All Along The Kazoo Tower

This week features our own kaisermeathelm on kazoo, me on guitar, and Kelly Gunter on vocals. We’re performing Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower, arranged for guitar and kazoo.

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. . 2 + . + 4 .

This week’s entry is a 12-bar blues progression in G major. (played straight like a funk tune would be).  I wrote the bass line and intended to play it on my bass but couldn’t get the notes clean enough (not enough pinky strength to kill the string buzz). The guitar is also mine, although that is edited together from a few takes. Getting the rhythm hits perfectly on the 2, the and of 2 and the and of the 3 and the 4 proved hard for me.

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-Adam

Funk Arrestor

This week’s upload is a short funk riff on E over a Garageband-supplied drum loop. I wrote the guitar and bass parts. I’m having a lot of trouble getting a nice clear bass tone from my gear; anyone have any suggestions?

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-Adam

Almost finished BJ. Test audio.

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More. More. more. Like the guitar part somewhat. Overall, meh. Check it.

Indie Iron

Here’s a quick draft of a project I’m working on. The timing gets a little shaky but I like where the song is going. I’ve sent a copy to Kelly Gunter, the singer who work on ’15 Years’ with me, so hopefully next week’s submission will bring a full version of this new song.

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-Adam

Early sample of test project

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Beginning secret poop project for next weekend. Much work to do. Is sample. MJaaaay.

All sounds courtesy of Propeller Reason 4.0 -Redrum and NN-XT.

Poopfest 2010 upload of the week

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Enjoy the poopfest gents. Thanks for the upgrade Adam. I’m done ranting like an adult infant. HOORAAAAY! har.

Upload Space Upgraded

I’ve bought 5GB of space with wordpress.com so that we can upload music directly to this site. My bad for not doing this sooner. You upload by hitting the Media link on the left column after you’ve logged in. Ping me if you have trouble with this.

-Adam

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I’m getting seriously aggravated, for the past 2 hours been trying to figure out why the fuck I can’t upload my goddamn mp3. Upgraded my own blog, that didn’t seem to help. Don’t have an upgrade button for Iron Musician. WTF. I’m about to start breaking shit. Are you undermining me Fletcher? I know where you live.

I suck.

I have yet to record anything for Iron Musician.  Basically, I am still not so good at playing guitar.  I don’t mean that in some abstract, self-loathing sense.  I mean that I’m just now getting to the point where I can transition some chords quickly enough to actually play some semblance of music.  I think I should be able to have some mediocre version of a popular song recorded for next weekend.  But I warn you, while others in this challenge will be posting things that are actually pleasant to listen to, you’ll be hearing some pretty bad covers of pretty easy songs from this participant. 🙂