Category Archives: Garage Band is the BOMB

365 DotU, Day 134 Is Really Tired Now…

Posted on August 11, 2013 by L. M. Bernhardt

I’ve been cranking out little ukulele covers like a machine this weekend, and I think I’m going to take a few days off after this one, because my fingers hurt and my voice is busted. Note to self: Don’t play … Continue reading →

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365 DotU, Day 132 Wants To Haunt Your Nightmares With a Ukulele

Posted on August 9, 2013 by L. M. Bernhardt

Ehem. 2 posts on the same day. I am BACK! Hahaha! Anyway, here’s another piece of my little ukulele project: “Dream A Little Dream Of Me.” It’s a classic, perhaps most famously covered by the Mamas & the Papas, but … Continue reading →

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365 DotU Has Returned to UkuleleLand WITH A VENGEANCE

Posted on August 9, 2013 by L. M. Bernhardt

So, as I mentioned in the last entry in the series, I’m working on some songs for a little project — lullabies, sweet stuff, that sort of thing. I decided I was going to follow three rules for this one: … Continue reading →

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Still riding that learning curve…

Posted on June 27, 2013 by L. M. Bernhardt

So, once upon a time (back in February 2013), I took up the February Album Writing Challenge (sort of), and I wrote and recorded a bunch of songs. Most of them were, well, meh. There were one or two, though, … Continue reading →

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Time To Let It Go…

Posted on February 23, 2013 by L. M. Bernhardt

So I finished recording and writing the songs, fine. I just couldn’t stop, though. I’ve been fussing with the recordings. I think I’ve finally got them to “passable demo” status. Here’s the new, re-mixed, re-mastered, re-messed-with “album”: I think that, … Continue reading →

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365 DotU, Day 126 Has Broken Up With The Police

Posted on January 8, 2013 by L. M. Bernhardt

You know how it is. They’re all needy and law-and-ordery, you’re all free-wheeling and fun. It just didn’t work out. Ehem. Today’s trip into coverworld is a lesson in stuff I can’t play. I’m getting a little better, I think … Continue reading →

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365 DotU, Day 124 Has A Twinkle In Its Eye

Posted on December 30, 2012 by L. M. Bernhardt

Whew! Been a while, eh? Well, busy busy, excuses excuses, etc. Today’s offering is offered with just a little sort-of guilt. As I shoveled my driveway yesterday, Gillian Welch came up in my iPod, and she had a message for … Continue reading →

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365 DotU, Day 123 Thinks You’re Swell

Posted on November 25, 2012 by L. M. Bernhardt

I’ve always had a soft spot for that sweet old swing stuff. It just works for me, in ways that some other forms of music don’t. There’s a kind of joyful energy about the best of it, infectious and driving … Continue reading →

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365 DotU, Day 119 Is Walking Backwards In Its Hometown

Posted on September 16, 2012 by L. M. Bernhardt

I’ve already nattered on to everyone and sundry about how awesome Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are. I am grateful to have encountered the music they make, and totally awed by how they make it. Welch’s The Harrow and the … Continue reading →

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365 DotU, Day 118 is Feeling A Bit Crowded

Posted on September 16, 2012 by L. M. Bernhardt

House, that is. Neil Finn and company. Woohoo! This is yet another in the long list of bands that my proto-hipster teenage self couldn’t attach herself to, even though she loved it. It’s another one of those hipster-blocked early loves … Continue reading →

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