[SaW34] – Dre Ain’t Got **** on Me
Thursday, August 27th, 2009This is my attempt to dig down into my R&B/Hip Hop roots. (Yeah, a white boy can have Hip Hop roots!) I was kinda using Dr. Dre’s slow jam beats as inspiration. How’d I do?
Archive for August, 2009
Song-a-Week #33 – Les
Thursday, August 20th, 2009This is for Les Paul. It was improvised and recorded in one pass. Sure, there are plenty of “mistakes” in there… but I think that’s the whole point.
Les Paul (6/9/1915 – 8/13/2009)
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Les Paul, the man who pioneered the solid-body electric guitar, effects including tape delay and phasing, and multitrack recording… is gone.
Rock and Roll would not exist without you, sir. Rest in Peace.
Song-a-Week #32 – My Brain
Thursday, August 13th, 2009This week, I decided to try something different. Indaba Music is running a contest wherein entrants are asked to remix the Weezer song “My Brain (Is Working Overtime).” I thought I’d take a shot at goofing around with it, and this is what happened. I figure, how much more different from the [...]
Song-a-Week #31 – FML
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009Here ya go, Ren. Be nice.
The main guitar and vocals were recorded simultaneously. Yes, that means I played and sang at the same time. There was really no other way to do it if I wanted the song to breathe and flow as it did.
Thanks, Bob. Please don’t sue [...]
