Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
One of my long-standing goals is to front a traditional/country band called Matthew Gruman & the [Something] [Something]. In the meantime, I have saturday afternoons to play with.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
The worst part about covering Tom Waits songs is making the choice between ever listening to the original again, and self-esteem.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Last winter a kitchen accident resulted in a “distal fingertip amputation” (i.e. I cut off a small part of my finger). So I made some math music on a keyboard.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
My niece’s harmonica skills aren’t up to par yet, so I jammed with her phone message.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
I made this today—hope you like it! I had a lot of fun making it.
The first album I ever owned was touch by The Eurythmics. I was 6 or 7 and had never heard them before, but I was obsessed with the cover and against my Mom’s advice, I insisted.
For years, I absolutely hated it but I wouldn’t let anyone know to save face. When my friends and I would do lip synchs in the backyard, I’d always do this one or “Sweet Dreams” and pretended that I liked it. It is undoubtably the most disliked album I’ve ever been completely familiar with.
When I moved out of Lower Sackville at age 13, I hid it in the basement floor so I wouldn’t ever have to listen to it again. “I don’t know where it is!” I’d feign every time my Mom or brother asked about it.
As I got older, I began to like the band and just last week decided to learn this song. I spent a couple hours this afternoon recording—hope you like it!
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Yo brother…where have you been???
I want to connect with you…
DeeBee Ital feat MC Robotman…
we can be like Kanye West and Daft Punk…hahahha
Get back to me mang…
Last year, I had this great idea to be a robotic MC and make hip hop music. I did one full track, a few beats, and got a hold of the perfect voice synthesizer software. I even made a MySpace account, made up a backstory, and started collecting friends for “collaborations”. Then my free time disappeared and “robot MC” wasn’t a big priority anymore.
But, I still got fan mail from an Ontario MC named DeeBee Ital; I think I replied as a robot. I thought it was absolutely hilarious and assumed he was in on the joke. Anyway, I logged in today for the first time in about a year and he’d written the above comment. I think he’s serious.
Photo Credit: ChartAttack.
Gordon Downie
Into The Night
*note* It sounds more like the record if you make the C chords as 8th fret barres (8 10 10 9 8 8), or add a high G (x 3 2 0 1 3).
F
I saw you running with your friends
G
I called your name too loud - 'come back'
F
so many times it might have been embarrassing
G
if you hadn't come walking back
C
F
Here's where I shook you by the shoulders
G
shoved you up against a truck - 'what's up'
F
it was a picture of someone getting older
G
and of someone growing up
C
A C
someone growing up
A C
someone growing up
A G
someone growing up
C
F
it was like you were in disguise
G
you were so nonchalant - 'come on'
F
as though your well half-lidded eyes said,
G
'what the hell do you want?'
C
F
Well I must've said something
G
for you to feel I was alright - 'alright'
F
We had a great conversation
G
that went on well into the night
C
A C
went on well into the night
A C
went on well into the night
A G
went on well into the night
C
went on well into the night
Tabbed by Matthew Gruman
http://matthewgruman.com
Photo Credit: Pregnant Without Intercourse.
The intro part of this is very jangly, so just bash at the strings with your heart’s desire.
Gordon Downie
11th Fret
*note* For the intro, play the E5 as x799xx and the Emaj7(no 3rd) as x798xx.
Don't worry about hitting the open strings, it sounds good if you just bang at it.
Intro:
E5 Emaj7(no 3rd) E5 E5
A E
So this is fucking off by degrees and
A E
I suppose we turned out to be not-quite-Hawaii but
A B
I can float back to sleep cause at least you're lying to me like
A
music that dances from glowing apartments as
E
shadows entwine into a creamy darkness like
A
jewelry hung down from rich silhouettes
E B
portrays on the sidewalk where wetness reflects all the
A
colours of evening and the onset of lights
B E
like the promise of nothing, sweet nothing, tonight.
B
Ahhhhh
C E C E C B
E
A E
So this is enacting ecstasy and
A E
I suppose we turned out to be bathroom graffiti but
A B
I can float back to sleep cause at least you're lying to me like
A
shoveling hope into the infinite us til the
E
world surges in yelling, 'this is a drug bust'
A
might turn up the heat and make us into one person
E B
but then the temperature plunges and the predicament worsens
E
til we're a fleck of new snow on the eyelash of a cow
B
and we melt away, melt away,
E
now
B
Ahhhhhh
C E
C E
Melt away melt away now
C B
Melt away melt away now
Melt away now
E
*During the bridge, you can play this as the lead:
g|-5-7-9-11-12-11-12-14-16-|
It is repeated 3x with a variation at the end
Tabbed by Matthew Gruman
http://matthewgruman.com
Still unsatisfied with static music videos, the Arcade Fire have gone and made another incredible interactive video for their new single, “Black Mirror”.