Music samples for original band
These are the songs I want to work on more and do for the screaming fans. Email me if you like them and would like to help me write/play them. I will need a bass, drums and either a keyboard or guitar player. I sing and play guitar, and this is all me on these recordings, except "O for Tuna," on which my cat and the neighbor's dog did the vocals. If you sing that's preferable. If you know what a whole-tone scale is already, that's even better! I try not to stick to one genre, as you might be able to tell here.
I did this one when I was kind of mad. It is an experiment with whole-tone scales that makes an interesting song. A lot more can be done with this.
Disconnected
This one includes social commentary and a great drumbeat ( I think ). How easy is that for a real drummer?
Lowest Common Denominator
This is a morbid country/alt-country-bluegrass song
Bride of Frankenstein
A jazz fusion type song. I may put some vocals to it too. It's called "Slip and Slide," because the tonal center seems to slide around in the beginning. Funny, huh?
Slip and Slide
This is a good example of what my voice sounds like.
Cat Soul
Here are some other things I have done. They are not all necessarily to be done in a rock band, but they give you an idea of what my idea of music is.
Here is a movement from the Carl Orff piece, Carmina Burana, arranged for cats and dogs
O for Tuna
Here is my newest song (January 11, 2007) It expresses my feelings about our bad attitude towards food, especially in the US.
Food Is Your Friend
This is what I submitted for the theme song contest for the WHRO talk radio show "Hearsay."
Hearsay THeme
A computer music piece that uses me singing an Anglican chant and doing my best Tibetan monk imitation as its main material:
Refuge
Watch out Eminem, here I come! This is my first rap recording called
Everybody Doin' It
Here is "The Bulldog Song," probably the funniest of my songs to date
The Bulldog Song
This is a real crowd pleaser for those who are connoisseurs of both Eminem and Verdi. Here we have a harmonious fusion of two great genres of music. This work was conceived after the distinguished maestro Walter Atanasi explained that Verdi was really a rap artist. The maestro may have been joking, but this jam proves that Verdi's rhymes ain't no joke.
Il Maledetto
This piece is a tribute to the fifth todi festival opera. I am very proud to say I was a part of this production and shared the stage with such talented people. To show my pride and gratitude for the opportunity, I made a hip-hop version of one of the choruses, complete with some impersonations of some of the people who work hard to make the Todi festival come together.
Rataplan
This is a minimalist piece I made by writing a program in Java that creates every possible scale. In this case, a scale can be either one note per octave at the least to a full twelve not chromatic scale at the other extreme.
All Possibilities
This is another minimalist piece created the same way, but this one is just pentatonic scales. Over 100 different combinations of five notes to the octave. Some of it sounds pretty good.
Pentaminimal
For guitarists only
Here is a transcription and tab of Creed's "One Last Breath" in PDF form. It goes up until the loud part. I would almost bet my life on its accuracy. The only iffy part is the last chord
One Last Breath
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Here is a word document I did that has a VB macro in it that you can use to unscramble word jumbles. Don't ask me why I did this. I guess I just wanted to impress the hot chicks. I can also do the word jumble puzzles in the paper in less than 5 minutes. Wrowr!
Super Unscramble
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