I created a Soundcloud account and have been putting up many of my practice recordings. Soundcloud is like YouTube but for sharing audio versus video. My Youtube channel will still keep the tracks with the slideshows, it is just that soundcloud provides and easy way to share music. ~ enjoy
Latest tracks by Stadig

Here is a recording I did the other day, just me and a guitar recorded through a microphone, single take. This is part of my learning to play project. I plan on revisiting this song and doing more with it, but i have been so busy with training it leaves little time for other things. I do try to get a little practice in and that is what this recording is from.

This another piece in my learning to play project.. This is a song by Townes Van Zandt that I have always liked and rarely hear. As with Song to Siren I used a single take recording method, but this time using only a single microphone for capturing voice and guitar at the same time. The Slideshow consists of images from past Newport Folk Festivals and it’s performers..Enjoy..
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Well I have been trying to use my break in work to learn how to play guitar, and this is my latest attempt. This is a Tim Buckley song that really caught my eye.  It is a different style and was recorded as a single take… acoustic guitar off the pickup, through one channel and mic for voice through another. Hope you enjoy it…

Well here is one of my creations and explorations with Ableton. It is my first arrangement, so it is what it is, one might call it a beta.

I used Ableton to record Guitar, Vocal and several midi instruments on the A.A. Bondy Song. I am still not quite there with the looping assembly, therefore I record straight into the arrangement view, which i think is old school, but it works (more…)

I recently started trying to learn Ableton for messing around with recording music. In looking at all the options it seemed to be the most flexible in that it can do loop based music as well as the old long form way of recording into tracks. Further it handles any changes all live so you can create in the moment. You can add effects, instruments, clips, loops etc all while what you are doing is playing (more…)

I have been putting some effort into really learning music particularly more so the last few months. I have always enjoyed music for a multitude of reasons but I find as I learn more and get more competent with playing and singing I am gaining confidence and with it a desire to write and create, thus turning a distant fleeting dream into something real and tangable . (more…)