Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 12 (L) - Link Wray

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 12 (L) - Link Wray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEmDLQKrrk

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 11 (K) - Kenny Ball

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Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 11 (K) - Kenny Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SD6qQWxMrM

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 10 (J) - Jimmy Smith

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 10 (J) - Jimmy Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gobKu4UlxSA

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 9 (I) - The Incredible String Band

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 9 (I) - The Incredible String Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3vWQY7k3zs

The Birds

I watched 'The Real T-Rex (with Chris Packham)', which included looking at how you could simulate a T-Rex sound with modern animals. I thought it might be an interesting project to do something similar with bird sounds.

I recorded some bird sounds early in the morning with my TASCAM recorder.

Then, in Audacity, I isolated some bird sounds and put some special effects on them, such as pitch shifting and delays.

I used a lot of bass to give an 'eerie dinosaur' effect, because birds (supposedly!) evolved from dinosaurs.

WARNING!! Track includes low bass and stereo panning so use headphones or quality speakers for optimum 'eerie dinosaur' effect!

WARNING 2!!! If you are scared by 'eerie dinosaur' effects, do NOT use headphones or quality speakers!

https://soundcloud.com/samsswingnskank/the-birds

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 8 (H) - Half Man Half Biscuit

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 8 (H) - Half Man Half Biscuit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZxkErDC16A

Devi Ever Hyperion Fuzz Clone

A quick demo on my Devi Ever Hyperion Fuzz Clone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeI2sa2uRvM

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 7 (G) - The Groundhogs

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 7 (G) - The Groundhogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2uqM7OfH8

Gudbuy t'Jane

For a school holiday activity, we had to listen to a video an adult liked when they were young and listen to it with them. What better than Slade! My dad has the original Slayed? LP and Gudbuy t'Jane 45, so I played it on my keyboard whilst listening to it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxxxx!

[EDIT] I had a 'copyright claim on my Youtube video so I have deleted it, because I don't want greedy people making money from my work, and have put the audio on Soundcloud instead.

https://soundcloud.com/samsswingnskank/gudbuy

Frantone Brooklyn Overdrive

Quick Frantone Brooklyn demo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb0q2MDLUHc

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 6 (F) - Freddie King

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 6 (F) - Freddie King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuYR_WXulYg

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 5 (E) - Ernest Tubb

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 5 (E) - Ernest Tubb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnEMOQTh27s

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 4 (D) - Datblygu

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 4 (D) - Datblygu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI7PvBdi0mk

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 3 (C) - Chroma

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 3 (C) - Chroma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjrdHDdR1BA

Mother Goose

More daily practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztDUSgG2cqw

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 2 (B) - The B-52's

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 2 (B) - The B-52's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QSYx4wVQg

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 1 (A) - Adwaith

Sam's A-Z Self-Isolation Playlist - Day 1 (A) - Adwaith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhv6kIS3Dc

Crossroads

Daily blues practice. It's all about practice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEdfloREack

Easter Dance Show!

This is my first public dance show and it was at the local town hall. It was a really good venue with a good stage.

We only practice 20 minutes a week but we put on a great choreographed show.

Pedalboard Complete!

It took an age to finish as Frantone pedals are very expensive and it takes a long time to find them at a reasonable price.

These are the pedals (in sequence):

A clone of a Devi Ever Hyperion Fuzz. Devi Ever used to made the fuzziest fuzz pedals - and this one is super-fuzz, even on the low setting!

A rare Frantone Thunderhead Bass Booster. You can use it as a clean boost or turn the bass boost up to 11 and explode your speakers!

A Frantone Brooklyn Overdrive. Complete with Fran's trademark sound and arguably one of the best overdrives you can get!

A Raygun FX Ghosty modulator, which gives a wharbley, tape delayey, chorusy effect from suttle to crazy ring modulatoresque!

A clone of a Malekko spring reverb to give Dick Dale drippy surf!

All powered by a Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-1 Pro. Frantone pedals need a good, clean power supply and the HB does the job.

Housed in a laptop bag with a homemade wooden board.

I've also got a BOSS ME-25 which is more convenient, so I can keep this for special occasions.

Cool Jerk

This is my Cool Jerk song. The idea started when I did 'Cool Jerk' by 'The Capitols' in the Soul Band at school and thought it would be a great idea to do my own version.

I wanted a minimal version based on the main riff and a drone. I got the drone by using the 'Didgeridoo Thingy' setting on my EHX Ravish Sitar. I did a guitar riff on a Harley Benton Les Paul, through my Frantone Brooklyn overdrive pedal into my Raygun FX Ghosty modulator with spring reverb. I did the bass riff with my Yamaha 5-string bass, through the Frantone Thunderhead with spring reverb.

I kept the vocals minimal by just saying 'Cool Jerk' and got the help of Mademoiselle Google to do the French translation!

Here it is:
https://soundcloud.com/samsswingnskank/cool-jerk

Rock 'n' Roll

School homework!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVIttmFAzek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEmDLQKrrk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HNznSyu4PA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnAQATKRBN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hb9QSGmtqM

Ravish Drone

This is my drone song.

I did it by firstly getting a lot of 'sympathetic' drone sounds of my EHX Electro-Harmonix Ravish Sitar pedal, with just the open low E string on my guitar.

Then I duplicated the main drone (Koto) and adjusted the pitch in Audacity, to reflect a 12 bar blues pattern.

Next, I got the background stereo drones (Bumblebee and Didgeridoo Thingy), reversed one channel of each and then duplicated them throughout the piece.

Finally, I added an Audacity metronome click track in the background.

Use headphones and loop play for best results!

https://soundcloud.com/samsswingnskank/sam-drone

King Blues Mug

Another Christmas present!

A custom printed mug - with the 3 'Kings' (Albert, Freddie and B.B.)!

On an Ernie Ball coaster (1 of 6 I got as another present)!

All from RockStar Guitars.

Cool Wall 2019

Another Christmas present!

12 homemade posters - my 'Cool Wall' extension.

Check them out on Youtube and buy their LP/CDs if you like them.

Albert King, The B-52's, Dick Dale, Ernest Tubb, Freddie King, Janis Joplin, Jethro Tull, Link Wray, Richard Thompson, Shonen Knife, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Slade.