var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-11115133-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @rajeevsingh)http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/284340686/tumblr_kuolcrOnXN1qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>This is a song for classical guitar that I’m working on. It’s called Valse Sem Nome (Waltz Without a Name) and was written by this brilliant Brazilian composer that I’d never heard of until a month or so ago, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden_Powell_de_Aquino">Baden Powell</a>.</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/284340686http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/284340686Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:43:39 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/216518521/tumblr_krq6jihuA51qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Filling The Silence</div> <p>Nice, clean, fun to play sort of thing. Using some basic left-handed tapping to make it interesting.</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/216518521http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/216518521Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:38:00 -0400acousticguitarsongwritingtappingthoundsong sketch<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/216515812/tumblr_krq6dzzD8I1qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Dimebag For Your Thoughts</div> <p>Just a quick set of metal riffs. You can hear <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimebag_Darrell">Dimebag</a> in the verse.</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/216515812http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/216515812Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:34:00 -0400guitarmusic blogmetaldimebag darrell<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/216027868/tumblr_krp123BwhG1qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Not Really Creepy</div> <p>Playing with effects and just going for mood with this <a href="http://www.thounds.com">thound</a>/song sketch.</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/216027868http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/216027868Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:42:00 -0400guitarthoundsong sketch<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/215996548/tumblr_kroyfu4WZk1qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Long Way to Go</div> <p>New thound. This one is pretty tough for me to play right now & it’s going to take some practice. I’ll re-record when I can play it smoother.</p> <p>Don’t know genre to call this one (some subset of jazz?). I’ve actually got a lot of tunes written that have this same feel, so I should probably know this…</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215996548http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215996548Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400guitarthoundsong sketchjazzcleanacoustic<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/215764010/tumblr_krohyuHVwZ1qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Futurescape</div> <p>Latest thound.</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215764010http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215764010Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:49:00 -0400guitarthoundsong sketchcleanacoustic<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/215762666/tumblr_krohtckezp1qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Dancing on Chicken Wire</div> <p>A thound.</p> <p>So I set out to write a delta blues song & somehow ended up with this twangy bluegrass thing that cracks me up…</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215762666http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215762666Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:46:00 -0400guitarthoundsong sketchacousticbluegrass<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/215759448/tumblr_krohi7GCKk1qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Just Give Me 6 More Seconds</div> <p>The time limit on <a href="http://www.thounds.com">thounds.com</a> is 1 minute 20 seconds, by the way. This one cut off on my last note. Thus the title.</p> <p>This song is a lot of fun to play. I like it <em>a lot</em>.</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215759448http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215759448Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:39:00 -0400guitarthoundsong sketchcleanacoustic<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/215758345/tumblr_krohezNLv41qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Rusty Electric</div> <p>Another thound. This is the first time I pulled out my electric in a while. Thus the title.</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215758345http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215758345Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:37:00 -0400guitarthoundsong sketchelectricmetal<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/215757713/tumblr_krohd8SvPm1qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Getting Tired But I’m Not Stopping</div> <p>Another song sketch for <a href="http://www.thounds.com">http://www.thounds.com</a>. I was dead tired when I came up with this one, and I wanted to go to bed but I just couldn’t stop playing.</p> <p>Sign up and add me to your contacts to hear the cool cello track that someone recorded on top of it.</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215757713http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215757713Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:36:00 -0400guitarthoundsong sketchacoustic<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/215754540/tumblr_kroh3iODQx1qa8b6t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><div class="songtitle">Christening</div> <p>This was my first upload to <a href="http://www.thounds.com">http://www.thounds.com</a> & I just came up with it more or less as I was recording it. I’m not going to make any apologies about poor playing or production. It’s just a song seed. A few basic parts that a more complete song could be built out of in the future.  Expect a lot more of these in the future.</p>http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215754540http://blog.rajeevsingh.com/post/215754540Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:30:00 -0400guitarthoundsong sketchmusic blogacousticdistortionslightly overdriven acoustic guitarthis is totally my first tumblr post ever