Autumn

I have an odd little instrument from a thrift store. It looks kind of like an autoharp, but without the auto part. Its range is very limited and it's probably out of tune, but I like picking out little melodies on it. Here is one of those melodies adapted for the guitar, but set to different midi instruments.

Autumn

The Dark Child

This song is an experiment in harmonies and note pairings. The previous sentence might be redundant. A very dark, low song.

The Dark Child

Sludge

You'll forgive me if I say that I like this song a lot. Writing it was a very fun experiment in note relationships, atonality, and combining both major and minor harmonies. The only thing I don't like are the speed metal riffs I tacked onto the end. The first of those riffs is very generic, and the second is a ripoff of a riff from "Sinner" by Judas Priest.
I have both a midi and an enhanced version of this song, but I'm not even going to bother posting the midi, because the enhanced version is better.

Edit: This is in the wrong file type to be able to be played online, so I'll change it soon.

Sludge

Dance of the Dawn

I went through a phase of being enthusiastic about exotic scales a few years ago. This odd little song is based on a Chinese scale, I believe. The melody of this song is five measures long, which I suppose is strange.
I recorded this on a thirteen dollar acoustic guitar that I got at a thrift store. It was a crappy little guitar, and if you have an ear for that sort of thing you'll be able to detect that it isn't tuned very well either.
This song was saved as a wave file, rather than an mp3, so it is disproportionately large and takes a while to load.

Dance of the Dawn

Forboding

I like playing around with chords on the ukulele. This is one result of that.

Forboding

Hunted

This song features a few strange chords and some bird sounds, a lead guitar melody that I somewhat like, and a couple of very generic heavy metal riffs.
I've tinkered somewhat with this song since creating this midi. This version can be considered a somewhat abortive first draft.

Hunted

No One to Hear Its Secrets

Though I only started playing musical instruments when I was fifteen, I've always been a fairly musical person. Some of these songs I've posted are little melodies that I've been humming since I was a little kid.
This weird, mysterious little melody is one of these. I think it was inspired by some background music in a "Fraggle Rock" episode!

No One to Hear Its Secrets