Here is a song I have been working on this past week. It’s a different style from the music I usually write, more of a rock-ballad and more radio-friendly than the majority of what I have previously written. It actually started with the bass riffs and the rest of the song came together quite quickly in GarageBand. I got everything arranged approximately how I wanted it then imported the...
Read MoreIn the process of creating this site I have been digging through old backups of recordings. In this task I have found a version of “Twitch” that appeared on some versions of the 2006 Demo disc. I have also found an ultra-rare recording of a song called “Super Cool” that I wrote as a teenager. This version was a set of guide tracks recorded in 2005 with space for a guitar...
Read MoreWelcome to my website of music demos. This post is a bit about me, and my musical point of view, and what this site is about. I am a mostly self-taught musician. I spent many of my early years playing brass in public school bands but never found that it afforded me much opportunity for self-expression. In that capacity I have played many small and large venues across the city of Ottawa, and even...
Read MoreAn old synth track I wrote, one of my first, originally recorded on a Korg X5 in the ’90s. It’s hard with just an archived MIDI file to capture the original sound without a copy of an old sequencer program called ‘Trakx’ and an X5, however I have re-vamped it in LogicPro 9 and tried to re-create some of the sounds. For some reason this was called ‘Fire’ and...
Read MoreIt’s Friday, and was playing around some more with GarageBand and my bass guitar. Came up with a funky little loop. Title Other Versions
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