arrangement in Audacity. 

This land (86bpm) (3x's)

An extended version of the instrumental track for "This Land is Your Land."

Arranged to include room for six verses, and less breaks/interludes.

I intend to keep make changes and later incorporate the performances from my adult ESOL students.

Verse 1, Break
Verse 2, Chorus, Break
Verse 3, Chorus, Break
Verse 4, Chorus, Break
Verse 5, Chorus, Break
Verse 6, Chorus, Break 

This land (86bpm) (6xs verse)

This is an extended version of the song I made for my mom for Mother's Day.  I built the song around a 1932 recording of W. B. Yeats reading "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" for BBC radio.

I use samples of guitar I recorded, along with some of my field recordings of water, birds, insects, among other things.

I sample generously from Excavated Shellac's vinyl transfers of music from the 1930s. (ExcavatedShellac.com)

I also use a large portion of Luftrum's "Drone Atmosphere," found on FreeSound.org.

W B Innisfree (extended)

I began with an audio recording of Jack Kerouac reading a haiku, and added sounds and music.  The sounds/music are CC or public domain.  The attributions, with links, can be found below.

The music was found on FreeMusicArchive.org
"no hay choristas" by Un Festin Sagital: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/un_festin_sagital/Gauchito_Gil_contra_Colocolo/02-Un_Festin_Sagital 

I use several samples found at FreeSound.org

1190_fly.wav from reinsamba: http://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/57789/

FlyPassing.wav from HerbertBoland: http://www.freesound.org/people/HerbertBoland/sounds/75191/

fly.00.wav from dobroide: http://www.freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/7973/

Medicine Cabinet.wav from forestclay: http://www.freesound.org/people/forestclay/sounds/178752/

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