Totally amateur recordings thread

[Michael Stanley 2112]

Last week, a friend of mine and I were talking about structures of songs (I'm teaching him the bass) and he put a real bee in my bonnet. He kind of offhandedly said: "Do you know you can sing 'Amazing Grace' to the tune of 'The House of the Rising Sun'?"

Son of a ...!

Obviously, I'd catch all kinds of garbage on this site, if I posted "Amazing Grace" here. So, when I got done with that, I just sang the "correct" lyrics over the same recording.

Here it is:

 

[FilterFunk]

"Do you know you can sing 'Amazing Grace' to the tune of 'The House of the Rising Sun'?"

I sing several songs a cappella every day to keep my voice strong and well-tuned. I am so adding this to my repertoire!

 

[Michael Stanley 2112]

I sing several songs a cappella every day to keep my voice strong and well-tuned. I am so adding this to my repertoire!

I've always loved the song. I believe it flows, beautifully.

 

[FilterFunk]

I've always loved the song. I believe it flows, beautifully.

I did the mash-up in my head, and it's easy to hear how it fits.

 

[lunarpollen]

My second attempt at mixing down a tune from raw tracks.... (see post #828 above for the backstory)... Same bass used as last time (Harmony H22)... This time a Strangeloves' cover...

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[FilterFunk]

I never could decide on a permanent title for this little jam, so I'm just gonna call it "One Minute of Funk."

 

[lunarpollen]

A couple of really crappy phone recordings from practice this evening with the garage rock cover band, recorded using the video camera feature in my BlackBerry phone... The two newest additions to our list of covers...

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[Michael Stanley 2112]

Hot off the presses:

(Calling) Dr. Love - 2023 - The Michael Stanley Group

 

[lunarpollen]

NOT another crappy phone recording... This one is my third result of experimenting with mixing tracks for demo purposes (see post #828 above for the backstory)... Bass was a Harmony H22 again. The Sonics did the most well-known version of this tune.

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[scott sinner]

Recorded in home studio. Well, it is a pretty nice home studio now. But my shadow puppetry and video skills are super amateur.

 

[Michael Stanley 2112]

I don't have a volume control on the media player which pops up, here.

So, I greatly reduced the volume on this one to see if it's a little bit more bearable. Enjoy (I hope)!

It worked!!!

 

[The Owl]

Something in progress, a ditty about incurable snobs that obsess over pointless minutiae. A scratch vocal on the chorus so far, Still trying to figure out vocal parts for the verses.

Minutiae clip.mp3

 

[FilterFunk]

I wrote this song way back in the late-'80s about walking my Husky, Atu (pictured in the SoundCloud link). I recorded this version a few years ago. I call it "Walk My Dog." BTW, that's not Atu's bark you're hearing; I sampled it from a sound effects CD.

 

[The Owl]

One of the first things I concocted under the Talk To Bears banner

 

[The Owl]

A more complete version of "Minutiae". May start mixing this week.

 

[Michael Stanley 2112]

War Machine 2023

 

[bholder]

Caught in a riff of my own making, from which there is no escaping. 'scuse the sloppiness, haven't been practicing, especially not on the 8!

 

[FilterFunk]

Caught in a riff of my own making, from which there is no escaping. 'scuse the sloppiness, haven't been practicing, especially not on the 8!

I like the riff and the tone.

 

[FilterFunk]

I recorded this version of "Happy Birthday" for a very dear friend and co-worker back in the '90s.
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[Joe Nerve]

This is a little piece of an entire show I wrote and recorded on a tiny plastic sequencer, with a Kawai K4 synth when I was in college. I was fortunate to get the college's support into presenting it in the school's theater. Dancers are from Brooklyn College. I have a few other clips, but I always liked this song and arrangement the best.

Its being played off a casette tape for the performance .

It was based on the Gulf War.