We played a free concert in a city park last Saturday afternoon. I haven’t played a gig this large in 20 years or so, and it was a lot of fun. I was proud of my kids performing with me and holding their own on their instruments. About half of our set was original music […]
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Johann’s Notes This song is a cover of the song, “Gethsemane,” by Melanie Hoffman (sheet music). This song is also a 2021 update of a cover I had already made on the song 5 years ago. When I made my 2016 cover, I used no metronome, no auto tuning software, no music sheet, and no […]
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A playlist of all our songs from 2020.
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Instrumental cover of a song by Derek Hugger.
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A parody of “Leaving, On a Jet Plane” about returning to public school during a pandemic.
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An original song sequenced in LMMS with sounds programmed from scratch in the ZynAddSubFX software synthesizer.
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Here is an awesome song written by one of my kids, E-Sandy. He is the one who played organ on The Beach is Closed. He has been playing this song on the piano for a long time, and I really like his synth adaptation. Download mp3
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I have some musically talented kids, and I wanted to give them a place to post their tunes for all the world to admire. So I made them an album page on this site called SkullToast, and we will post their songs as fast as they can finish them. Where did the name “SkullToast” come […]
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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 […]
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