TIMOTHY LAWLER Classical Guitar

My Acoustic and Electric Guitar Work

Improvised acoustic duet. Takamine small bodied guitar. Recorded with a Schoeps MK41 mic, Great River preamp. I wasn't thinking of this title when recording it, but afterward it seemed to fit.

Up All Night Blues

Features Chris Dickson (N. Ireland) on vocal, Larry Banks (Detroit) on bass, and MadAudio (Wash DC) on Drums. Chris improvised the lyrics, totally off the cuff, and recorded them in one take! I'm on the two guitar parts, which were recorded with a Naiant MSH-4 tube mic.

Come Together

Well known Beatles tune. Two nylon string guitars with two steel string guitars playing lightly in the background. Combines a solo arrangement that I play with an improvised blues guitar part . Each part recorded with a Dean Markley "Artist" piezo transducer into a BlueTube preamp. I usually record with mic's but, as an exercise, wanted to see what kind of sound I could get with a piezo transducer.

Slow Latin Jam

Rami Homsy (Montreal) on drums. I'm on the two electric guitars. Amp mic'd w/SM57, Great River preamp. This and the harmonic minor ballad following are actually two of many exercises I use with my students for fingerboard scale knowledge and improvisation practice - using the A minor and pentatonic minor scales on this one, D pentatonic minor as well as harmonic minor mentioned in the title of the next.

Harmonic Minor Ballad

Two electric guitars. I wanted to see if I could get a decent sound out of the cheap Behringer preamp in the miniature mixer I use for monitoring in my teaching studio. Recorded with a Shure SM57 mic into the Behringer preamp, going to a Tascam US122 USB interface, then into my laptop.

Gypsy Rumble

The online community, homerecording.com, had a series of tongue-in-cheek competitions - called Rumbles - where a number of guitarists each recorded themselves soloing over a given backing track, then posted the results. The accompaniment to this one was provided by Arvo Palm-Leis. I improvised a guitar line over it, and added some rasgueado strumming in the background as well. Beyer M160 mic, GR preamp.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

I had two inexpensive mic's I never used and decided to give them to a friend. Just as I was boxing them up I had the urge to record something with them before they were gone. It's a Behringer ECM8000 omni mic, with a little of an MXL990 mixed in, through a Great River preamp. .First the tune, then an improvisation.

Long Tall Texan

This is me singing with a group of 60 first and second graders. I added the electric guitar part after. Recorded on cassette tape, so it's low-fi. This one always makes me laugh. Those kids sure had lots of energy. I taught music at their school for a few years when my two children were very young.

Heartbreak Hotel

Live performance by a Jr High classic rock band I coached. I'm backing them up on elec guitar. Doesn't sound like it, but the singer is 13. These guys were hilarious. They could quote practically any line from the movie, Spinal Tap.