Here's a sketch I made.
So I've been playing bass again, like a whole lot.
I also got a mac, now.
Sorry, PC, but it turns out I hate you.
Anyway, with the help of my bass, a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter cable, garageband & reason, I made this track.
I put laid down five basslines, tweaked them out with different effects,
put a drumbeat I made in reason underneath it, threw in a kiddy sample,
and I present it to you.
Peep (again, with headphones):
I still think of this song as new.
In fact, it's called "New News".
As per my usual, it was just a draft, but I never finished it, so it became the final cut due to laziness.
I'm proud of it, but it could've used a little more shaping-up.
Please, though, check it out (but listen with headphones to catch all the bass):
This song, it's one of my favorites.
I wish I understood my creative process, so I could just make songs like this at will.
Unfortunately, that's not the way it goes.
I made it from 10.30am- 3.44pm on February 7, 2004, instead of studying.
Maybe it worked out so well because I was under pressure.
Listen to it.
This was a new song, but it sat as a draft for so long, I know that it's gonna stay with way it is.
I mean, if it sounds incomplete, lemme know.
Check it out, let me know what you think.
So, this is a remix I worked on.
Check it out, and I'd encourage you to email suggestions, but the spammers have been using email links on my website as routes to abuse my inbox, so I had to remove any such links.
Sorry, folks.
Anyways, still listen, & enjoy.
okay, so here's two little drafts I playes around with. I'd started sampling, so one's just a chop of some drums with a tweaked
guitar sample from the Blackbyrd's "Rock Creek Park" (shouts to Jason Toney & his pops!):
I was messing around with this new M-Audio Firewire Solo (click here to check it out), where I could play my bass & guitar right into my hard drive.
The song I made with it is called "DarkLove", which is stupid, I know.
Using Cool Edit Pro 2.0, I sampled the drums from The Darkness' song "Love is Just a Feeling", rearranged them, and then played bass & guitar over them.
The resulting song is admittedly corny, but it's what happened.
This is the draft of a song I'd working on with another artist, TinaKristina.
here's her myspace page, too.
nothing ended up happening, collaboratively-
We were planning stuff out, but then I moved, and we lost contact, reestablished contact, etc.
Eventually, the plan was to take out the bass so she could play her own take on it, and then she could add
vocals and whatever else she sees fit.
Whatever, though.
I'm happy with the shape it took, in the meantime.
If nothing else happens with it, I like it fine the way it is.
This is song is just about 3 years old now.
I started it the night of Jan. 20, 2004, around 10.30pm, instead of going to bed.
I wasn't done when i quit for the night, but it was already 1.45am.
Haven't touched it since, which is certainly nothing to be proud of.
Check it out, and give feedback, please.
These songs were works in progress, but I've left them alone for so long,
I've come to think of them as finished products. These took me in some new directions at the time, so I'm pretty damn proud of them..
I started this song on the morning of October 18, 2003;
Woke up, hit the computer, and didn't even make it to the bathroom until like 3 hours later.
I'd been listening to a lot of 2-step at the time, and that's where this song came.
This is a work in progress.
My friend Weusi recorded vocals for it on January 19, 2004.
If you can believe it, I only got around to really hammering something out on February 27, 2005.
Where does the freaking time go?
We recorded it in Logic, but that's so damn un-user friendly that it drove me away for a full year.
Finally, I sat down, dumped everything I wanted to use out of Logic as separate wave files, and
played with them in Cool Edit 2.0 Pro.
That's what resulted in the draft you have in front of you.
It's definitely only a draft.
I didn't really do Weusi's vocals justice here; perhaps I should've messed around with some effects and structured the song
a little better.
I had planned to build the instrumental melodies around the vocals.
However, sometimes things get away from you as time progresses, and right now I'm more worried about passing this next BioChem exam than working the kinks out of this song.
Time changes everything, huh?
[weusi adds: i'm not a vocalist! and this is just an experience that others should have. get
someone to kill this track!]
Anyways, check it out, though, and decide for yourself.
Hell, if you think you could do a better job with the vocals, i'd freaking love to work with you!
Send me an email and work me back up into excitement about this song, if you want to.
Or don't.
This is a song that my friend included in a piece he produced for NPR's Morning Edition.
(You can listen to the piece, called "Life as a Black Man", by clicking here).
Man, I was on the radio. True, my song comes on 6 min 30 sec into the broadcast,
and then, only for 30 seconds, but still.
Thank you, Coco Furious.
Check it out.
These are old.
If you have any comments that don't involve insults or threats of personal injury, or if, perhaps, you'd like to have my music on your myspace profile, check me out at myspace.com/jonnyreal.
Message me on myspace if you liked what you've heard & would prefer a higher fidelity copy (these're all 64kpbs mp3s).