Oh man this great!! theres nothing like that undeniable calling of the guitar.. very happy you hit record..

Collection of all the solo acoustic guitar pieces uploaded. All music played by Matthew Naylor, all written by Matthew Naylor except "Please Anji walk don't run", "Autumn Leaves" and "Horn" (theme)

Solo Acoustic Guitar

Gospel in, Gospel out  
Garbage in, Garbage out
Gospel in, Garbage out
Garbage in, Gospel out
You decide.

Music by Matthew Naylor

GiGo (Acoustic Guitar - Chord Melody)

so that’s what you think of Dol Lull Bee hey? no wonder he didn’t want to see you. well up on the first floor I’m still hitting the hay. long time without a sound, long time without a name. flaming up the place is almost never the answer. pipe down Henry I think you’ve had enough. Jay Eff wept on, I felt sorry but haven’t ceased. when was the last time you destroyed a perfectly good day.

Came across the line for the title whilst reading Charles Bukowski’s “Note of a Dirty Old Man” and used it as inspiration for an improvised piece. Tuned my guitar to C# G C# F# G# C# and played whatever came out for 12ish minutes then from combining 2 sections got my 2ish minutes. Sketch 1 as it’s pretty rough and I’m thinking of doing a series. 

It’s not meant to be pretty, you know!

Music, performance and recording by Matthew Naylor.

cities are built to kill people (sketch 1) [Solo Acoustic Guitar]

track 01 / big fuzzy bumblebees
short stuff EP / released july 17, 2023
10 songs in 5 minutes. *

album artwork by my daughter - www.instagram.com/iboyte/

1. big fuzzy bumblebees 00:39
2. you're everything to me 00:34
3. handsome model man 00:35
4. street fighter theme for bass guitar, oboe* and flute** 00:35
5. any other way 00:11
6. i am not the one (ft taxihome) 00:30
7. hoochie mama (ft auntspinkick) 00:24
8. and they wait for the tiny bone 00:47
9. right behind you 00:21
10. sad little scratchy thing 00:32

all music and what not by andrew salvner except for:
- the reversed drums on track 2 are from plex auchta
- track 4 is a cover of a riff from a street fighter video game
- track 6 uses a reversed portion of a taxihome song

@plex-auchta
www.streetfighter.com
@taxihome

* 5:05 if you're gonna be a dick about it

short stuff

big fuzzy bumblebees

he wished everything would fade away.

reversed bass and drums by https://soundcloud.com/five-extra-arms

and he wanted to pay (slowed+reverb)

My friends with the "Muse and Method" creative challenge have issued another prompt. This time the topic is "March".

This track was built with two samples from my personal collection of field recordings. The 4-beat rhythm loop is the percussion section of the Shawnee Mission North High School marching band, recorded at the Overland Park Fall Festival in 2011. The horn sound is an air horn on an antique steam tractor, recorded at the Northwest Michigan Engine and Thresher Show, Buckley, Michigan way back in 1989 and played back through a keyboard sampler.

The Marty Street Hi-Steppin' Boogie

Well I watched (not even played along with) half a video about Bill Broonzy’s playing style and now I’m an expert on single bass note blues...hmmm…well this is what came to my fingers this morning when I picked up my guitar and I liked it so I thought I’d record it and upload it. Some less then precise playing going on but that’s part of the fun (that’s my excuse). Just added a little reverb (was tempted to add vinyl noises and filters).

Music by Matthew Naylor.


May I Have The Blues (demo)

with some local friends :)
andrew salvner (lil' spaceman) bass guitar
casey denno guitar
adam weiler drums
adam lupo guitar
artwork by daughter riley/iboyte

the sea of the lords

https://soundcloud.com/plex-auchta - bass guitar and drums
lil' spaceman - beatbox and vocals

susie's got an uzi

Dean Town (Vulfpeck Cover)

A very old friend passed me this beautiful guitar and I promised I would send him a tune on it, so here it is, written this morning in between gardening, then recorded just now xx

Path Of My Sweet Love

Here's a wee tune I just did in the moment whilst watching the match on the red Hofner 1960 body with the 2024 Kirtley neckband a Charlie Christian style floating pickup, one take made up in the moment, best way xx

Trickin' Pickin' Chickin'

Borrow or Rob

Fake Palindromes (Orchestral Version)

acoustic guitar, blues feeling, foot tapping included.

Attic foot tapping blues

The title is a reference to "Spanish Two Step" by John Fahey. Hopefully it makes you want to jig a little.

Music by Matthew Naylor.

English Two Step [Solo Acoustic Guitar]

Inspired by today (19th March 2013) being the last day of winter (as long as you live in the Northern Hemisphere). It is improvised so there are a few less than clean notes here and there which I hope you will forgive. I feel it sounds both hopeful for the coming spring and is reflective for the winter just finishing. 

In style I’d say more John Renbourn than John Fahey.

Written and recorded on the last day of winter 2013.

Music by Matthew Naylor


Last day of winter [Solo Acoustic Guitar]

For some time I have been working on a collection of acoustic guitar instrumentals which I’m calling “No stars on our flag”. English two step (https://soundcloud.com/foxasrabbit/english-two-step) is the first one I uploaded and this is the second one (https://soundcloud.com/foxasrabbit/last-day-of-winter being spontaneous doesn’t count). The idea behind them is to blend the American style of say John Fahey with the British style of the likes of Davey Graham. I know this isn’t new territory for the world (especially as the British folk revivalist where incorporating American influences anyway) but it’s new for me.

The title accidently comes from a Shakespeare play (Cymbeline Act IV, Scene 2):
  Arviragus. [To IMOGEN]. 
   Brother, stay here 
   Are we not brothers?
 Imogen. 
   So man and man should be;
   But clay and clay differs in dignity, 
   Whose dust is both alike. I am very sick.

Anyway enough rambling hope you enjoy listening to it.

Music by Matthew Naylor.

Are we not brothers? [Solo Acoustic Guitar]

Thank you for listening.

“A fox came as a rabbit, then a rabbit came as a fox” and with these words short-sighted Jay Eff became invisible. It was not out of the blue he had been studying the work of early ones who left marks in the air. And now here comes someone who doesn't know the marks of all the early ones but with a wooden box in hand he has come to make marks in the air. Wish him luck good people of the world, we all need a little luck sometimes.

May I Have The Blues (demo)

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