Originals
Original songs by Tony
Sand Crabs
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PROJECT: School Projects |
| WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Ethnic Percussion, Strings, Zourna, Oud, Saz, Sitar | |
| GENRE: Action Movie Desert Chase | |
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NOTES: This is another I song I made for my Intro to Music Apps class from my Spring 2011 semester. This time the project was to use instruments from Logic to create a song. I said SCREW THAT and took a few loops and made something on Cubase on my own gear. This song was actually written with a storyline in mind. Imagine you are Liam Neeson, once again as a CIA Operative or assassin or other guy with a super vague background that knows martial arts and shit (like he is in every movie). You are in a cliche middle eastern setting. Now listen to the song.
0:00-The scene comes into focus and you’re in a persian market. There are people selling blankets and fruits, and a little kid trying to peddle you VHS duplicates of sitcoms shown on UPN in the 90′s. You’re amused by this and go on your way WHEN… It doesn’t even matter if you like Liam Neeson. Imagine yourself as Daniel Craig, Matt Damon, Jason Statham, Keanu Reeves circa 1999 (well, maybe that’s pushing it)…doesn’t make a difference. You’re a hollywood badass who kicks ass, takes names, and knows 47 different ways to kill a man with an ironing board. |
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Funk in 60ish Seconds
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PROJECT: School Projects |
| WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Funky Synth, Piano, Rhodes, Bass, Drums | |
| GENRE: FAWNK | |
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NOTES: This may not be an official Punchfest track, but it sure feels like one, and it was made in much the same way. During the Spring 2011 semester at school I was enrolled in a “Intro to Music Apps” class where we learned how to operate Pro Tools and Logic Pro, and the projects included making various tunes. This is one of the songs I made. I made it during a single 75 minute class period while teaching myself Pro Tools at the same time…and not to mention teaching myself to hit all the right keys on the keyboard! I’ll probably make this into a full song with real instruments sometime.
All instruments played live (drums 50% live) using instruments found in Pro Tools. |
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8.5 Second Death Warning
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PROJECT: Death Themes |
| WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Strings, Brass, Percussion, Noise | |
| GENRE: Orchestral Noise | |
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NOTES: What if you had a warning telling you when you were about to die? What if you knew how much time you had before you die? What if it was 8.5 seconds? I know what I would do. Hopefully, I would be in a very crowded public place, like a bus or in a school. Then, from out of nowhere, I’d have this sound start blaring at ear-deafening levels. I would shriek at the top of my lungs and thrash around, right before I burst into a blaze of flaming glory and set at least 15 people on fire.
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Carystas
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PROJECT: Original |
| WRITTEN AND SEQUENCED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Atmospheres, Synths, Strings, Ney Flute, Various Percussion | |
| GENRE: Ethnic Orchestra | |
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NOTES: This is an original tune I originally wrote for the Composition Combat competition at remixsite.org, until I found out how stupid the voting system was going to be. Well…at least I got a new song out of it. E.S. Posthumous style using my Orchestra libraries. It’s still in somewhat of a draft format, but I wont be completing it for a while. |
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The Fatties Battle for the Mushroom Donuts at the Honky Tonk Fiesta
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THEME: “It's like going to a fat convention wearing a chainmail of donuts.” – Mattew Pollard |
| WRITTEN, PERFORMED AND SEQUENCED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Fiddle, Bass, Drums, Piano Synth, Percussion, Acoustic Bass, Honky Tonk Piano, Goofy Muted Brass | |
| PROJECT: Kwakfest | |
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NOTES: Kwakfest is a periodic competition where musicians (at variable degrees of intoxication) gather in an IRC room, and given a theme, need to create a MIDI song in 1 hour. It’s quite intense. This is my second Kwakfest. Most of my Kwakfests feature mucho copy&pasting, 1000 genres and break neck transitions.
The tempo change in the beginning didn’t exactly work out like I wanted it to…hmm…
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Santa Kwak
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THEME: Hot Dogs Serving Hot Dogs to Hot Dogs |
| WRITTEN, PERFORMED AND SEQUENCED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Fiddle, Bass, Drums, Clavinet | |
| PROJECT: Kwakfest | |
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Actual title is “Santa Claus Plays with his Weiner“. NOTES: Kwakfest is a periodic competition where musicians (at variable degrees of intoxication) gather in an IRC room, and given a theme, need to create a MIDI song in 1 hour. It’s quite intense. This is my first Kwakfest. Most of my Kwakfests feature mucho copy&pasting, 1000 genres and break neck transitions. |
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Acoustic Serenade
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PROJECT: Shadow Cast/Originals |
| WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Acoustic Guitars, Rhythm Guitars, Lead Guitars, Bass, Drums, Piano, Synthesizers, Various Latin Percussion | |
| GENRE: Latin/Fusion/Shred | |
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NOTES: The reason why this song is listed as both an original and a Shadow Cast song is because it was inspired by and written for Shadow Cast, but clearly the musical style did not fit, so it just became an original tune. I recently sat down to finally finish this song after putting it off for god knows how long, when I started cracking down on the work, my Berklee audition was coming up, and I really wanted to show it to the Berklee team. I borrowed an acoustic guitar from a friend to record the acoustic guitar parts, but I didn’t have it long enough to record lead parts. Lead guitar parts are played on some pretty dead strings, but time constraints didn’t allow me otherwise. |
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Prelude
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PROJECT: Shadow Cast |
| WRITTEN AND SEQUENCED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Strings, Low Brass, Choir, Piano, Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Glockenspiel, Cymbals | |
| GENRE: Dark Classical | |
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POSTED June 26th, 2008 NOTES: This song is very very old, just so you know. This song was meant to be the opener to an album and also has a corresponding closer song. |
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Preserved Moose
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PROJECT: Preserved Moose |
| WRITTEN BY: Tony Dickinson, Mike Morgado – PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums | |
| GENRE: METUHL | |
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POSTED June 26th, 2008 NOTES: This was originally written by my Candian friend, Mike Morgado. I took the little bit he wrote and made it METUHL. Unfortunately, Mike dissapeared off of the face of the earth and I haven’t talked to him in well over a year. He is missing and presumed dead. This song also features another one of my only vocal performances! This one’s for you, you damn Candian. Talk to me when you finally get your MSN working again. |
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Sublimation of Thought
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PROJECT: River of Sequestration |
| WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Synth | |
| GENRE: Smooth Groove | |
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POSTED June 26th, 2008 NOTES: This song was written for an online forum guitar solo competition. Being that the forum was on a Metal board, I wanted to write a backing track that would force the participants to venture outside their comfort zones a little bit. Almost all of the backing tracks that had been in competitions in the past were the same crappy blues-shred tracks. This one is much, much different. I will be expanding upon this a little more so there will be lead melodies instead of it sounding like just a backing track. |
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