MeFi Music

This short (1:16) instrumental ditty is what happened when I started learning a new recording platform that came with loops of instruments I'd always wanted to play or include on my recordings: pedal steel guitar (I was super excited about this especially -- I've wanted to work with pedal steel for a really long time), baritone guitar, and mandolin. And did I mention the bossa drums? Not sure if I went overboard but I had fun and liked the result. [more inside]
posted by rangefinder 1.4 on Dec 30, 2018 - 6 comments

In the past couple of weeks, I found myself going back to a piece that I'd started working on a few years ago -- probably because it's in a slower triple meter that's somewhat calming for me. This is a condensed one-minute version, featuring piano and guitar, for the 60 Seconds and Under #2 MeFi Music Challenge. [more inside]
posted by rangefinder 1.4 on Nov 23, 2016 - 3 comments

...cuts like harp strings.
posted by dagosto on Nov 22, 2013 - 7 comments

If you let your imagination drift towards southeastern Europe, somewhere wedged between Fellini's Italy and Emir Kusturica's Balkans, and then you put such wanderings into a soundtrack, this is likely what you would end up with - Balkanofellini :) [more inside]
posted by Brodyaga on May 6, 2013 - 1 comment

an instrumental song with acoustic guitar, harmonica, samples, birds, drums and beats.
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo on Feb 22, 2011 - 3 comments

The second song I recorded after this one.
posted by tmcw on Dec 23, 2010 - 2 comments

A new instrumental song. [more inside]
posted by tmcw on Dec 22, 2010 - 2 comments

Traditional old-time fiddle tune in D, instrumental clawhammer banjo & guitar. [more inside]
posted by usonian on Nov 18, 2009 - 9 comments

A short arrangement for solo banjo of the stunning Gilbert & Sullivan tune from The Pirates of Penzance. [more inside]
posted by The White Hat on Feb 7, 2009 - 9 comments

Instrumental banjo waltz, written this afternoon. [more inside]
posted by The White Hat on Oct 26, 2008 - 16 comments

Another acoustic, instrumental tune. This is the first track I've made in GarageBand (my Ubuntu machine died hard last week).
posted by tmcw on Jun 16, 2008 - 5 comments

The English folk tune Kingsfold rendered very simply in synths. Incidentally, it is also the tune to the hymn I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, and almost identical to the Irish folk song, Star of County Down. The melody occurs elsewhere in European folk music, I believe.
posted by nthdegx on May 14, 2008 - 5 comments

Early morning front porch music... [more inside]
posted by Pecinpah on Mar 31, 2008 - 2 comments