Dalton to the Death

I think when all is said and done, if we want our music to be taken seriously, we may need to rename our band "Dalton to the Death."

Harmonica

I have a harmonica now with a "How to" CD. I need to make some songs with that and my guitar. It's been awhile.

playing with wizard power

This song is stuck right now. It may need an inspirational moment to be completed. Still, it's a showoff of what Sambo Yojimbo is doing when it's not doing too much.

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sonata is final for now

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a few pics from recording

Track-laying for the Raingutter Sonata
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Father Luke and Son Cole5

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The Raingutter Sonata

This piece is pretty near completion. I may fix my singing to not be dual voice, and I may work on a few proper bridges, but it may as well be a final song on an album. Thanks to the Dalton family for putting their guitar (Luke) and their voice (Hayley) into it.
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ride that new wave

let's get a fresh scent wafting on these breeze. this be a teaser promo for the new song tentatively named dream ninja or wizard power? my mic is lent out for another day plus i ain't no lyrics at this point, so the ice block sound effect is filling in the vocals section and the piano is feeling like itself again. if your name is kevin walker or you just don't like to be teased, then don't click the houndbite.
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apologies to sambo yojimbo

Luke, here's the one song that I am so sick of hearing and working with. Also, I figured something out about the way drum loops work on garageband—and it basically means that there are more drum tracks available than I thought, except that we recorded it at too fast a tempo to use them. I guess I've learned relatively a lot about recording in 2008, sorry that it has come at the expense of my brother and my dad.
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update B4 march

Mostly to Luke:
Last recording weekend was good, but mostly in the way that it helped me learn some new rules and regs for recording so that future sessions can be more productive. I will hopefully get a new version of Less Than Love, or 4-Slyce never had it so nice, up soon. I definitely think I have some good keyboard flair coming on for it.

As for Tonight at Craig's. I must admit I think I like the song without guitar. Once I get Hayee to sing the girl part I'll see. The guitar seemed to work well with the singing but I didn't like how it went with the song as a whole. That gave me the idea that it would be cool to have two versions of the song (keyboard and guitar). So you should think about having a version that is just guitar (and fake drums) with you singing. I think that would be cool, since the guitar vs. the keyboard is pretty starkly different. What do you think about that idea?

I'll post some audio soonish for you to base opinions on.
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The Les Victim March

Another take on an old song. I've gotta say, it's not my favorite version. But it's progress in the sense that it gets me closer to the sequencing that I would like to call final.
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written and performed by melon dalton

Simple Notions


The Wall (Closer to Me)


The Man


Good for You


The Shimmering Fields


What Can I Do?

streaming?? you gotta be dreaming!!

So, I think this is A-OK. No more music videos unless I feel like it. (Same song as below, what's important is that it's a streamed, straight mp3.)

sweet direct, directed

I spent my weekend working this out. Now alls it really needs is (big-time) Luke to write a guitar part for it and play it, and it also needs Luke and girl to sing their parts instead of me. I'm pretty happy with it; I hope the recording quality shows at least at all in this youtuber.



Notes:
• The dual voice that you hear is my attempt at stereo with one mic (i.e. I sang each part twice—once into the left input and once into the right input—the syncing could be better)

• Drum tracks make me feel like I'm not a real musician. Also I guess I've never felt like a real musician anyway—except in my marching band outfit. The drums are obviously not real drums on this song.

• There are a few other singing mistakes/imperfections on this song that I will wait to change for when we have guitar and girl.

• The direct TRS line from my keyboard to preamp worked great, but it also worked like the singing (for stereo I had to play each part twice).

• After watching the vid, I think the up in quality still shows.

learning! reading! spearminting!

things are slow-going on this here web manifestation of our musical progress, i know. but if you only knew how excited i've been being and getting while reading tim crich's Recording Tips for Engineers: for Cleaner, Brighter Tracks. it is giving me great ideas of how to record the necessary instruments for dalton family music.

tim crich's recording tips should directly affect the recording session that i tentatively have scheduled next week with my father nathan huntington dalton for his life's work of acoustic guitar songs.

and thanks to both zachary ray carr and tim crich i will finally see that a direct line into my computer (or at least into my preamp) will be far superior to MIDI ports that translate to garageband sound effects. that is exciting. the cable i buy for such quality may look like the following:

reinforced crotch stride

this is just that type of stride forward i made the other night with a cold voice. the format is getting pretty close, of course we are still waiting for the right moment to inject some emotional guitar. and no sitcom ending! but also kind of no ending.

And enjoy some pictures stolen from hanyon's wedding bash.

*see if you can tell which parts are designed to be sung by a girl.

sound booth

This is what the sambo yojimbo sound booth recording closet looks like from standing in the doorway with a camera.

somebody stop me

i feel like someone should tell the story of how i'm already re-creating that song posted below with the necessary improvements. It has already earned an excellent new vocal part that features a boy-girl singing dialogue. It's gonna be great. Not that I'm disappointed in that first draft below (though I am a bit embarrassed and amused by the sitcom ending, that may need to go).