Music Sketch I came up with studying G Lydian
https://soundcloud.com/glenn-schoonmaker/music-sketch-20161023-high
Music Sketch I came up with studying G Lydian
https://soundcloud.com/glenn-schoonmaker/music-sketch-20161023-high
Music Sketch created while studying C Harmonic Major Mode #6 (Aeolian bR). Lyrics were “stream of consciousness” (made up on the spot) while coming up with the melody.
https://soundcloud.com/glenn-schoonmaker/music-sketch-20161014-always
https://soundcloud.com/glenn-schoonmaker/20161021-till-we-meet-again
Another idea while studying C Harmonic Major Mode #7 (Locrian bb7)
https://soundcloud.com/glenn-schoonmaker/20161016-chma-7
Came up with this sketch while studying the C Harmonic Major Mode #7 (Locrian bb7)
https://soundcloud.com/glenn-schoonmaker/ms20161013
New music sketch:
https://soundcloud.com/glenn-schoonmaker/music-sketch-20161015
Will be playing with Roger Allen and J. Scott this Tuesday night (9/9) at Lou’s Songwriter Showcase. Should be a great time.
Show starts @ 7:00 and goes to 10pm. We’ll be going on ~9:30 to close things out.
Little Lou’s BBQ
2455 Winchester Blvd, Campbell, CA 95008
http://goo.gl/maps/OW8Sy
Was playing around with Logic tonight and came up with the following song idea:
Thanks to Kaila D’Sa @ Red Elephant Studios for putting together this video of me playing at The Empty Room last Friday (5/16/14):
One of my goals for this year was to write more songs. More specifically a whole album’s worth of new material. Well the year is almost half over and I don’t have much in the way of new material. So I decided that instead of waiting for the songs to magically happen, I would try an experiment to see if I could be a bit more methodical about it.
Here’s the recipe. I picked “A” for the key, “Harmonic Minor” for the scale, found the chords in the scale here, started fooling around with chord progressions and inversions, came up with lyrics using random cards I picked from this cool game called “The Storymatic” and a couple hours later had a new song: