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Greg Scheer, Live at the Morris Inn

I attended a conference at Notre Dame this weekend. In my spare time I annoyed people at the Morris Inn by recording some songs in my room. I’ve only had time to gussy up two of them so far: “Silent Star” and “Let It Go.” They’re just rough, one-take demos, but they get the idea across. I’d love to hear some feedback on these, because I’m thinking about making some “real” recordings of a few of them in the future.

Two technical sidenotes: 1. A few people have said that they can’t get the mp3 links to work. Are other people having that problem? I tried a different linking system for the above songs, so let me know if it solves the problem. 2. When I mixed these songs in Audacity I got a muddy, slightly overblown sound. It sounds fine in Audacity, but when I play the mix in iTunes it’s much louder. Anyone have any ideas?

Addendum: Here’s another one along the same lines–“Happy Birthday, Goodbye.”

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Dance!

My wife told me that my music blog is boring. Well, she didn’t say boring, but she thought it would be more interesting if I included more personal stuff to make things more…bloggish. When I get a little time I intend to record more songs for the blog, but for now I have to work with what I have.

And what do I have?

For now what I have is a demo of a song I co-wrote with Jackie Worth, called Dance!. Jackie had already placed some songs with a teenage girl group called The Gemz and heard that they were looking for new material. There’s nothing I love more than a compositional challenge, so I got to work. It wasn’t long before I realized that I was not going to be able to write convincing lyrics from the point of view of a teen girl, so Jackie bailed me out. The result is this demo.

The sad conclusion to this story is that The Gemz didn’t end up using the song. So if any of you have any leads with other girl groups, feel free to tell them about “Dance!”

Having trouble with the above link? Try this: Dance!