This is so cool! Such an amazing song. The bassline is really cool. Great work my friend.

This is the full band arrangement of this song (although all the instruments apart from the Mike Leander inpsired drum loop are me).

I have also uploaded a more typical acoustic version similar to how I play it live.

Dancing In The Rain (Full Band Version)

Song with the "Purdie Shuffle" groove I have always wanted to use.

Back To Bed

Circe Sketch {rough as a cows backside}

This is a song based on the drum part of Stevie Wonder's Superstition.   It continues a theme running through a lot of my songs detailing how clumsy I am

Uncoordinated

Hope

Requiem Loop

This is very old song based on a science fiction story I intended to write about a dystopian future where all music is generated by machines until one day our hero does some historical research and creates an acoustic musical instrument.   I wrote the song but didn't get around to the story.

Song In The Machine

A song about a bad breakup with the title stolen from my favourite John Buchan novel.

Based around a Stewart Copeland-inspired drum part it's in the style of late 70's Rock-Reggae which I think perfectly complements the bitter lyrics.

39 Steps

Most of this song is based around a simple four chord pattern.  It describes the intangible nature of inspiration as "white noise" on our creative conciousness

Studio Stuff

White Noise

This song was written for the Songspark Songwriting group. For more info on Song Spark, visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/songsparkcc/about/

The April prompt, in honor of April Fools' Day, was to write a song that includes a twist or a surprise.  This song - is a riddle!  Can you figure it out?  :)

This song was written and recorded using a Behringer X2222 stereo USB mixer and Apple Camera Connection kit (for the drums), iPad, iRig PRO I/O, Marshall MXL 770 condenser microphone, Yamaha maple custom drum set, Ibanez bass guitar, Washburn acoustic guitar, Yamaha glockenspiel, West Music kazoo, and several percussion instruments, all via iOS GarageBand.

Special thanks to John Kehl https://soundcloud.com/yokeofegg and Josh Wien https://soundcloud.com/josh-wien for playing some AMAZING solo guitar on this song!  

Below are the lyrics:
I am evermore
Still I’m not enough
You can’t get enough of me
I show up everyday
Then I slip away
Like a faded dream
You can use, you abuse
I’m still the one you need 
I am evermore
Still I’m not enough
Never quite enough of me

I’d like to play a game
Can you guess my name?
I promise to give clues
Though they may confuse you
I’m more precious than gold
I can’t be bought or sold
Can’t be earned or saved
You spend me anyway

Harvester of rage
I consume your age
Newborn in my arms
Hourglass and scythe
Both can take a life
And can leave you scarred
Multiply, I can fly
Though I don’t have wings
Stronger than a king
I control all things
Ruling from beyond

I’d like to play a game
Can you guess my name?
I promise to give clues
Though they may confuse you
I’m more precious than gold
I can’t be bought or sold
Can’t be earned or saved
You spend me anyway

I can be a friend
And an enemy
Your first enemy, a prime 
To fight me is a sin
You know I always win
I sentence every crime
I can heal all wounds I’m real
I’m harmless, but I kill
Can you win the game?
Do you know my name?
Guess you’re out of…

Enigma

This song was written for the Songspark Songwriting group. For more info on Song Spark, visit www.facebook.com/groups/songsparkcc/about/

The September Song Spark was to write a song with a minimalist theme. Simplify your approach by limiting your selection of notes, chords, rhythms, instruments, etc. Try to get the biggest impact and best possible result, with the fewest parts necessary.

“The Least I Can Do” is a song I wrote about the difficulty in saying goodbye.  If you have to say goodbye to someone you care about, or something you enjoy doing, how would you do it?  What would you say? 

#songsparkseptember2018

This song was written and recorded using a Behringer X2222 stereo USB mixer and Apple Camera Connection kit (for the drums), iPad mini4, iRig PRO I/O, Marshall MXL 770 condenser microphone, Yamaha maple custom drum set, Ibanez bass guitar, Washburn acoustic guitar, Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, and a Fender Squire Strat, via iOS and Mac GarageBand.

Below are the lyrics:
INTRO
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you

V1
Gentle breeze, memories fill my mind
Reverie, tenderly say goodbye

PC1
No need to explain
Take yourself out of the game

V2
Humble pride, set aside photographs
Conscience clear, forty years, I pause and laugh

PC2
How long have you been away?
Sacrifices were made

C1
If by some rare circumstance
We meet by sheer happenstance
I’d smile and say “thanks,”
That’s what I’d say to you
It’s the least I can do

SOLO

V3
Quietly, wistfully comes the end 
Recognize the little time we have left

PC3
We look to the star
Learn to love from afar

C2
If by some rare circumstance
We meet by sheer happenstance
I’d smile and say “thanks,”
That’s what I’d say to you
It’s the least I can do

OUTRO
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you

The Least I Can Do

Chicago-area music teacher and member of the Song Spark songwriting group. This account is to be used solely for publishing song demos and other music studio related content.

Enigma

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