A track I wrote for my daughter to use in a media assignment.

20150531

I just realised that I forgot to post this one – which is a pity, because it’s definitely one of my better attempts.
I’m particularly happy with the guitar – it’s probably the first piece I’ve done where I actually feel like a guitarist.
It was very much written around the guitar theme, though the rest of the instruments are what ended up setting the tone.
I’m very happy with the Sax solo too – it’s not too derivative, and fits the mood of the piece perfectly. It’s very good to be able to include sax in my music again.
The lyrics as usual don’t have a whole lot of meaning in them – I just try words that seem to fit, and then find a way to link them up.

I need to practice singing more, and stop relying on V-Vocal. I should probably make a resolution to never use it again – at least for whole track pitch correction. Fixing a timing issue here and there isn’t so bad.

20100308

This piece is a quick improvisation using my new Ibanez Talman electric acoustic guitar. It’s based around the chord pattern on the acoustic, which just came from messing around. Overall it’s a bit rough, as it’s been a long time since I’ve done any recording. In particular I’ve pretty much forgotten how to do solos. But there is a part about 2/3rds of the way through that I really like.
Due to lack of inspiration I had to fade it, but still, better something than nothing.

20110313

One guitar and two tracks, only a couple of takes. Not sure if it's Barrett or Reznor inspired. It's not very long, but it's more than I've done in the last year or so...

20120430

Just a rough improvisation using two tracks, recorded with Audio Evolution for Android.
It stops abruptly at the end because I decided I'd done enough, and I couldn't find any Android tools that would allow me to fade it out.  (At least, not ones that didn't market themselves as ringtone editors).

There was no re-recording or anything, so the solo is raw and full of mistakes, but that wasn't really the point...


Stuart Herring