this guitar went that way
Author: Luke
#musiceveryday 143 – see what i be
this one is ukelay lady lay
#musiceveryday 142 – be what i see
this one is celloed out
#musiceveryday 141 – see what i see
made three songs this weekend
all continuing from the previous, and kind exploring what hides in one chord, even though that sounds more thought out than it was
oh and three different instruments: guitar, then cello, then ukelele
#musiceveryday 137 – What We Hate
was listening to screeching weasel today. forgot how much i missed that.
#musiceveryday 134 “lesser roads”
my bet’s on c#minor
#musiceveryday 133 – force field
if you like imperfectly improvised solo cello pizzicato, this jam is for you!
#musiceveryday 132 – commerce
make the cello go
#musiceveryday 130 – wild winner
melodica. that is all.
#musiceveryday 129 – be do be
turning to my good friend mr. ukelele for today’s moody jam.
#musiceveryday 125 – Bear Club Practice – “Smoke In The Wind”
Last night I had the pleasure of practicing with the great Molly Allis and Jenica Anderson of Bear Club. We’ve been playing electric lately, but in preparation for a more intimate show we were armed with marimba, cello and acoustic guitar. And of course their voices. Sorry, the cello is a bit loud on this recording of us practicing a song since the recorder was close to me.
#musiceveryday 124 – sweet three
played some more bach action and then improvised afterwards, imperfect and all.
#musiceveryday 123 – sorry band
picked up good ol’ Cello McCelloface today. I played some Bach badly and then recorded this improvisation.
#musiceveryday 121 – blink
i like my toy xylophone
#musiceveryday 119 – untimely
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.
#musiceveryday 118 – and on
and on. improvised fingers on guitar.
#musiceverday 117 – and on we go
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.
#musiceveryday 102 – oh k
live from the corral
#musiceveryday 101 – intern
I am a music intern
#musiceveryday 100 – cistern
no fanfare! why? i got busy to post. like a tardy homework here is my assignment. 100 days. a few behind. F-
#musiceverday 93 – Over The Highway
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.
#musiceveryday 92 – a piano idea
I don’t have a name for this one, it’s just a short thought on piano
#musiceveryday 91 – seriously – solo cello
I posted the early version of this with beats, I thought the cello part was nice enough to share on its own.
#musiceveryday 90 – past the tide
this song is a bit more, er, aggressive. here are some tamped punkish chamber cellos.
#musiceveryday 89 – best throw
two cellos playing a pretty line, hard panned left and right gives it that floaty feeling
#musiceveryday – 88 – true radicals
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…
#musiceveryday 87 – Too Long
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.
#musiceveryday 86 – Ishtar
tried to rhyme ishtar and guitar and didn’t sing.
#musiceveryday 85 – ceremonial
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.
#musiceveryday – 84 – seriously
cello. then beats. then cello, and more beats!
big things.
#musiceveryday 83 – Sarabande On An Old Mandolin
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.
#musiceveryday 82 – trust
now we are all caught up. trust issues, all resolved.
#musiceveryday 81 – after every fire
gets lit
#musiceveryday 80 – after
just after
#musiceveryday 79 – housing
where we live, inside, but outside
#musiceveryday 78 – junk
where floating.
#musiceveryday 77 – jealously
all these cellos chasing after each other.
#musiceveryday 76 – fell through
and here we have a cello falling through a forcefield.
#musiceveryday – 75 – cello z
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!
#musiceveryday 73 – Sirens
I want to be cinematic. All my cinematic attempts lately veer so hard towards the melancholic. I blame cello.
#musiceveryday 72 – The River (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
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.
#musiceveryday 71 – shtuff
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.
#musiceveryday 70 – Sirens
Recording today, my favorite chord of all time, A6
yay for A6
#musiceveryday 70
#musiceveryday 68 – here is enlightenment
Here is enlightenment, you can pay with your time.
#musiceveryday 69 – The Great Escape (Light Repose)
#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.
#musiceveryday 66 – Hail
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.
#musiceveryday 65 – Formerly Known As
Playing cello and that’s all, seeing where it leads…
#musiceveryday 64 – Fireflies
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 – Forest
#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.
#musiceveryday 62 – El Dia
#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.