Merry Christmas: Jingle Bell-bottoms

Recording a new Christmas tune has become sort of a holiday tradition here in the studio. So far, I've recorded Silent Night and What Child Is This (Greensleeves), both of which are "public domain" pieces. I did a version of Frosty the Snowman once too, and that wasn't public domain (though it was never for sale or anything).

This year I decided to do a really hokey version of Jingle Bells called Jingle Bell-bottoms, complete with lots of wah-wah'd guitar parts, lots of bells, jazzed up lines, and a family chorus right in the middle. Hope you like it! It's freely downloadable.

From our house to yours: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Jingle Bell-bottoms by sonicdeviant

New Project: Christmas Party Presentation Music

A friend of mine, Norman Bates (no, not really...I can't back that up), is using his visual art talents to create a digital presentation of photographs, featuring our fellow Air Force squadron members to be displayed at the upcoming annual Christmas party. He asked me to put together four songs that would be used as backing music and take up about 20 minutes.

So, here are three of them for you to check out, in all their lame glory. The songs are sort of hokey on purpose (can you tell by the titles?), and I'm not sure what I'll do for the final number yet--maybe a country piece. The following three are in the bluesy, heavy rock, and dance genres, respectively.

Baah-lad Sheep Love

Holy Hand Grenade (of Antioch)

I Can't Back That Up

Happy New Year!

Just wanted to wish everyone out there a Happy 2009!

SD's "Frosty," jazzy style

Merry Christmas, everyone! I recently purchased a Line 6 Pod Studio GX, so being in the Christmas spirit, I went ahead and pulled down my jazz fakebook yesterday and gave this classic a go to try out the Line 6 unit (I've had a few problems with it in the connectivity department, but it sounds awesome otherwise).

Everything was recorded through the GX using Pod Farm and into Logic. The guitar I used was my Epiphone Performer SE acoustic (all through the pickup); it has two pickups, and one is in the neck so I can get a neat, jazzy sound. For the fretless bass, I used my fretless guitar and then just dropped it down an octave...can't believe how much it sounds like an acoustic bass! The drums are Beta Monkey's Jazz Essentials.

Enjoy!

Frosty The Snowman.mp3

Shane's "Silent Night" appears in animated feature

Sonic Deviant's instrumental recording of "Silent Night" recently appeared on "Seasoned Greetings," a short holiday film animated by Tyson Moore.

GameBored » Blog Archive » Seasons Greetings:

The photography was taken at my parent’s cabin in Colorado and most of the editing was done in Houston, Texas. The notion of this pyramid movie is to fade the comparisons between the holidays of the winter solstice: Christmas, Hannukah, Yule, Duali, Kwanza, and most importantly - Oshnaqua. Send the link to all your friends.

Show notes: Tyson Moore:

http://tymora42.podbean.com

http://www.gamebored.blogspot.com

http://www.myspace.com/tymora42

ICEHOUSE game pieces by andrew looney / looney labs - www.looneylabs.com

The song “Silent Night” performed by Sonic Deviant - www.sonicdeviant.com

Shane records Silent Night

I've just finished recording, mixing, and mastering my version of Silent Night, and I'm in the process of posting it all around the Internet for your holiday listening pleasure!

You can check it out at the official myspace site:

http://www.myspace.com/sonicdeviant

Happy Christma-hanukk-wanza!

Composing in Iraq

I've returned from my hellish travels abroad. One might be inclined to believe that an Iraqi winter is a mild experience in contrast with Iraqi summers, but though the temperatures moderate considerably, the monsoon season turns everything that isn't paved into a soupy morass. In short it was a miserable experience, except for the wonderful friends I made and the terrific Cuban puros I indulged in. I won't even discuss the mortar attacks; some things are better left unsaid.

So we smoked a lot of cigars to pass the time (there are few better pastimes). I've been accepted for graduate school funding; now I must get accepted to graduate school. Let's hope all goes well.

I wrote a lot of music in Iraq, but I'm not sure when I'll publish it. Everything comes down to time.