Gitarded: The Hachamacha Project
This is the source of the problem. Its not this exact guitar because I copied this image from a catalog, so this is one of its evil cousins. I tried hiding the damned thing in a closet 10 years back in the hopes I might actually get something done with my life. One day as I walked by that closet, the door shot open and the guitar locked itself around my neck like a boa.
The music files: . They're all played by me. I don't have the patience for doing re-takes (yet anyway), so there's plenty of mistakes. Some will be chord files (like music minus 1) of standards and songs I've written and others will be examples of the same songs with melody.
Songs (with chords only)
There are no permissions to download the files put on this site thus far unless you know for a fact that the copyrights are expired. They are not my songs, and credit is given to all composers so you should be able to figure out the copyright infringement rules. If you don't take the time to do this, you might be liable for using a copyrighted song without permission by the current holders of the copyright. When I am able to record my originals to my satisfaction, I'll replace those and those will be downloadable. All the songs on here need re-recording and hopefully that'll happen.
Notes:
Recording in general: I record onto a cheap Zoom h4, some straight acoustic, some direct balanced input. The user interface is a nightmare, but I hardly touch it. I don't like doing punch-in recording because it sounds like a different person all of a sudden. If I can't do the thing in one take, I just wait a few days and do it all again. A good example of this is Falling Grace, 3/4 of the way through it, the strap came loose on my guitar and I had to grab it to save it, and keep playing. This is typically what punching in would sound like in my case and why I avoid it.