Rock Songs, Tunes, Beats & Mixes

Description : This was my second recording I did in Music Maker Studio. I'm probally going to redo this cover completely. Since I know how to work the "Beat Box" plug-in that emulates the Roland TR-808 and have been working with drum loops. Anyways, I had always wanted to experiment at doing my own version of this classic song by Phil. I'm using the Silver Synth to deliver a ACID sounding TB-303 bass line. This was my first attempt at using Synth Plug in's, and recording guitar tracks into a project, along with using loops. Constructing a song from scratch and not simply hacking a demo apart as I did for "Jenny 867-5309". I thought I'd share this with you guys for the Hell of it. It's just been hanging out on my Hard Drive for a month now... it's missing the signature drum licks but oh well. After I did this I moved onto working on my first original "Never Here" as my third project.

Description : How to best describe this one? A chilled out beatnick alternative rock with a sort of Jazz and folk thang going on? Used a drum loop, a shaker loop, two bass loops, laid some guitar tracks on it. One Guitar duplicates the upright bass loop, another one strumming the chords and another that's picking at some notes in the chord higher up. Laid down a main vocal track, added a faint darker back up vocal track. Also have a spoken track panned to the left. Actually this is one of those stereo recordings that is made for headphones..... The lead vocal floats around some between the center and slighty left at times. The lead is actually my Acoustic, which I added guitar effects to in Music Maker. Sound like it's an electric. I used my cheap ASS labtec Walmart special PC mic to record the acoustic and sing through.. I tried to make this mix a little hotter and more sperated compared to my last ones. Hopefully the vocals don't stand out in front so much but rather blend with everything else. Oh yeah, I'm using a couple of FX loops.. one is the old record player sound in the start of the song, used another one where the lead guitar starts off. The lead is basically almost the same riff as the bass line. Let me know how the mix is on this one, if it's any better compared to my last few?

Description : A sad but true yet funny song about the Kind of girl that drinks too much. It's a little rock, a little punk.. and has the purity of the Ramones.. with a touch of all that is sleaze. Drum loops used... based off from a Bass Guitar Jam I had going on. Slice Dice and repeat process all in Magix Music Maker Studio...

Description : Alternative Country Rock Fusion Disco does not exist as a Genre on here, so I've stuck this under 'Rock'.... This is a work in progress... Getting a lot more practice in using Drum loops......This Done up in Magix Music Maker (Basic Edition), with Drum loops. Everything else I either created the loops or played live tracks (vocals,guitar,bass). The Intro a bit by accident when I was adding effects on one of the vocal takes.. The Bridge is rather unique, opted to stay away from doing the expected. Enjoy.

Description : This song is a bit of a fusion between Rock, Techno with an Angry Emo Edge to it. It's about coming to the realization that the other person in a failed relationation was never there for you at all.

This is a work still in progress, up to the 7th Demo.

I first recorded a punchy almost rap singing style vocal track, a sort of thing you might expect in a Linkin Park song. In the pre chorus I sang some parts in A Minor, over top of the driving Em, G, D, C. The Chorus I broken into smooth hooky chorus. I added a Lower Darker Vocal track after some people suggested it. One person turned me onto The song "Nobody" by Skindred, I had never tried singing in a dark low voice like that before. Was a new experience, plus a bit of a challenge to do it with the kind of mic.

This was the first original song I came up with using MAGIX Music Maker (basic edition). The Drum track is from the stock drum loops. I used the Silver Synth plug-in for the Bass lines. Used a few other loops for extra textural overlays. I played the Guitar tracks myself. I did add a second clean guitar track to the chorus and used the Wha effects of Music Maker. So the driving guitar riff is really two tracks laid down of me playing the indentical thing. One Dirty an one clean with the Wha effects.

I produced the first demo in the matter of a weekend, while getting the feel of how the software worked. Following weekend went back and added the second vocal track and made additional adjustments.

I'm hoping to totally redo this song, after I decide upon and purchase software and Hardware. Any feedback on this work in progress would be appreciated.

Description : instrumental rock
kind of a U2 meets satriani ive been told.......

i play all the guitar bass and keys
and i just used some old loops i had for drums

Description : Remixed & edited, some of Pages riffes. I always preferred his the studio take of the lead in Stairway to Heaven over the live version. Here's my cover. Take care & keep on kickin out the jams. As always, comments welcome.

Description : This was an old riff that I had recorded years ago. The goal here was first the VST drum mix, then the focus shifted to the over-all mix. The guitars and base are the only 'real' instruments; the rest is VST. Comments welcome.

Description : The first tune I did with guitarist Josh Parks. I wrote the loop and he put down the guitar part. The guitar was recorded the old fashioned way, with a mic(AT 4033) on his amp, a Fender Champ Junior. A Tube Screamer may have been involved, too.