(Traditional) Pretty much my entire summer live performance schedule is now up in the shows tab of reynold.com. This is the first song I ever learned on guitar, though I first learned it to be played all in the first position with open string notes included. I was ten years old then and have been working on a “definitive” solo […]
(Composed and performed by Reynold Philipsek 2008 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI) In May, 2008 I went to New York City to play two rather small solo gigs and make an “in-store” appearance at J and R Music (those were still the days of “Record and CD” stores). My friend Irene Trudel at WFMU had a show back then and invited
(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2009 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Recorded by Stymie Seamans I forget the precise year I wrote this song. I think it was about 2008. I do remember how I came up with the idea, however. I was out for my daily 3.5-mile jog in the wooded area near the “grey chalet” when the main
(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2020 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Recording engineer-Stymie Seamans I had Envisioned an ultra slow-motion bebop tune. The shape of the progression and the slightly angular melody would be very Bop if you laid it under the appropriate drum part at 10 times the tempo and at a hard swing. Or so I thought. That’s
(Composed and arranged by Reynold D. Philipsek 2015 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Guitars-Reynold, percussion-Michael Bissonnette, bass-Matt Senjem, piano-Gregg Inhofer, recording engineer-Stymie Seamans Since I just posted the video about the writing, recording, mixing, and mastering of this song for the documentary “A Life Well Played” I thought it appropriate to now post the link to the final product. I have fond
This clip is compiled from outtakes from the documentary “A Life Well Played.” I think it may be of interest to some as it is meant to show the entire process from writing a song, to rehearsing, recording, mixing and mastering. It never made the final cut of the documentary but was included as an “extra” on the DVD. I
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