waltertore
2019 posts
Feb 25, 2012
12:30 PM
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Sometimes people ask me how can I keep recording myself so many hours a day and stay inspired? The short answer is because recording my music inspires me to keep making music. On a bit longer answer it allows me to hear how I acutally sound. The better quality one is recorded on, the more one can hear if their sound is really satifying to them. I am continaually aiming at sounding good enough to statify myself. Poor quality recordings mask the jist of what this is al about. The deep, little things, that can really make you smile or frown on your playing are lost on poor quality recordings. Having the gear to capture spontaneously created music allows me to hear how musical I am. No thinking to fall back on. Just unfiltered stuff coming out. I am about the musicality of the sound over focusing on specific techniques/aspects.
Rehearsed music just doesn't take me to the same place anymore that spontaneous music does. It is a great high to follow the song as a listener, a performer, and also become the song via feeling it all. I walk into the character like a time traveler does in the movies. I feel heroin going in my arm as a young child overdoses on the ghetto streets, yet I am the performer and when the song ends I come back into my studio. No traveling, lugging gear, bad gigs, start/stop when I want, etc. A very cool feeling to be all these experiences at once and never leave my property! I am the luckiest man alive to have made it to the point of having the facility to exercise all this in!
Here is a set of just vocals and acoustic harp- the most naked of all ways to perform. You hear it all the good and bad and most importantly how musical you are. The harps are stock marine bands. I added reverb to the sound to simulate what I consider to be the perfect sounding room for acoustic harp/vocals.
beware of my love
Id on't want anyone to see me cry
everyday gonna try harder than yesterday
what makes a man overdose
everyday we die a little more
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
3,700+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Feb 25, 2012 5:25 PM
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The Gloth
631 posts
Feb 25, 2012
9:21 AM
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"Everyday we die a little more" is really great, I love it !
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jodanchudan
535 posts
Feb 25, 2012
5:36 PM
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I agree - great track.
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waltertore
2020 posts
Feb 26, 2012
5:07 AM
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thanks guys! I am off to the studio. My acoustic guitar is calling me to do some stuff with the racked harp minus the drums. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
3,700+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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waltertore
2025 posts
Feb 27, 2012
5:18 PM
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I pulled out my stock 30 year old 14 hole marine band in C and did some vocal harp numbers. I love the sound of these harps and I like to do runs up to the top that I know are technically wrong but sound musically right to my ears. Here they are. Walter
ball and chain
communication
ready to boogie the town
staying with the acoustic format I did these with my 1938 kalamazoo acoustic guitar and rack harp.
an old guitar tells its story
born addicted
life in a prison
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
3,700+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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waltertore
2035 posts
Mar 02, 2012
6:54 PM
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here are a couple from tonight using a stock marine band in G. Walter
don't push me
will you ever change your ways
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
3,800+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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