Here are tablatures for my tracks on Pity Party:
And here they are in MuseScore format. Enjoy!
Pity Party
A new mini-album by Tom and Alan Sanderson
I shared a couple of these songs last week in a post, and now the full album is complete. Head over to the main album page for detailed production notes and downloads. (more…)
Sneak Preview: Going Viral, The Beach is Closed
I am currently working on a musical collaboration with my cousin Tom, but I have gotten some requests to share a couple of these tracks more widely while we still work on the others. The project is a collection of songs about the pandemic.
“Going Viral” is the first recording to really showcase my new guitar, an Ibanez semi-hollow body. I just love the sounds that come out of this thing! One of my sons (the one who did The Ballad of the California Gold Rush) played bass on the track. (more…)
Lost and Found Videos
After making the Learn for Myself video I decided to post the Lost and Found album to YouTube also. You can find the album playlist here. Most of the videos are simple, with just the album artwork, but I felt that Song for Evelyn deserved something better. Here it is:
Learn for Myself
Here is my latest recording, a new song called “Learn for Myself.” I decided to try something new, and make a music video.
Download: audio (mp3), lyrics & chords (pdf), tablature (pdf)
The Ballad of the California Gold Rush
One of my kids is studying US history in school this year, and decided to write and record a folk song about the California gold rush of 1849 for a school assignment. Of course I helped him with it. The actual assignment was to make something about the Westward Expansion, and it could have been a poster, drawing, a class presentation, or rewriting the lyrics to a song. He really went the extra mile on this one, and I hope he gets extra credit. The song is based on The Ballad of Sally Anne, a Mark O’ Conner recording on the album The New Nashville Cats.
This was a 100% Linux production: Ardour, Dragonfly Reverb, Calf Studio Gear, AVL Drumkits, and x42 Plugins, on Linux Mint 19.3. I did the guitars, bass, and mandolin, and he did the vocals, drums, and piano synth programming. He also did most of the mixing and mastering, with a little coaching.
I’m super proud of my little geek boy! (more…)
Come Walk With Me
Last fall I met up with Michael Willis, developer of the Dragonfly Reverb plugins, to record a song he wrote. Michael had already programmed half of the song in midi tracks and recorded the clarinet intro, so I added the guitar and bass parts. A few weeks later we met again and finished these tracks to the end of the song, including the clarinet solo. (more…)
