#musiceveryday 121 – blink

on April 30, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

i like my toy xylophone

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#musiceveryday 119 – untimely

on April 28, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I am not a drummer. Drummers are insanely talented people. There is an unspoken precision mixed with non-thought that is beyond me. Nonetheless. Going to drums is a way to get to a start place of non music think-too-much for me.

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#musiceveryday 118 – and on

on April 27, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

and on. improvised fingers on guitar.

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#musiceverday 117 – and on we go

on April 26, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

It has been a while. Well. That’s ok… right?

So, let’s not worry about how many days missed. Who even cares what the rules might be. I want to get back to the core of this thing as it has evolved:

Music Everyday shall maybe be improvised things… things that come about out of the day. The whole idea for me was/is/shall be that I find joy in making music every day….

and… AND! if it so happens that I share that online… well, great. But I am restating here that this is such a selfish project. It’s for me. Yeah. Oh yeah. Well, kind of. It’s for you. It’s for music, not meant to be a single hand clapping. So.

Here’s the latest.

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#musiceveryday 102 – oh k

on April 11, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

live from the corral

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#musiceveryday 101 – intern

on April 11, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I am a music intern

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#musiceveryday 100 – cistern

on April 11, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

no fanfare! why? i got busy to post. like a tardy homework here is my assignment. 100 days. a few behind. F-

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#musiceverday 93 – Over The Highway

on April 6, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

Here’s a super rough “song”… I don’t know if it’s that, so much as an idea and letting the lyrics fall out of its pockets to see if there’s anything worth picking up.

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#musiceveryday 92 – a piano idea

on April 6, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I don’t have a name for this one, it’s just a short thought on piano

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#musiceveryday 91 – seriously – solo cello

on April 6, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I posted the early version of this with beats, I thought the cello part was nice enough to share on its own.

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#musiceveryday 90 – past the tide

on April 2, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

this song is a bit more, er, aggressive. here are some tamped punkish chamber cellos.

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#musiceveryday 89 – best throw

on April 2, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

two cellos playing a pretty line, hard panned left and right gives it that floaty feeling

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#musiceveryday – 88 – true radicals

on April 2, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I’ve been making music everyday! But not specifically for my music everyday project. But with that spirit in mind I’m going to post excerpts from what I’ve been working on for the last few days…

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#musiceveryday 87 – Too Long

on March 29, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

Here’s an outtake of guitar, the rest of the song was too long. It’s funny when I realize what I was listening to a lot when recording… in this case I think I must have definitely been on a Gillian Welch / Dave Rawlings kick.

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#musiceveryday 86 – Ishtar

on March 27, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

tried to rhyme ishtar and guitar and didn’t sing.

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#musiceveryday 85 – ceremonial

on March 27, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I was almost going to “cheat” and post an old recording. But the whole idea is, for me, to find some joy in playing music everyday. Sharing it makes it more likely that that happens, in theory and practice. So I sat and played guitar. It’s not profound maybe, or show how rad I can shred. It’s just making music.

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#musiceveryday – 84 – seriously

on March 25, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

cello. then beats. then cello, and more beats!

big things.

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#musiceveryday 83 – Sarabande On An Old Mandolin

on March 24, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I need to get a good mandolin or fix this ancient one or maybe put strings on it for the first time ever (probably maybe has not had new strings in 40 years) because it’s tuned the same way as a cello (fifths) so I can read sheet music and play along without hating everything. I like this Bach movement the best. From the suites, number 3.

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#musiceveryday 82 – trust

on March 23, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

now we are all caught up. trust issues, all resolved.

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#musiceveryday 81 – after every fire

on March 23, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

gets lit

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#musiceveryday 80 – after

on March 23, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

just after

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#musiceveryday 79 – housing

on March 23, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

where we live, inside, but outside

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#musiceveryday 78 – junk

on March 23, 2016March 23, 2016 by Luke

where floating.

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#musiceveryday 77 – jealously

on March 23, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

all these cellos chasing after each other.

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#musiceveryday 76 – fell through

on March 23, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

and here we have a cello falling through a forcefield.

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#musiceveryday – 75 – cello z

on March 23, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I had fallen behind. I had Bruce Springsteen shows to go to and a show to play in San Diego and Spring to hike for and just life. So I decided to catch up and recorded the 8 missing tracks in the past two days. All cello based instrumentals. Enjoy!

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#musiceveryday 73 – Sirens

on March 16, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I want to be cinematic. All my cinematic attempts lately veer so hard towards the melancholic. I blame cello.

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#musiceveryday 72 – The River (Bruce Springsteen Cover)

on March 13, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

In honor of The Boss being in town this week I played through as many songs off this album I could pull off. This one gets me every time.

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#musiceveryday 71 – shtuff

on March 12, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

I want to make a new album where I can sing and it’s just one cello part (no overdubs) so that when I play it live it’s something that is as real as the recording.

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#musiceveryday 70 – Sirens

on March 11, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

Recording today, my favorite chord of all time, A6

yay for A6

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#musiceveryday 68 – here is enlightenment

on March 11, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

Here is enlightenment, you can pay with your time.

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#musiceveryday 69 – The Great Escape (Light Repose)

on March 11, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

#musiceveryday 69

This is one where I’m glad that the four track still works. I don’t know when I did this song, but it was very, very long ago. And it was when I’d use a handheld audio recorder to double up the vocals somewhat randomly.

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#musiceveryday 66 – Hail

on March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 by Luke

This morning the most tremendous thunder I think I’ve heard in LA… woke me up and admittedly I was kind of grumpy like “what is that rumbling sound argh” and then I’m so glad I got up in the early dawn and saw this wall of hail approach and flashes so close I decided being on the roof maybe not the optimal place to witness.

Also this is another solo cello improvised thingy.

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#musiceveryday 65 – Formerly Known As

on March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 by Luke

Playing cello and that’s all, seeing where it leads…

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#musiceveryday 64 – Fireflies

on March 7, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

Recording in a living room while a party outside. This song. The one about one night camping in the woods in North Carolina.

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#MusicEveryday 63 – Forest

on March 4, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

#MusicEveryday 63
Playing cello and trying to pull something out of being erh… not the most inspired I’ve ever been. This ended up sort of being like a walk up and down hill which is what I did this morning so there you have it.

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#musiceveryday 62 – El Dia

on March 3, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

#musiceveryday 62
Was practicing for next week’s show at the silverlake lounge and just kind of ended up singing this. and so you have it, all I needed.

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#musiceveryday 61 – New String Theory

on March 2, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

#musiceveryday 61 – making up a song on the spot. to tell the truth I really like this way of “writing” lyrics. I’m not saying that *just* because I’m lazy… just that some of these off the cuff lines might be a LOT better than something I could turn over again and again.

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#musiceveryday 60 – Quietudes

on March 2, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

#musiceveryday 60 – Just a moment playing. Honestly I kind of wish I could just play like this non stop, indefinitely.

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#musiceveryday 59 – On The Outside In The Nighttime (On The Guitar, In The Afternoon)

on March 2, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

#musiceveryday 59 – I’ve never played this song on guitar… UNTIL NOW

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Got to record with this fancy Neumann mic today

on February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 by Luke

Einstein and music

on February 19, 2016February 19, 2016 by Luke

life

on February 17, 2016February 17, 2016 by Luke

Music Everyday 39 – Pushed Together

on February 8, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

For this edition of Music Everyday for some reason I took two junk guitars and tuned them to the same-ish note (whichever note would hold, they’re not renowned for their intonation) and pushed their backs together while I played, hoping to create a nice drone-y sound from the back guitar. Not too much drone action but made the crummy top guitar very warm and resonant. I might have my million dollar idea: lashing together guitars for a warmer tone. I mean, it’s not like I composed a masterpiece with this setup or anything. But it’s fun to try new things.

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Music Everyday 32 – Once I Caught A Wave

on February 1, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

?#?musiceveryday? 32: an idea that I should remember

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Make Music Every Day 7 – Back To Where

on January 26, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

Here’s a raw song idea from a while ago. I’d like to turn this into something someday soon, it keeps hanging out.

*Also I want to explain what I’m sharing here since I haven’t really yet: raw, unedited music that I make shared everyday for the sake of sharing. Not for the sake of being cool or furthering my career or whatever, not to impress, just for it’s own sake on my end. So this ideally will be me each day picking up an instrument or singing something new and fresh and having the um, gusto to share it regardless of whether I am super duper confident in it. That’s the big challenge right there. I just want to find the joy in making music this year a lot more than I have when I’ve been overly concerned with what people think. You know? So take it as you like it, and thanks if you’ve read this far lol. And also thank you sincerely for taking a moment of your time to listen to this music.

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Make Music Every Day 6 – Rehearsal

on January 26, 2016April 29, 2024 by Luke

Didn’t have time to record/create something new for the e’ry day project. But I did rehearse with Bear Club for our show on Friday at El Cid. Cello eye view!