Tune A Day http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday A music sketchpad Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:07:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 I\'m writing and recording a tune every day. This is them. A music sketchpad Jon Ward http://tuneaday.org/Tune-a-day-square.jpgTune A Dayhttp://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday tune day original music no Jon Ward tuneaday@radiorice.com Eighty-six http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/11/eighty-six/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/11/eighty-six/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:37:06 +0000 Jon http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=212 Bit dreamy and off my head after working nights. When I wrote this I did it singing in Ivor Cutler’s voice but when I tried to record it like that I discovered that I simply am not as good as he was at singing, so I had to change it back to my usual weedy voice.

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/11/eighty-six/feed/ 0 <p>Bit dreamy and off my head after working nights. When I wrote this I did it singing in Ivor Cutler’s voice but when I tried to record it like that I discovered that I simply am not as good as he was at singing, so I had to change it back to my usual weedy voice.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/eightysix.mp3">Download audio file (eightysix.mp3)</a><br /></p> Bit dreamy and off my head after working nights. When I wrote this I did it singing in Ivor Cutler’s voice but when I tried to record it like that I discovered that I simply am not as good as he was at singing, so I had to change it back to my [...] Eighty-four http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/10/eighty-four/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/10/eighty-four/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:06:48 +0000 Jon http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=207 If you’ve ever seen Peter Greenaway’s excellent Drowning By Numbers you’ll recognise the idea of enemies gathering under the water-tower. If you haven’t, you could think of it as a metaphor for bad Karma.

I wrote this track in bright sunshine, at midday. I recorded it hours later in the middle of the night. Weirdly I wrote it about someone else but listening now it could just as easily be about me!

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/10/eighty-four/feed/ 0 <p><a href="http://http://petergreenaway.org.uk/drowning.htm"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-209" title="tower" src="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tower.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>If you’ve ever seen Peter Greenaway’s excellent <em>Drowning By Numbers</em> you’ll recognise the idea of enemies gathering under the water-tower. If you haven’t, you could think of it as a metaphor for bad Karma.</p> <p>I wrote this track in bright sunshine, at midday. I recorded it hours later in the middle of the night. Weirdly I wrote it about someone else but listening now it could just as easily be about me!</p> <p><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/eightyfourmix.mp3">Download audio file (eightyfourmix.mp3)</a><br /></p> If you’ve ever seen Peter Greenaway’s excellent Drowning By Numbers you’ll recognise the idea of enemies gathering under the water-tower. If you haven’t, you could think of it as a metaphor for bad Karma. I wrote this track in bright [...] Eighty-three http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/08/eighty-three/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/08/eighty-three/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:54:27 +0000 Jon http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=205 Awwww. I didn’t hardly spend any time at all on yesterday’s one, so I’ve made a bit more of an effort today specially for you! I thought I’d write something about a subject which songwriters tend to ignore – how sad it is when you break up with someone. It’s called “Sad Night”.

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/08/eighty-three/feed/ 2 <p>Awwww. I didn’t hardly spend any time at all on yesterday’s one, so I’ve made a bit more of an effort today specially for you! I thought I’d write something about a subject which songwriters tend to ignore – how sad it is when you break up with someone. It’s called “Sad Night”.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/eightythree.mp3">Download audio file (eightythree.mp3)</a><br /> </p> Awwww. I didn’t hardly spend any time at all on yesterday’s one, so I’ve made a bit more of an effort today specially for you! I thought I’d write something about a subject which songwriters tend to ignore – how sad it is when you break [...] Eighty-two http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/07/eighty-two/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/07/eighty-two/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:54:00 +0000 Jon http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=203 This not sleeping is getting beyond a joke. Plus I saw the ballet Romeo and Juliet today which kind of put me off everything.

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/07/eighty-two/feed/ 2 <p>This not sleeping is getting beyond a joke. Plus I saw the ballet Romeo and Juliet today which kind of put me off everything.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/eightytwo.mp3">Download audio file (eightytwo.mp3)</a><br /></p> This not sleeping is getting beyond a joke. Plus I saw the ballet Romeo and Juliet today which kind of put me off everything. Download audio file (eightytwo.mp3) Seventy-nine http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/04/seventy-nine/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/04/seventy-nine/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:51:51 +0000 Jon http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=197 I went to a book club meeting for the first time ever today. We talked about this and that, analysing the work in question. So here’s what this song means.

Ha ha cluster bombs are the devastating munitions that a friend of mine uses on MSN. It goes:

Me: Now you’re just being insensitive

Her: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

The rest of the song is obvious and self-explanatory.

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/04/seventy-nine/feed/ 0 <p>I went to a book club meeting for the first time ever today. We talked about this and that, analysing the work in question. So here’s what this song means.</p> <p><em>Ha ha cluster bombs</em> are the devastating munitions that a friend of mine uses on MSN. It goes:</p> <blockquote><p>Me: Now you’re just being insensitive</p> <p>Her: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!</p></blockquote> <p>The rest of the song is obvious and self-explanatory.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/seventynine.mp3">Download audio file (seventynine.mp3)</a><br /></p> I went to a book club meeting for the first time ever today. We talked about this and that, analysing the work in question. So here’s what this song means. Ha ha cluster bombs are the devastating munitions that a friend of mine uses on MSN. It [...] Seventy-seven http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/02/seventy-seven/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/02/seventy-seven/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:41:07 +0000 Jon http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=193 Back refreshed and sunburned I went to the music shop to buy strings and ended up buying my first ever guitar (I’ve been learning on a borrowed one). It’s from Canada and isn’t a semi-acoustic like I thought I wanted to get, just a boring old electric-acoustic.

Anyway, you know how you get one tune for free whenever you buy a new instrument? It just comes popping out when you sit down. Well, this is that.

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/02/seventy-seven/feed/ 0 <p>Back refreshed and sunburned I went to the music shop to buy strings and ended up buying my first ever guitar (I’ve been learning on a borrowed one). It’s from Canada and isn’t a semi-acoustic like I thought I wanted to get, just a boring old electric-acoustic.</p> <p>Anyway, you know how you get one tune for free whenever you buy a new instrument? It just comes popping out when you sit down. Well, this is that.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/seventyseven.mp3">Download audio file (seventyseven.mp3)</a><br /></p> Back refreshed and sunburned I went to the music shop to buy strings and ended up buying my first ever guitar (I’ve been learning on a borrowed one). It’s from Canada and isn’t a semi-acoustic like I thought I wanted to get, just a boring old [...] Seventy-six http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/01/seventy-six/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/01/seventy-six/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:38:21 +0000 Mike http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=191 This is my final track of the week.  I never managed to get it off the ground.  Thanks Jon you’ve helped stop me footering about and actually finish something for a change.

 

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/06/01/seventy-six/feed/ 3 <p>This is my final track of the week.  I never managed to get it off the ground.  Thanks Jon you’ve helped stop me footering about and actually finish something for a change.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/sunday.mp3">Download audio file (sunday.mp3)</a><br /></p> This is my final track of the week.  I never managed to get it off the ground.  Thanks Jon you’ve helped stop me footering about and actually finish something for a change.   Download audio file (sunday.mp3) Seventy-five http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/05/31/seventy-five/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/05/31/seventy-five/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 23:31:34 +0000 Mike http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=186 I’d never have imagined when I started writing this song that it would end up sounding like something Bill Bailey does a very funny version of.  Thanks to Kumru for the backing vocal.

 

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/05/31/seventy-five/feed/ 0 <p>I’d never have imagined when I started writing this song that it would end up sounding like something Bill Bailey does a very funny version of.  Thanks to Kumru for the backing vocal.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="underline;"><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/saturday-21.mp3"></a><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/saturday-3.mp3">Download audio file (saturday-3.mp3)</a><br /></span></p> I’d never have imagined when I started writing this song that it would end up sounding like something Bill Bailey does a very funny version of.  Thanks to Kumru for the backing vocal.   Download audio file (saturday-3.mp3) Seventy-four http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/05/30/seventy-four/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/05/30/seventy-four/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 23:47:14 +0000 Mike http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=183 This started off as a list of words concerned with current news which I then freely associated on…..I didn’t think it was going to go anywhere and I almost abandoned it but somehow mid evening it turned around and came out quite nicely. 

 

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/05/30/seventy-four/feed/ 1 <p>This started off as a list of words concerned with current news which I then freely associated on…..I didn’t think it was going to go anywhere and I almost abandoned it but somehow mid evening it turned around and came out quite nicely. </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="underline;"><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/friday.mp3"></a><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/friday-2.mp3">Download audio file (friday-2.mp3)</a><br /></span></p> This started off as a list of words concerned with current news which I then freely associated on…..I didn’t think it was going to go anywhere and I almost abandoned it but somehow mid evening it turned around and came out quite [...] Seventy-three http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/05/29/seventy-three/ http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/05/29/seventy-three/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 23:24:15 +0000 Mike http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/?p=180 Almost the antithesis of yesterdays track.  It seems to me a peculiar thing that after I’ve spent time writing a song I then have to spend more time learning it.  As a result the arrangement of this was rather hastily done.

 

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]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/2008/05/29/seventy-three/feed/ 1 <p>Almost the antithesis of yesterdays track.  It seems to me a peculiar thing that after I’ve spent time writing a song I then have to spend more time learning it.  As a result the arrangement of this was rather hastily done.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.ditdotdat.org/tuneaday/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/thursday-2.mp3">Download audio file (thursday-2.mp3)</a><br /></p> Almost the antithesis of yesterdays track.  It seems to me a peculiar thing that after I’ve spent time writing a song I then have to spend more time learning it.  As a result the arrangement of this was rather hastily done.   Download audio [...]