friday free form 5/19/17

wednesday 5/10/17 free form jam

Song: Heart of the matter

Let it Ride (Old Man Voice)

Album: Mostly Instrumental

Album, "Mostly Instrumental," using nylon string guitar and other instruments.

01 Can't Go Back
02 Gadfly
03 Never been to Iceland
04 Ode to Paul Bowles in Morocco
05 On the Road to Gaul
06 Planning my escape

Song: Terrible Youth

Song: Overdrive

Overdrive from J Yorks on Vimeo.

Song: A Hard Day at the Office

This is the very latest from my recent bandcamp album.

Song: Gotta Move(Little Bird)

Latest song from the bandcamp album, Accident and Happenstance.

Song: Organ Grind Blues

Another from the bandcamp album, Propagandistic Media. 

Song: Not getting Anywhere anyway

From my bandcamp album, Propagandistic Media, this is the song called, "Not Getting Anywhere Anyway."

Another Song of Redemption

Now that I have collected most, but not all, of my original music on a site called tindeck, I thought I'd begin to put it up on a few of the web spaces I use. So, I will try my best to not repeat songs that I already have on this blog in some form. But I can't be entirely sure not to.

I'm just unorganized enough to know that there are songs of mine out on the internet that I likely don't have stored away somewhere. In fact, I'm sure there are more songs out there than I can recall. But this effort at tindeck is the best I can do, and I hope to have most of my songs up on YouTube soon too. Right now, I have several in the form of videos posted on YouTube so far at my JY Media Channel.

you sent me away

sent me away by johnyorks

Another short one with the bass on top, as that makes sense to me.

Boot (uke and bass with musecore)

This was the best 25 seconds of written notation I came up with thus far. I stopped doing it, but might try to improve again if I have(make) time. I've always been weak on written notation, because it is so much easier just to play and record than to write it.But now, tht I am learning simple coding, it seems not very different from that. I've really caught the html coding bug, but am truly not very good at that yet either...

Boot by johnyorks

Oh, here's a better way

Now I know how to do this. Anyway, here is "Boot - Uke/Bass" one more time, but now with a better viewer. The notation plays along with the midi file, but I couldn't get the embed code to work, so here is the link: Boot

Some of the audio from these scribbles

Here is some of the audio from these scribbles I've been writing. I suppose it can only get better one might say. But the last one is particularly not bad. And if I left the drums out of the first, it would have been better. Of course, if it was real instruments instead of midi synth, then it might come across more too. This would be especially the case with the one I wrote for ukulele and bass. Of course, the ones I like best are the ones that use the chord pattern that signifies old time Rock and Roll. I've always liked that one best, and it is found in many pop songs today in different keys. Writing in drums can be hard to do sometimes, at least in this way. Sometimes I write part of the drums in my recording program, and it seems to work better. Hopefully, I'll have a longer more complex piece soon enough. Not too complex though, because I like to keep it simple also. I hope to learn more about using syncopation. I have the link on my blog link list, but for good measure, let me include it here.

A PDF reader version of the musical notation scribbles so far

Hopefully, this will present as a PDF reader presentation of my scribbles thus far.





Go to Archive.org via the link provided with the reader to download.