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Chris is a…
- TROUBADOUR, Singer/Songwriter, Musician and Home Recording Engineer
- AUTISM/Alzheimer's Advocate
- GOSPEL of Life Disciple and ambassador
Chris writes, records and produces songs and put them on this website for people to download and hopefully share and enjoy.
This site hosts Chris' musical art gallery, blog and editorials in support of "The Gospel of Life" and of persons with autism and seniors living in nursing homes.
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Hi friends,
I reached a new milestone recently. I have produced my first ever CD! All of my work on the Musing Mana Song Project has been compiled onto CD format and is now available to order directly from my web site. Instant Downloads! Take It! Share It! Remix It!
Dedication:
As I have talked about in my blog postings from time to time on my web site, my music and work I put into it is especially dedicated to the most vulnerable and often the least remembered in our world: Those living with disabilities, especially autism, and to our seniors in nursing homes. And certainly just as importantly, the caregivers who love and support all of these special people.
As I mentioned, these songs are from my very first songwriting and recording project, “The Musing Mana Songwriting Project” that was published on the Internet on this web site, between March 2008 and September 2009. In this project I produced a new song as often as possible and released it for free as a Podcast. These songs are available here in their raw form, exactly as they were podcasted including some with my “Hey, this is Chris from Chris Hartzog.com……” introduction.
It’s got fourteen songs, you can either purchase the whole CD, buy one song at a time or buy the whole group as a zip file. There’s no DRM and it’s Creative Commons licensed. CD purchases get a real CD signed personally by me mailed directly to you.
Even though it would be really nice, cool and thoughtful of you to actually buy from me, I am equally thrilled if you take the free download and take it upon yourselves to share my music with your friends. You can remix it, use it in your videos, play it on your podcasts, heck, go ahead and include it in software and games and it give it a life of its own.
Oh, I should mention that if you choose to purchase you can rest assured that your purchase is safe and secure since it is handled through PayPal the worlds largest online payment processing company. You can also use most major credit cards. Just go to my Download Music page. It’s that easy. If that doesn’t work for you, you can mail me a check or money order.
Thanks,
Chris
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Did you ever screw up?
Did you ever screw up your life and not realize at the time that you were screwed up?
Did you ever realize that at one time you were screwing up your life and while oblivious to the fact that you were totally screwing things up, someone was in your life loving you and standing by you and willing to take you back?
That is what this song is about. Sometimes that forgiveness and love comes from a strong person in your life, sometimes it comes from yourself and it always comes from God who loves you unconditionally.
This is the third official song release in my Podcast series for my new album, “Lost In Your Arms of Love” and this song will be the title track and believe it or not is called, “Lost In Your Arms of Love.”
But, whoa….I looked at the calendar since my last post in this series and it looks like I got distracted by life again from my release schedule. Part of the distraction is that we became doggie daddy and mommy again. Here is Kaleigh and Dylan. Dylan came from the Shetland Sheepdog rescue when he found himself suddenly in need of a new loving home. Kaleigh is always wondering where her next meal is coming from.
Anyway, the good news is I have gotten a lot of studio work done and I now have a few songs re-done and ready to post. So, for this week I decided to grab out of my finished music bucket Lost In Your Arms of Love. This tune did not require too much work in order to re-release it for this CD as my original recording was pretty solid. I did pull this song over off my PC onto the Mac and remixed it using Logic Pro and readjusted the mix levels. Since there is no direct export-import from Sonar to Logic, redoing this song was really quite a bit of work. Anway, a few lessons with Michael Powers on mixing really opened my eyes to how bad my old mixes were!
Now, here is a better mix of the song.
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These are my Favorite Links for February 25th through February 27th:
FriendOrFollow.com – Who’s not following you back? Who aren’t you following? –
Slowhand Blues Guitar Tutorial Intro and FAQ – Slowhand Blues Guitar –
Accent on Music – Seeing “White” Notes on the Guitar Neck, Like a Piano –
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The AP published an interesting article recently describing the links found in the brain between music and words including the possiblity that intense therapy with music might improve speech in not only stroke patients, but in individuals with autism as well. It’s nice to know that what my wife and I have known instinctively for years….using music to help our autistic daughter process and understand language better….is now being backed up by science. This also adds more meaning to the work I do with music with nursing home residents, especially those experiencing memory loss such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Add some music and suddenly non-responsive folks start smiling, or tapping a foot or finger or sometimes even singing.
The full article published on Yahoo News, titled, “Research finds brain link for words, music ability”, can be found here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100220/ap_on_sc/us_sci_words_and_music
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It appears iTunes has a one track mind. I noticed today that the first post I made under this “Lost in Your Arms of Love” series, which included links to two mp3’s only provides the first mp3 when you access it in iTunes. If you go to the post in my blog, both files are there. So I am reposting the song, “Irish Rockerwoman 2010″ today so that this will flow through to iTunes. I guess next time if I want to include a spoken introduction along with the song, I will have to merge them into one.
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We’ve not been slouching here around the Kilika Music Studios of late. A lot of behind the scenes activity has in fact been taking place. One interesting development, to me anyway, is that on a whim I decided to see if I could create some ringtones. I never really cared too much for the stock ringtones that came with my Verizon phone and I thought, “gee wouldn’t it be cool if I could turn some of my songs into ringtones?” ”Yeah, it would.” came the answer.
I have a unique sense of humor or perspective I suppose…..for some reason when I hear the word “ringtone” I think of “toe rings”….but as you can see, I don’t have any.
At long last, I set to work to figure out how to do it. Along this journey, I discovered the nice folks at Myxer (www.myxer.com) had put a system in place to let me do exactly what I was after. So I went [...] Continue Reading…
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