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Waltz for Accordion and Glockenspiel #2

John Tynan — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:34:04 +0000

My Accordion and Me (2), originally uploaded by johntynan.

I’ve taken a few moments to record another musical idea for the accordion and glockenspiel. This one is inspired by Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel as well as by a visit from my good friend Todd.

Have a listen using this link or using the player below.

First Waltz with Glockenspiel

John Tynan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:28:45 +0000

My Accordion and Me, originally uploaded by johntynan.

Today I created my first waltz for Accordion and Glockenspiel. I had the sound in my head all morning, and I’m grateful to Rene for helping me have the time to record it.

Have a listen using this link or the player below:

Been a while…

toddmainey — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:49:32 +0000

Greeting Gents… It’s been a while since I’ve spoken to, or even heard from most of you. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, eh?

Where in the heck is everyone? I’ve been in Montana for coming about 8.5 years now, Phoenix for 3 before that, Charlotte, North Carolina for 1 year before that, and Austin Texas for 5 years prior to that. I suppose there was the 9 years in Rochester NY too, but that was college so I’m not sure that counts. Anyway, it’s nice to see you guys are still in touch and passing music around.

I bought my daughter (who plays piano) an EMU 1616 midi station a couple years ago and she’s never really taken to it, so I grabbed it a couple months ago and have been trying to learn how to use Sonar LE. With Todd’s help I’ve managed to learn the basics, although I still suffer from terrible musicianship. Anyway, I decided to build a bass (picture enclosed) and start recording some ideas to learn how this whole thing goes together. I’m using the percussion from my daughters Suzuki SP-27 practice keyboard until I figure out the drum kits in Sonar. Anyway, here’s a few bars I put together just for grins… Maybe someone will venture forth and record something good over it and send it back.

Regards to all and let me know what and how you’re doing this decade… Kevin

My father’s lederhosen
Fat men in gum-soled shoes are creeping around in the basement
driving beets

Manoog’s and Todd’s Summer 09 Session

toddmainey — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:52:17 +0000

When Im With You 2

Can’t explain how this song ends up sounding like 70’s southern rock. Neither of us was greatly influenced by this genre in this decade.

“Circus in my mind… I’m a clown I’m a fool… Tight rope walker kicks me from behind” Great line!

Hey Manoog, I took the liberty of adding some energetic female vocals to back you up in the chorus parts.
She sounds a little smarter than you (snicker) which is interesting because these tracks were created from
your vocal tracks, all voice inflection is you raised an octave. This is the same trick I used in John’s
“Down On Weighted Knees” using the Roland V-Vocal plug-in.
The drums get a bit exuberant in the last chorus. For example, you hear a snare, two toms, and a hi-hat
all at the same time. Your average two handed drummer might consider this bad taste.

We had a great night of recording and it was a lot of fun getting these tracks down. Let’s do it again soon! All comments welcome… Todd

My friend Adam wrote the song in the late 1980’s. We played and recorded various versions of it during the early 1990’s. My arrangement is somewhat true to the original, but certainly more modernized and richer in acoustic instrumentation in this version. We had a lot of fun recording it at your house! Thanks for all the work on this! I will listen to it now. Manoog

When Im With You
When Im with You 2 [Squeaky Clean remix]

New Song Fragment: Weaving

John Tynan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:23:49 +0000

In between watching the roller coaster of the Cardinals game, I had an
idea of this descending chromatic melody and tried to work it into a
song. I call it “Weaving”.

I’ve submitted this to some musician friends for review. I’ll likely come back to this song and fine tune it further. But I thought I would post it here for posterity’s sake. Enjoy!

weaving_mix_0708_01

Down on Weighted Knees – Todd’s Mix

John Tynan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:34:44 +0000

I handed off the song, Down on Weighted Knees (from my last post “A New, Old Song Done Differently“) to Todd. I was so amazed at the beauty that he coaxed out of the song and the celebratory tone he created towards the end that I almost cried.

You can hear his mix of the tune here.

Sittin’ On Top of the World

manooghadeshian — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:20:09 +0000

Here’s a blues ditty. I was humming it after a close brush with the Sarah Palin disaster (…now she’s gone and I don’t worry….). Ron sings it well, and Ithink the sound quality is really nice on this one. I recorded things low on the meters to avoid any clipping. Check it out!sittin-on-top-of-the-world.

A New, Old Song Done Differently

John Tynan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:45:07 +0000

Here’s a new, old song done differently: Down on Weighted Knees. It’s based on a poem that I wrote back in the ’90’s. I want to release it under Creative Commons in such a way that it promotes collaboration. We’ll see how that goes. Here’s the first mix. No reverb. It may even be mono. But there’s an idea there. Partly inspired by the tempo of a Leonard Cohen song that I was reminded of by the folks at NPR’s All Songs Considered, partly inspired by the music of Beach House. Partly inspired by the lyrics. Hope you like it!

Superstition Blues

John Tynan — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:50:06 +0000

I recently got together with my friend Howard and we put together this blues. It’s the first real song that I’ve put together using the BR864. I may re-take the accordion part, but as a proof of concept, I’d say it’s pretty good! The lyrics were lifted, real quick, at the last minute from a book on the blues. I’m thinking that they’ve fallen into the public domain.

Have a listen, and let me know what you think.

Thanks Howard, for all your help!

Someday You’ll Find it Easy

John Tynan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:53:57 +0000

Before heading out to Marseille for the past two weeks, I got together with my friend Walt Lockley to make some music. While I was working on a mix of a different song, Walt wrote the lyrics to the song “Someday You’ll Find it Easy”.

This morning, during a cold-induced bout of insomnia I decided to put the words to music and record it. You may notice I’m using the same chords as “First Kiss”. Given this mother of all sore throats – and the meds I’m on to combat this thing – I kind of floated through this one.

Have a listen. Hope you like it!