This is the very first recording I made after I got my Korg X50 Keyboard. 
I used Cakewalk Sonar 7.0 Producer software for recording and mixing and also Dimension Pro soft-synth software for some sound effects. I think it’s kinda pretty and relaxing. Please take a listen by clicking on the link below and let me know what you think. Thanks! “M”
If you even “kinda” like this, then check out my entire first “album”.
Now, in case you haven’t noticed, I’m not very good at coming up with song titles so I haven’t really named any of my songs so far. In part, this is due to a lack of creativity and also due to the fact that up until now I have mostly been playing around with recording and haven’t actually sat down and “wrote” a song. I plan on becoming more disciplined and focused in the future and will be creating and recording actual songs. But, for now, I would still like to share some of the recordings I have made because I think they’re pretty good and because they illustrate the potential that exists in home digital recording – even for the recreational musician.
This next recording was made using the Cakewalk Sonar software, the Dimension Pro software and the Korg X50 keyboard/synthesizer. In addition, I also used my Roland Handsonic electronic drums synthesizer (which is the coolest thing I have ever had the joy to play and will be posting about it shortly) and my Fender Strat (which I will also be posting about later). I recorded most of the tracks on my Boss BR864 digital multitrack recorder and then transfered them to my computer where I added a Dimension Pro synth track and mixed everything with the Sonar program. I used the same backing track from the Korg that I used in the first song, as you will probably recognize. Hope you like it!
I was just fooling around with some loops and made this fun little 15 second recording using Sonar X1.
Why do so many people worry so much and think so much about The End of The World?
Is it a way to escape from the inevitable reality of our own individual departure from the world? After all, when I die (all by myself) my whole World ends – not a happy thought. Maybe some people feel better thinking that when they go everyone else is going to go too. That way they don’t have to worry about things going on as usual after they’re gone.
What I think it’s really all about though is that if we can be sure that the world is going to end sometime soon in our lifetime then we don’t have to worry so much about the future or about following the rules. Maybe it’s all about our deep-seated desire for Freedom. If the world is going to end in 2012, then I don’t have to worry about planning for retirement – I can live it up now. If the world’s going to end soon I don’t have to worry about all the things that we people are supposed to worry about: building a good reputation, putting off our dreams “for later”, or saving up for the future – we feel as though we now have permission to “live for today.”
Of course this is something we should all be doing now anyway – fuck the end of the world – I want to live NOW and if “now” lasts for just 2 years or 50 years it doesn’t make any difference – make the most of life everyday!
Remember, even if the world doesn’t come to a crashing halt all at once – your own “world” will sooner or later. Enjoy your day now.
“M”
(E) Superbad tiger running with your brain,
Tucked beneath your arms like a devil’s train
When the (A) angels from the heavens meet the angels from the earth
We’ll (E) hide inside our cave aha that’s right of course
(F)And (F#)we (G) know, (G)we (Ab)ain’t (A) slow we’re the a(E)vengers
I’ve known lots of ladies and the ladies know me
I’ve been foxy roxy punctured and I’m funky born free
You can needle treacle kiss me with the honey from your mouth
But believe me I’m a bad moon bopster
And I’ll never come in your house
And we know, we ain’t slow we’re the avengers
E Abm x 4
On the street, people call you a foxy girl,
Me, I’m loose, like a golden goose, you can have my juice.
(A)Steady on soldier, (B)watch what your doing to (Abm)my girl,
Steady on soldier, watch what your doing to my girl.
Electric slim, and the factory hen man, they ain’t my kind,
At dead of night, like a fiery kite, you’ve been on my mind.
Steady on soldier, watch what your doing to my girl,
Steady on soldier, watch what your doing to my girl.
Frozen feet on a winter street, man that ain’t your fate,
Greased in sun, California fun, man that’s more my style
Steady on soldier, watch what your doing to my girl,
Steady on soldier, watch what your doing to my girl,
Steady on soldier, watch what your doing to my girl.
C Em Am D G C
She could have (C)laid, could have (Em)stayed, on the (Am)highway,
I could have (D)loved her, Oh (C)yes I could.
Her children stayed, children played, on the highway,
I could have known them, Oh yes I could.
(C)On my knees I’m (Em)begging please uh (Am)huh.
C Em Am D C
She could have laid, could have stayed, on the highway,
I could have loved her, Oh yes I could.
Her children stayed, children played, on the highway,
I could have known them, Oh yes I could.
On my knees I’m begging please uh huh,
On my knees I’m begging please uh huh,
On my knees I’m begging please uh huh.
C Em Am D C
(G)Your mama said, clean out your head boy, don’t lay nothing on my child
Your friends they said, Your heads in a noose boy lay some boogie on our minds
And we (D)stood like the rapids and (C)I was like a new born (G)child.
Your father said, clean out your head boy, go and kick cans along the street
Your father said, clean out your toes rose and go and lick some uncooked meat
And we stood like the rapids and I was like a new born child.
And we stood like the rapids and I was like a new born child.
Your mama said, my babe is not free son, but I’m loose about midnight
Your father said, Your sisters a groove boy, what I said it just ain’t right
But then I stood like the rapids and they were like a new born child.
Gonna drive me wild
Naked On A Strange Planet 