There is no need for a helmet for the fall that is coming will never end.
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It Follows You
Posted: September 18, 2020 in Opinions and ObservationsTags: #memories, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #poeticadvice, #shadow, #thoughtoftheday
Every time you leave the room
You take your shadow with you.
Remember your memories
They have already forgotten you.
You can ask me anything.
If I know the answer it will be easy.
If I don’t know the answer it will be easier.
The Intersection of Karma and Irony
Posted: September 11, 2020 in PoetryTags: #karma, #karmaandirony, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #poem, #songwriter, irony, karma, poem, poetry
It didn’t take long to get here but it never does.
Every answer I get lately is, ‘just because’.
It takes so long to retrace steps carelessly made.
No winners or losers whenever the game is played.
A never ending stream of lies like burning arrows
Directed at the innocent as the fire grows.
Family or friends you’d throw anybody under the bus
Hard to believe who could but someone always does.
The Intersection of Karma and Irony
When everything gets thrown back in your face.
The Intersection of Karma and Irony
Your empire demolished and a temple in its place.
Thinking you’re so clever with all the right things to say
Hoping the pretty dance you do makes it all go away.
With power you didn’t earn you push and shove the weak
The sheer weight you have has now left you up a creek.
The Intersection of Karma and Irony
When everything gets thrown back in your face.
The Intersection of Karma and Irony
Your empire demolished and a temple in its place.
It’s not like we believed you, no one could be that dumb
The hidden agendas just make us a little numb.
The pedestal you stood on was never really there.
And the truth of the matter is that we never even cared.
Your words are meaningless and soon forgotten
But the bitterness remains as the fruit becomes rotten.
With power you didn’t earn you push and shove the weak
The sheer weight you have has now left you up a creek.
Forward
Posted: September 4, 2020 in Midi Series, My TunesTags: #DAW, #Instrumental, #keyboard, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #mixingboard, #original songs, #Presonus, #recordingstudio, #Sphere, #StudioOne5
I have been working with a new suite of audio recording and mixing software for the last two weeks called Presonus. I am using their Studio One 5 bundle. I am starting to get the feel of how it works. A bit of a learning curve and unlearning curve from other programs, but very flexible interface and great sounding plug ins.
Here is my first tune noodling around with the functions and features. A simple groove I call ‘Forward’.
The great thing is the new software automatically imported all the instruments, effects and and plug ins I already had. These are all ‘virtual’ instruments from the sound and effect plug ins. I use a MIDI keyboard controller for most of the input for instruments.
I hope you enjoy this one for a few minutes in your busy days.
My Mistake
Posted: August 30, 2020 in PoetryTags: #guilt, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #realization, #songwriter, personal blame
It’s not like I planned it
Much of life is under handed
I didn’t really understand it.
And all of it demanded.
The rest of my life branded
My soul reprimanded
Heart and thoughts now commanded
Hope forever abandoned.
Not like I didn’t have a choice
When I needed it I lost my voice.
The true cost is not on the invoice
But everyone loves their toys.
There are those who will rejoice
Not just women or their boys
Their words thick and moist
It is the silence that destroys.
My Mistake
And I made it so long ago.
My Mistake
Took me this long to know.
Passions and hope and dreams
I made them all routine
Rather leave than make a scene
Hide behind another machine.
Standing tall and in between
Excuses and lies on a trampoline
Drinking cool-aid from a canteen
Pretending what I did wasn’t mean.
My Mistake
And I made it so long ago.
My Mistake
Took me this long to know.
White Man’s Big Mistake
Posted: August 15, 2020 in Opinions and Observations, projectsTags: #blm, #discrimination, #icanexplainittoyou, #indians, #indiantribes, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #racism, #racisminamerica, #video, #whitemansbigmistake, #wlm, Emancipation, treaty
Another installment in my “I Can Explain It To You” series. Here is a link for the first installment: https://midimike.com/2020/06/27/when-the-silent-majority-speaks-out-what-will-they-say/
Pounding of a Drum
Posted: August 7, 2020 in PoetryTags: #beirutexplosion, #grief, #humanity, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #news, #nighmares, #personalloss, #poem, #poetry, #political, grief, personal loss
Summer sun setting on one hand
The winter moon rising on the other.
Watching as my father’s son
Is told of the loss of his brother.
Forces built up with only one end
And the end will always come.
More dreams lost than can be counted
Began with the Pounding of a Drum.
We can no longer make sense of the world.
We can’t protect loved ones,
It has begun
Hear the Pounding of the Drum.
There is no comprehension
No mere words could ever describe.
There is no excuse or reason
In a righteous man’s diatribe.
Left standing in a different world
So much life just swept away.
The worst pain is not physical
Like the memories from today.
We can no longer make sense of the world.
We can’t protect loved ones,
It had begun long ago it is true
The Pounding of the Drum now heard from Beirut.
Summer sun setting on one hand
The winter moon rising on the other.
Watching as my father’s son
Is told of the loss of his brother.
Forces built up with only one end
And the end will always come.
More dreams lost than can be counted
Began with the Pounding of a Drum.
© MSK 8-5-2020
The Mighty Plan Part 3
Posted: July 27, 2020 in Opinions and Observations, PoetryTags: #blm, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike.com, #poem, #poetry, #racism, #racisminamerica, #themightyplan, faith, religion
I now see the infinite wisdom here.
God made us in his image and likeness
So we are told.
Angels are white and robed in gold
There are demons and that’s for sure.
Tempting us toward an unholy path
To steal your heart.
Man questioned how he might tell them apart
So he made one red, and another black.
Colors of hair and eyes and some stand tall
Now you can see.
The faces that belong here with thee
But what for the blind that cannot know
The wisdom of the lord from above?
To save them too.
Languages were created no one knew
It is so simple as to be part of my face
We just need a color-guided human race.
How thoughtful to make it so well known
Good and evil separated by the color shown
Your enemy is also made in his image.
And feels exactly the same way you do
Love conquers all.
As another peaceful day begins to fall
Music for “Let You Go”
Posted: July 20, 2020 in music technology, My Tunes, Poetry, technologyTags: #boss, #Martinguitars, #Midi, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #original songs, #poetrytolyrics, #recording, #recordingstudio, #singer, #singer song-writer, #songwriting, #Yamaha
I posted a poem earlier called “Let You Go” https://midimike.com/2020/07/07/let-you-go/ that I really liked. While I was working on writing the music for these lyrics I got side-tracked. I had recorded a few MIDI drum parts and had a guitar theme I liked playing on my Martin Acoustic/Electric guitar chained together trying to get a feel for the song.
A good friend called me out of the blue and asked if I wanted to have his old MIDI studio gear. No instruments or toys will be orphaned if I can help it so I drove over that day. We chatted for a while and I left with a van full of what most people would call ‘ancient’ gear. This is the stuff hits were made with. Everything you heard growing up using electronic drums or synths used these gems.
I got home and hooked up a few pieces like a kid not knowing which present he wants to open first. DAYS LATER I opened up my recording project again and played with a vocal effect toy I had not gotten to yet. Not wanting to stop an idea I was working on I started recording in another section of the session. As you will hear, I decided not to sing the chorus parts. Instead I used some of the lyrics to do a chant-style intro and outro.
After juggling the original music around I started to work on a melody for the lyrics. I used some of the chant themes so the melody took shape pretty quickly. Not wanting to overdo the vocal effect, I just used reverb on my voice. Then I added some MIDI bass guitar sounds and put the pieces together.
Next, I added a little MIDI piano in the chorus sections and sprinkled through the end of the song. Then I made some stupid editing error and trashed all of the drum tracks!!! Redo the drum tracks and a few days later I have a rough mix for you.
As some of you will know, a rough mix is probably the last one I do! LOL.
Here is “Let You Go” as it stands today. I hope you enjoy this one.
