Here's another one. It's just African talking drum, piano (recorded three times: Bass, chords, melody) and humming (2 times).
Click: Cumberland Gap
Happy New Year!

Here's a traditional bluegrass song called "All the Good Times are Past and Gone". I arranged it for cardboard box, maraca, synth (for bass), acoustic guitar on two tracks, one for the chords and one for the melody.
Click: All the Good Times are Past and Gone

This one is called "Little Log Cabin in the Lane" and it's by William Shakespeare Hayes. I used the same instrumentation as "I'll be all Smiles Tonight".
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So far I've recorded three bluegrass songs for my upcoming CD--a collection of old bluegrass melodies. They're instrumentals only--no singing, at least not yet. Here's an mp3 of my own little rendition of "I'll be all smiles tonight" by T.B. Ranson. It's percussion, synth bass, concert ukulele and old upright piano.



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Yesterday I made a recording of "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" by T.B. Ranson. It went pretty well. I used the home-made mic my brother Karl made for me for Christmas one year (which sounds incredible) and the Mackie 1202 mixer. Then, the signal went into my Macbook (laptop). I used Audacity software and i can't complain. I laid down a simple percussion track tapping lightly on the back of my old acoustic guitar (since my jembe is still out of commission). Then I used the old CZ-1000 phase distortion synth to lay down a simple bass line. Then I played the chords rhythmically on my concert ukulele. Finally I played the melody with some harmony notes (using only the right hand) on my old upright piano. I actually did two piano tracks because the first one came out a little too low-level. So I have two identical piano tracks and it gives the already out-of-tune piano sound an eerie sort looming quality that I really like. Anyway, that's all for now. It's pretty fun and so far so good. I'd better get started on the next track. Now that I know how I'm going to approach each track, the process should go a bit more quickly.