Falling rain jig (electric rawk)

headphones on? falling rain, electric rawk remix.

Falling rain jig (old timey)

From English hymn to African-American spiritual to Fahey acoustic guitar blues to christmas carol to jazz piano to cabaret to falling rain version, another improvised arrangement on a theme.

G clef piano part arranged for ukulele and voice

Might also post this without my voice, because though the strums and plucks can be labored, there’s a reasonably successful set of parts, lead, counterpoint, bass, and chords all overdubbed by machines of loving grace.

No East or West (classic-rock uke take)

Add to my vocal take and Cecil’s sepulchral midi piano take (the “15-foot Christian” one) this reasonably crisp run-through of the melody on ukulele, processed to sound like electric guitar.
Note the hymn originally had a right-boring Anglican melody called St. Peter and this version is set to an African-American spiritual, hence its lovely pentatonic goodness.
Now I should compare the chords Cecil derived from my vocals to the chords of some sheet music I found online recently, which I’m trying to transcribe for my tenor uke.

Let's get Meta-phiz-sick-ill

metaphizickillin’
great tase
less filling when i’m chill’n
dissing bob dylan*
while my radiator’s illin’
*see remix nightmare (land of toil and bluff mix), see also Metaphysical home[sic] Blooz Nos. 12 and 35 if only because of the stoopit name. And plus that’s what this post is about to, almost forgot.

Postcartesian Metaphysical Home[sic] Blues

Not knowing the real words to the Wesley-esque hymn transmitted to me through John Fahey’s Skip James-loving hands, I’ve made up some postcartesian lyrics of my own. Here’s a reference vocal take of all the verses.

No Outside

Cecil found the chords underlying my vocal, and has developed them in a new direction. I am having trouble matching his time (swing, swing) but it’s fun trying on this take of No Outside.

Or Outside

Cecil put his moneymaker where his If Jesus were an a capella song about himself, I’d like to think this is the song he’d be is.

In X

Here’s a vocal in search of some instrumental accompaniment in the obligatory MP3 as well as the (possibly more Cakewalk friendly?) AIFF format.