Song: Ukes in Fall

Should be on a future bandcamp collection called, "Keeping On"

What is she waiting for?

Latest Krita creation. "What is she waiting for?" or, "What is in the room?"

Be happy it is spring, but...

"Be Happy it is Spring, but I must repent my sins." That is the title of my latest digital art attempt. Someday, I really am going to have a breakthrough painting, where I actually learn how to paint lots of stuff better. Not today though.

Home in the Snow

It seems that I once painted a winter scene very well. But, since then, I've sort of forgotten how I did it. So, this is my attempt to again paint a winter scene.

Arbre

I call it, in likely bad French, "Abre de la nouvelle annee avec garcon."

Sloppy Waltz

A Sloppy Waltz by johnyorks

This is just as the title says, pretty much a sloppy waltz. Not too waltz like, but then if it was, it wouldn't be sloppy enough.

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

Blogger won't accept the midi player, so...

I guess much of my scribbling, now that I understand better how to go about it at least on the technical end if not the musical notation end, will be at my tumblr:  Here.  I might post scribblings as jpegs or pngs, maybe the occasional pdf. But it seems easier to embed the player from musescore where it will embed.

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.

another format test for scribbles

This is just another format test for scribbles. I hope to put a pdf of all the scribbles made so far too.

compressed png format test

This post is more of a test to see if these scribbles will display on mobile devices after being compressed for web page display.

Boot, Uke and Bass

This is one that is like old time Rock and Roll, simple and to the point.

Something Else # 5

And lastly, for now,  (I don't think I will use the same title over and over, but who knows) number 5. I think I remember that this one came out pretty good. I believe I do have the audio for this one around.

Something Else # 4

And this is "Something Else" number 4

Something Else # 3

Here is the third "Something Else"

Something Else # 2

Here is the second "Something Else."

Something Else #1

Here it is, Something Else #1. That's because I did a few simply called, "Something Else" in numerical order.