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Musician, Artist, Writer
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This Is What The First Nugget of A Song Sounds Like
Songs can come out anywhere, anytime. I think they gestate inside of me for a while until they find the right time and way to come out. I wrote this bass line while I was on the floor of Bass Player Live out in Los Angeles in October. I was fiddling with the new Source Audio Programmable EQ and apparently thinking about The Who. Some of the musical motifs in it have definitely been trying to fight their way into existing songs but not quite fitting.
I’m not sure where this one is going to go, but I love how it sounds. For the time being, I’ll be listening to it and writing melodies on top of it. Since I’ve got the blog rolling again, I thought it would be pretty cool to share this one with you right from the absolute beginning of its creation.
The cool thing about Source Audio is that this clip will be in my bass demo video for the Programmable EQ. That’s where a lot of my song ideas have gone to die though…gotta be careful with that early gratification.
What does this song sound like it’s about to you? What should the lyrics focus on?
By the way…How EXCELLENT does that sound file look?
What Can You Gain When You Lose Everything? ‘The Parts That Build You Back’
As you can see from a few of the other posts on this site, I’ve had the music for this song kicking around for a while. It took me a while to figure out the right lyrical concept that matched the intense melancholy of the music.
I found the right subject at the wake of a friend’s mother who died unexpectedly. It was an awful, awful event in their life and even though I went through the experience of suddenly losing my dad, I had no idea what to say or do to help.
We sat in a circle at the funeral home and one at a time, people began to share memories about my friend’s mother. I struggled to figure out what I was going to say if that wave of condolences hit my seat and all eyes in the room fell on me. I didn’t know her at all. I never met her and I wasn’t there for her…I was there for my friend. His life had just been completely blown apart and I had come to be there for him. But what does that mean, to be there for someone?
I looked around me and saw some other friends who had come to this tiny funeral home in New England from as far away as France and Africa to be there for him. I realized that the best thing I could do was to point that out, as obvious as it may have been. We had all come so far for him because we knew that what had just happened had literally blown his life apart and we were there because we each held a piece of him.
The pieces we held were our memories of him, the shared experiences and memories in our minds that build the story and character of this person that we love. Even though the person we loved in him may be gone after this experience, we were there to let him know who he was to us. He could take it or leave it. He decides how he pieces himself back together. He decides who he wants to be.
That’s the remarkable thing about intense loss like that. You pick up the pieces. You decide the person you’ll become.
Thankfully, I was never asked or expected to say anything. The idea stuck with me though and it eventually became this song. The idea grew from there. I thought about how I felt when I was dealing with my loss and how I felt at so many of the other funerals I’ve had the misfortune of attending. In the end, ‘The Parts That Build You Back’ is my song for anyone who finds themself walking into a funeral home with no idea what to do. I hope that it will help them find a narrative for an awful event that has the power to heal.
The Parts That Build You Back
Your strength, your story, your home, your sense of pride
taken on the day she died.
My God what a hole inside…
I can feel the hurt of the words you heard
that blew your life away,
echoing in all you say.
So when you stare down to that void, think of me
racing to you with pieces of you, the parts that build you back.
So all that your heart beat for can hum in your soul once more.
Hmmm…
No I don’t know the pain that broke you down to pieces
But I will make you whole again.
I don’t need to understand.
I’m holding in my hands those word you once said,
‘nothings gonna break me down, even if it all just fails’
You see, I’m keeping that until you want it back
It’s tied tight to your name, stronger than the sharpest pain
and when you know who you’ll become, think of me
Standing by you with pieces of you, the parts that build you back
So all that your heart beat for can hum in your soul once more.
No I don’t know the pain that broke you down to pieces
But I will make you whole again.
I don’t need to understand.
Music for the Sagan Series
I saw an open submission on reddit for music on the Sagan Series videos and was pretty psyched by the opportunity. As you may have noticed from my other posts…I’m a big fan. I wanted to act quickly so instead of writing and recording something totally new, I chopped up ‘The Hum’ and made it fit with the offered narrative. I haven’t heard anything back yet so I’m getting increasingly pessimistic about my chances of getting the gig. 
So I thought I’d drop the recording here!
Fo’ Frizzle: Download All of the Source Audio Songs
All of my recent work with Source Audio is available for download from this Soundcloud player. Get ‘em while they’re hot!! Plenty more musical goodness to come. I’ve got some fun projects in the works.
Slurple Gurp. Bass Video Goodness.
This is the latest video out of life at Source Audio. Slurple Gurp! I gave it that name because that’s exactly what the bass line (the second bass line to be exact) sounds like. It’s all made with Source Audio pedals for the purposes of showcasing their sounds.
The most challenging part was the dubstep bridge near the end. I don’t listen to dubstep, but we’ve noticed that a lot of people have been looking to the Source Audio pedals to get that dubstep wobble sound. So, I opened my head up and YouTubed the shit out of dubstep and came up with that bridge. As it turns out, that’s my favorite part of the song. It’s such a different kind of music…meant to be played loud and open air so you can physically feel the movements of the sounds.
I really enjoyed writing this tune though. I hope it does a lot for Source Audio and for me. Let me know your thoughts on it!
New Song Demo – Run, Baby, Run
Here is the latest version of ‘Run, Baby, Run’. It is a long standing work in progress originally titled ‘South Hero’ that is about getting the EFFFFF out of the city. Am I right????
Anyways, I’d say the writing phase of this one is pretty much completed as of now. Just need to add in some drums. I recorded this with Logic Pro, a Babicz Identity guitar, Fodera Monarch bass and a bluebird microphone.
Here’s something I want to say about it so far: I was working on laying down bass lines for the track when I heard the melodic riff that comes in every now and then so I played it. Then the outro came where I’ve left room for some sort of solo and I decided to just jump on in and sing on my bass because there was no one there to judge me…and you know what…I kind of dig it. I like the sound of it. I’m thinking about maybe doing that more. It sounds good to me and no one else is doing it in songs like this (at least to my knowledge). What do you think? Keep the tasty bass solos or go the conventional route? (Loaded phrasing I know).
New Song Demo….Full Recording to Come
These are the lyrics to a song I finished in Vermont after a storm rolled through over Lake Champlain while I was reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. There’s a lot I’d like to say about that book, but I feel like I’ve said most of it with this song.
I’m putting the lyrics in italics so you take it extra seriously. Recording will be up soon.
Books burn and stories will fade
The strength in our arms can’t fight against change
The wind’s tide keeps rumbling on.
Look hard at the thunderous cloud,
there’s a freedom inside whispering out
and it’s calling you,
calling you home.
saying, “time will pass and reduce to ash, your bones.”
In a lightning crash, what fills the gap of when it hits…and when you know?
Facts hold our feet to the ground
Mind wanders off, chasing the sound
of the storm cloud that whispered of home.
From in between the Truth and what we see,
it’s thunder pulls out what we choose to perceive
echoing the size of our world.
Time will pass and reduce to ash, our bones.
In a lightning crash, what fills the gap of what exists…and what we know?
Holding strong to stones of belief,
we built up walls where all agreed.
But hear what the storm cloud said?
Even Mountains are shaped by the Wind.
Time will pass and reduce to ash, our bones.
In a lightning crash, what fills the gap of what has been…and what we’re told?
Like this:
This is How I do a Drum and Bass Jam
We recorded this video a long time ago, but we had it spliced up into three separate videos with these goofy talking introductions. Now we are trying to see how a video of straight music stands on the interwebs.
This is all in preparation for a big jam session that we have planned at Boston big-time studio, Q Division. It will be a big investment for us and we’re not quite sold yet on the idea that these types of videos will garner a lot of attention for Source Audio. I for one, think that these videos are awesome, but that’s because I love having the opportunity to jam my pants off.
Let me know what you think!
