Acoustic With Style

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (LIVE COVER)

A cover of Mark Knopfler's 'Piper To The End' by Tom Mitchell.

http://www.facebook.com/tommitchmusic

Piper To The End (Mark Knopfler)

Where has it gone to,
this comfort that we are looking for
Where has it gone to,
did it go where we can't follow?

So here I've been sitting, thinking: 
everything will gladly come to me
But where will that take me,
will I go where you can't follow?

Now where are you hinding,
under pillows and a blanket,
Under the stars, say:
where are you hiding,
did you go where I can't find you?

I wish that I could find you here,
so we wouldn't be alone ...

Again, alone

Guitar song

Lion Heart

World Gone Bad - Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj

I was born downtown on a bed of rats
From a dirty faced kid to a mean ol’ cat
Mama said son you look just like your dad
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad

Don’t wanna go where I don’t want to be
Don’t want to say what I don’t really mean
What a lowdown rotten life I had
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad

Gonna pull up my boots
Pick up my cane
Put on my hat
Get on the road again
Hit that trail before the break of dawn
You can wait all you want but baby I’ll be gone

Some get their kicks in the back of a hearse
Some drink blood just to quench their thirst
Me I’m on the edge going mad
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad 


World Gone Bad

Little guitar improvisation - Hope you enjoy it.. :-)
Guitar in "celtic" tuning (Ovation)


Cloudwaves by Khay

FINGERSTYLE BLUES IN A Op.2

Prisoner Of The Road (Cover)

A love song in the singer songwriter / folk genre. Enjoy all and thank you much for listening and commenting. Much appreciated...

Live recording, vocals & guitar & 2 mics
  
Peace
Mike


The girl with the flowers
Is slowing the hours
By offering her grace
With a smile

It seems not substantial
Still feeds my essential
Dwelling in my heart 
For a while

She asks without saying
Inviting me, playing
By offering me
Colors and shine

The girl with the flowers
She slows down the hours
Gently make me
Feel fine

I could easily embrace
Her flowers, her face
And wipe every trace
Of my pace

I bought all of the daisies
From this lovely lady
We dwelled in our hearts
For a while

The girl with the flowers
Is slowing the hours
By offering her grace
With a smile

It seems not substantial
Still feeds my essential
By dwelling my heart 
For a while

For guitarists: the chords are played with only a shifting E-chord with open 1st and 2nd high strings  (note: hE = high open E, 1 octave up)

hE – D – A – G – A  (all with open low E string) 
hE – D – A - G

G – A – hE – A   (all with own bass line)

A - B – hE – A    (all with own bass line)
G – A – hE – D  (all with own bass line)

C – D – hE – C  (all with own bass line)

 G-A-C-hE                   (all 3x with open low E string) 

(low)E – D – A – G – A       (open low E string)] 
hE – D – A – G – A    (open low E - all 2x)

hE –D –C – G – A  - hE

The Girl With The Flowers

www.davidmeulen.com

The Midnight Abyss was recorded live in studio, late one Cape Town night in 2013 at Heritage Sound Studio. Preceding the reprise on the album, it is the last full song in the tracklist.

"@davidmeulen" released 24 April 2014 and is available on iTunes world wide. 
Download now here!
itunes.apple.com/album/id858136774

Music & Lyrics by David Meulen
Lyrics co-written by Jessi Howell

Artists featuring in  The Midnight Abyss:
Guitar & vocal - David Meulen
Piano - Evelyn Hart

Engineer/Producer - Brendyn 'Rusti' Rossouw
Mixing Engineer - Neal Snyman
Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound, New York

Cover photo and design - Laura McCullagh
Illustrations drawn by Jessi Howell

Buy on iTunes

The Midnight Abyss

The Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNHO8pw86fQ

Produced by @emotionordie 

This is the first completely (music and lyrics) original song I have uploaded here on Soundcloud: I did the singing and the guitar playing, but the production and lead guitars are all by my friend Jason, alias EmotionorDie, a greatly talented singer, songwriter and (in this case) producer. Thanks to him for the BIG help, and to everyone who listened to my songs: 60000 plays is a huge, huge number :)

Here are the lyrics:

It's dark inside, tires screeching on the concrete, the only sound, 
that's joining me, in the chilly silence, I'm wrapped around.
Outside it's almost dawn, the door just slammed and she was gone
Outside it's almost dawn, the door just slammed and she was gone

And I was torn apart, and I was tore apart from you,
And I was torn apart, and I was tore apart from you

She's running down, stumbling in her suitcase, a taxi on the 
road is waiting for her, with his useless, glowing sign,
cause is the only light, that is gleaming on tonight, 
cause is the only light, that is gleaming on tonight

And I was torn apart, and I was tore apart from you,
And I was torn apart, and I was tore apart from you

She stepped inside, just staring down and crying, without a sound,
she whispered, then, and words were just blades flying, against my soul  
“the message on your phone ... it was lying on the floor ...
just cheating  in cold blood ...  you were lying all along” 

And I was torn apart, and I was tore apart from you,
And I was torn apart, and I was tore apart from you

Watch the Video Here

Love in Reverse

Another collab with my friend Jason https://soundcloud.com/emotionordie : this time we adapted Blame by Calvin Harris to an acoustic version. The lead guitar are all by Jason, that has graced my bare-bones version of the song. Hope you enjoy ;) !

Calvin Harris - Blame - Cover (collab with Jason McCann, acoustic version)

Written and self-recorded in 2015 by Brad Wilson (Guitarist).
Denver, CO. Art credit: Charmaine Gurule

Ouachita

Black Moon - Julia Westlin

Julia Westlin - Fucking Lie

another version of wicked games.this version worths listening.

Gemma Hayes - Wicked Game

Now I Have You - Guitar Instrumental

Just 2 Acoustic guitars and my voice... and a little bit of keyboards behind. Hope you like it!

You Were Right

Sinatic:
https://www.facebook.com/sinaticmusic
https://soundcloud.com/sinatic

Lyrics:

In the prairie of a rose
You've got time to wonder
How your heart could never know
Just what you needed
And it's fair, I suppose
For the soul to be excluded
Feel apart and stand alone
Just like you're used to

Hunt me down and bring me closer
Drag me up and stare me down
Find the source of my defences
Lock me in as is

Finally -

Finally, the air is thicker and it lingers here for a second extra
Finally, the air is thicker when it comes
Finally, a sense of bravery escapes the lungs and it dances with me
Finally -

"You've tot it easy with the time you waste
Seems you're running from the system or you're saving face
Are you really moving on or are you moving away
You'd better tell us what you've always really wanted to say."
Every minute I've avoided you
I've been closer to the earth and how it heals and soothes
My triggers and my hurt are on the ocean floor
Once you get it, it won't be what you're looking for.

Something feels a little old
Just a little too familiar
Like I've done this all before, or read the story
And it's fair, I suppose,
To dismiss it, obtrusive
Feel apart and not at home
Just like I'm used to.

Finally, the air is thicker and it lingers here for a second extra
Finally, the air is thicker when it comes
Finally, a sense of bravery escapes the lungs and it dances with me

Finally forever blue.

Sinatic ft Veela - Forever Blue [FREE DOWNLOAD]

I love the blues and became determined to learn to play when I found my beautiful Eastman archtop guitar up for sale, second hand for a bargain price, in Jan 2012. As soon as I touched it I fell in love.

I first tried playing guitar several decades ago: with unrealistic teenaged enthusiasm I fully expected to sound like Hendrix within a month or two while practising just thirty minutes a week. I gave up when I still struggled to tune my guitar and the cowboy chords I'd learnt sounded really rough when I literally banged on them. Girls were much more interesting.

In my late thirties I had a mid-life crisis(!), so I  bought a US Strat and a Gibson LP Pro, determined to learn to be an ageing 'bedroom rock star'. I was working long and hard hours so only practised on odd weekends, always wondering why following tab and listening to CD lessons was not working. I decided I was tone deaf and incompetent, so yet again, I gave up, still unable to master bar chords, convinced I would never be able to play.

As an early retiree, I decided to give it a final attempt when I found my black beauty: the first few years were a journey of discovery, discipline and sore fingers. I practised most days (except when arthritis in my joints and a trapped nerve in my shoulder 'froze' my fretting pinkie and sent my thumb totally numb). Back then, I trawled YouTube and bought a DVD course of lessons, and plugged away. It was worth it as I really enjoyed the fairly limited range of things I could play.

When I first arrived on Soundcloud, I was not expecting to find such a talented and helpful community. I just wanted to upload a jam track for my friends to hear, then I found the amazing wealth of creativity here. 

Sadly, my frozen shoulder, trapped nerve and related problems have pretty much stopped my guitar ambitions since 2016.

However, I still have a blast exploring all the fabulous originals and covers so many relatively unknown, but hugely talented, musicians have conjured up for the SC community. In my first five weeks on here I downloaded c100 tracks and 'liked' hundreds more, and since then I have created many playlists that I regularly listen to depending on my mood...

Simon Cowell and his ilk (overpaid gatekeepers/brand creators/ubercapitalists) have, until now, throttled mass talent for the sake of creating a relative handful of extremely wealthy 'cash cow' celebs.

Who needs these supposedly 'professional talent spotters' and their artificially enhanced 'celebrities'? The internet rocks!

NB If you too suffer from joint pain, RSI or trapped nerves I highly recommend this free DIY pain relief site: it is not just for guitar related injuries but pain anywhere in the body pretty much, and the techniques used really do work - although for me, they provide just temporary relief. Good luck!

Acoustic With Style

Will Patching