Tim Karplus

Rock / Experimental / Other

Oregon

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About

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
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Got a new piano piece up, Wildflower. I've been working on some new vocal material as well, which should be up in a while.

Monday, March 26th, 2007
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This whole VIRB scene isn't as movin' as I thought! Don't really do much on here.

Saturday, March 10th, 2007
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I thought I might write a little about my music. All the songs on here are home recordings, and my friend Matt takes care of the vocals on quite a few of them. I am currently in college studying jazz composition; composition is definitely my focus throughout these pieces. I could write a little bit about each song, I suppose. How about that?
Alright (Home Again) - It definitely looks more professional when one writes a second title in parentheses after the first. Credit to Matt for the lead vocals and congas on this one; I did all the background vocals.
Peanut Butter and Jelly - Matt acutally wrote the first minute of this song, and sang it as well. The massive choir is him and me multi-tracked many times. I wrote the bluesy section, with Matt doing the semi-scat lead and drums.
Cell Phones - This piece resulted from a couple of very unusual progressions I came up with on piano, especially the first: C minor, Db major, G# minor, B7. I added the round section and it worked out nicely. Matt did the drums.
Help Me Out - Probably the strongest true collaboration between Matt and myself. He sang the verses and I sang the chorus. He also played the drums and came up with the bassline on the verse (which I think is one of the strengths of the song). The guitar solo came out very well and was done in one take.
On My Journey Home - Matt and I wrote this together, with him mostly coming up with his lead melodies and me working on the backgrounds. He sang almost all of it; I did the bass part on the final section.
Hymn - This is a simple and brief but beautiful late 19th century style piano piece. I may one day do more with it, but it stands well on its own.
Wildflower - A combination jazz/classical piece that makes use of the 3/3/3/3/2/2 division of 16 beats. Some cool chord changes going on as well. As with the hymn, I may one day do more with it.

And maybe leave a comment or something if you listen. Thanks!

Thursday, March 8th, 2007
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I have created a VIRB account. We will see how it pans out. I am not stressed or tense about it, but if I were, I suppose I would be...VIRB tense?

Comments(13)

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Nathan Worden, Nov 27, 2008:

Awesome stuff. I'm gonna send you a DVD of some of my recent movie undertakings just for fun.

What's your address?

Keep up the sweet music!

Caleb C., Jun 26, 2007:

sweet yeah i really like our new song too, chorus especially good, we need to get Dan down here to finish "in love with love" ... or just finish it

Caleb C., May 21, 2007:

tim, we should get together and write some music soon

matthew paul bittner, May 20, 2007:

have a new song up: dante

matthew paul bittner, May 3, 2007:

gee, thanks, timothy!

Radio Matthew, Mar 28, 2007:

Yo!

Kymberly D., Mar 13, 2007:

Yeah I know what you are talking about...Im going to re-record that song along with most of the other ones that I have done....I did them for a senior project for high school...haha Ive been outa high school for 2 years now!!!! I'll have a drum beat or something behind the a ccapella song...but anyway thank you so much for your comment...and to me its not really about making it big its about spreading the word of Jesus the best way I know how...through song!!!!