MUSO'S MUSIC
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:
You will need the Macromedia plug in Flash 7 or later for your browser downloadable from Adobe in order to play the tracks.
If you like any of the music here, or if even if you think it sucks, you can go to myspace.com/nickmuso and rate it or add a comment, I would be grateful for some feedback.
TO PLAY THE TRACKS:
The Gaudi's Ghost media player, once you press the start button, will play the tracks one after the other, or click on individual tracks to hear them. In the case of Zephyr Dreams the mp3 is over 7Mb in size so you may have a short wait while your media player builds a buffer.
The shortest & simplest track is track 3 on Gaudi's Ghost which is about 1.3 Mb.
MUSIC TRACKS
You can download (see downloading below) any of the tracks for free and
burn them to C.D., but
I retain the copyright on the music.
Mp3s although a compressed file format, tend to be large files, so if
you are accessing the internet through dial up connection it will take
a long time for your media player to download a buffer and play the
tracks, (6 or 7 minutes for the shortest track using 56k modem).
This facility is therefore really aimed at broadband users only.
DOWNLOADING
The tracks are playable but not downloadable at the moment. Normally if
you provide a link directly to an mp3 it should bring up the user's
download manager when clicked on.
When I tried this out however, it
brought up Apple Quicktime and played the track. Needs more
investigation.
TROUBLESHOOTING:
Windows media player message: cannot find the file in the specified location. That would probably mean the server where I store the files was having temporary problems. Could try again later.
If you get a message about missing codecs it means you have to download the correct codecs from Microsoft in order to be able to play mp3s
Cannot hear track: Check your speakers are on.
OTHER WEBSITES BY NICKMUSO
GAUDI'S GHOST
A collection of songs for acoustic guitar.
San sebastian was written after an enjoyable day spent there, I loved the tall narrow streets with the tapas bars, and the rocky shoreline with the surf pounding on it.
If the track gaudi's ghost sounds a bit jaunty in places for a ghost, that's because it's how I imagined his ghost would be.
ZEPHYR
DREAMS part 1
Track 7 on the player above. I was messing around on the keyboard one day trying to play Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. I never did find exactly the right notes but out of this attempt there gradually evolved this piece of music which is based round the ticking of my grandfather's watch. I even have the nucleus of a story to go with it.
Lead guitar solo by Dave from Lex Elbow
SPACE STORM
Track 8 on the player above. A theme tune for a Sci Fi movie possibly.
ABOUT NICK MUSO
S*d this for a game of soldiers I thought, aged around 14, when I got
rapped over the knuckles during piano lessons when I got my scales
wrong. I packed them in and from then on I spent all my spare time
hanging around the school music room and anytime anyone came in who
could play guitar I'd ask them to teach me a chord.
I've been a muso ever since.
When I progressed to college I joined a traditional jazz band called The Clarence Steet Washboard Wizards playing banjo, and yes, we did have a washboard player. We also, in the early years, had someone playing a phona fiddle, a one stringed fiddle with an old fashioned gramaphone horn sticking up from it. We made a weird and wonderful sound and what's more we got paid for it. Our main claim to fame was that we had been on the same billing as the Rolling Stones as a support band. Strictly speaking this was true. What we sometimes forgot to mention was that it was an open air concert in Hyde Park and the Stones were playing on the main stage whilst we were about a mile away on the periphery of the park playing on a small bandstand.
The jazz band having
finally
fizzled out after some great years as the nucleus of the band graduated
and moved to various parts of the country, I became involved with folk
music
and used to take my guitar down to the
local pub to sing and play where there was an enthusiastic crowd who
would sing along and add the harmonies. We always used to sing at the
end of darts matches which went down well at most of the pubs we played
in except one where they banned our whole darts team, I'm not sure
whether that reflected the quality of our singing or was more to do
with the fact that one of our team had puked up behind the juke box.
Later I was part of a band in which we spent about 2 years writing our
own material and practicing, we finally gigged out about twice and then
the band folded. Shortly afterwards I moved to Hampshire where I got
together with Dave from Lex Elbow and another guy to write our own
material. That lasted for a couple of years and since then I have been
concentrating on
acoustic guitar and have produced some finished tracks, you can hear
some of them above. Dave and I are now planning to start
writing together again and hopefully will have some new material soon.
