Last night Jimmy Fallon and Billy Joel used this awesome app to do this song live.  Because I really like the app and really like Billy Joel here is my attempt...

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Met some fellow software engineers for lunch today and on the drive back, started thinking up some corny lyrics for an original song.  Building on a great backing track I found on YouTube from RandomJammer that he simply called "Fast Blues Shuffle Backing Track in G 152bpm."  That track has piano, bass, drums.   The lead guitar, vocals, scat, and corny words are mine all tossed together quickly in Garage Band.

Lyrics:

Sit’n in the trenches and set’n up to write some code (some code)
An instant message comes in, a bunch of change come in (so I’m told)
We don’t miss a step. We’re ready, even when the change is heavy 

Objective-C and Java are some tools that we just gotta
            Use for you, You Know it’s true
If these skills you cannot find, just hire us… we’ll blow your mind!

A little song for programmers

Hacked together a quick cover of the first verse of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Simple Man

Simple Man

First attempt to use Garage Band - so very rough guitar jam

First song with Garage Band in 2009

Rough cuts from 2010 where I was playing around Garage Band to experiment with what I could do with recording guitar, keyboards, etc.  These are original jams.

Sky Song - original instrumental

Gritty Pancakes (original instrumental - from 2010)

Rotting Spinach (rough cuts - original instrumental - 2010)

Another short and crazy original this time drop-d riffing with the Line 6 Spinal Puppet model and my Les Paul Studio cranked up.  Yeah baby!  Just a silly, over the top, stupid metal song.  Hope you like it!

When your going into town, eat some cereal and crunch it down!

Cerial Killer

Here is an experiment from a few years ago.  A friend gave me a sheet music version of the Glee version for Journey's classic, Don't Stop Believin.  I decided to try and record each vocal part in Garage Band.  I never finished the whole song but here is the beginning.

Don'tStopBelievin

Another one for the list of projects started but not finished. In 2012, I decided to try and sing and record all the vocal parts to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. I got thru the intro and then added my rough approximation of the piano part and then added the lead vocal part thru the first couple verses. Hope to finish this some day, but for now sharing what I have done to this point.

Bohemian Rhapsody Cover (intro - piano and vocals)

Just your basic software developer geek who also plays music.  I play guitar, piano, bass, sing, etc...  I write iOS apps.

Jeremy Black Frog