I’ve heard this song a million times. It’s of course the Beatles from Let It Be. I once rented the movie when I was in middle school but haven’t seen it in years. Somehow a new song I’ve been writing has a bit of this vibe and I found myself humming the [...]

I decided to change things up a bit this week. I am waiting on new music softwares and new headphones (to replace ones I left on airplane) so I thought I’d try to do something all MIDI before I go back to past works. This song may or may not fit with the [...]

This has been a rough year in some respects. We have lost some greats: from Kansas City heroes Buck O’Neil, Jay McShann and Lamar Hunt, to film legend Robert Altman. All have played their importance in some way and transcended into icons. So I am saddened to find out that we have [...]

Here’s an update to my song from last week. It’s still electronic. It still has the Circuit Dialogue patch. It still has somewhat of a postal servicey feel. I decided to worry about those textural issues at a later date and just work towards completing a song with real live verses and choruses- imagine that!!!!
Needless [...]

I came across this great article on Pop Matters that analyzes the holiday classic A Charlie Brown Christmas. Here Will Layman talks about the soundtrack’s origins and success, including my own favourite, “Christmastime Is Here.” He even contends that it is the most well known and universally loved jazz albums ever. And I [...]

Not headed home for holiday time this year due to work which isn’t so bad except for one thing: Christmas time can be pretty quiet and dull when most people leave town or spend time with their families.  So while watching an SNL rerun from last year, just saw this pretty great TV Funhouse song:  [...]

So here it is. The list. Well at least the list as it was cobbled together with twine, duct tape and ample amounts of chewing gum. I am pretty confident that these few were my favourite albums this year and while glancing over I realize there are few obscure picks here, it was [...]

Here is my entrance fee for round one of hello.music. It’s a couple midi things, a bass line, and the beginnings of a vocal line. A few musings:

Need to stop using the “Circuit Dialog” synth because it’s featured in just about everything I do in GarageBand
The chorus needs retooling because I want the line “a [...]

This is my entrance to this weeks hello.songs . Oxygen One is the very first thing I created after purchasing an Oxygen midi keyboard, so I think its fitting as my first submission into the world of the internets.
Oxygen One

So the idea here was to see what I could make my [...]

About two months ago, I came up with this shell of a song but have been stuck since then trying to figure out a good structure to lengthen it to normal song length. Its running a bit short now.
Here is I Am the King of Sad Retorts

This song feels overly Ben Gibbardy and I [...]