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.
now we are all caught up. trust issues, all resolved.
gets lit
just after
where we live, inside, but outside
where floating.
all these cellos chasing after each other.
and here we have a cello falling through a forcefield.
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!
I want to be cinematic. All my cinematic attempts lately veer so hard towards the melancholic. I blame cello.
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.
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.
Recording today, my favorite chord of all time, A6
yay for A6
#musiceveryday 70
Here is enlightenment, you can pay with your time.
#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.
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.
Playing cello and that’s all, seeing where it leads…
Recording in a living room while a party outside. This song. The one about one night camping in the woods in North Carolina.
#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.
at The Forest
#cincogram (at Griffith Hiking Trail)
Forest Friday (at Griffith Hiking Trail)
#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.
Boop
#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.
#musiceveryday 60 – Just a moment playing. Honestly I kind of wish I could just play like this non stop, indefinitely.
#musiceveryday 59 – I’ve never played this song on guitar… UNTIL NOW
First wild oats of the season (at Griffith Hiking Trail)
So here we are (at Helipad At Griffith Park)
#nofilter pic through light shade on window (at LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
New favorite room (at LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Foliage
Palm thingies (fruits? Seeds?)
Got to record with this fancy Neumann mic today (at The Art Institute of California – Hollywood)
Good bad pano (at Griffith Park Observatory Hiking Trails)
Onward #cincogram (at The Forest)
