A Riddle

I could save your life in the right hands, I could end it in others, I could be used for common work. C.K.

Music Library

      Hi y'all, not that this is big news, but I have uploaded all of my music online for download, and you can find it here if you want to browse through the library of my musical works and download some.
      Anyway, that's where you can go in the future if I upload any more music on YouTube or elsewhere; I should have everything I write there for download. Also, I may have forgotten a song in a lost folder on my computer somewhere or just on another harddrive, and if I discover any they will be added there as well.

      And bye now, C=
            -- Coyle McTroon

Salty Tears

I originally composed this when experimenting around on my piano—basically just discovering the raw melody then. Later I added a second part to it, and now, I've completed it with a beginning and ending, recording it with my MIDI piano and GarageBand 6.0.5. I used the default piano, and for the cello I downloaded an .sf2 file.




The links below will bring you to where you can download different versions of the song; version four is what was used for the video, and all the others are just prototypes before it was quite finished. They sound pretty much the same though, except that version one is shorter and that 2 and 3 are using a different piano font that 1 and 4. If you have any trouble with downloading, just leave a comment and I'll see how I can help.

Version 1: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxCq9b3k8lnQUXhMRlB1RmdkX2M
Version 2: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxCq9b3k8lnQSDduMDhoc2pNakk
Version 3: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxCq9b3k8lnQLVJhaExfWlJfRGc
Version 4: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxCq9b3k8lnQdnYtd3hQdFVzLTQ

A Hero's Death

Literally, just a hero's death. :D

"Wild William"

Here's a drawing a drew at Coyle's. He's supposed to be a crazy warrior. Sorry if the sword doesn't look right, it's supposed to be going out behind him.

The Quick & The Dead

      In the style of the epic old GameBoy music (keeping in mind the original Mario and Link's Awakening as I wrote), I used a GameBoy SoundFont and had a lot of fun composing this short little tune!
      

Work in Progress

 

So here's the song I'm working on. It obviously isn't finished, and I may never finish it. Credit for the melody has to go to my sister, by the way.

Sweet Dreams

      I discovered soundfonts a few weeks ago; they work much like letter fonts, only with sound. (Duh.) Anyway, there's a huge variety of them only from 8-bit videogame-style to symphonic epicness. The song below (click "read more" to listen) was not done with symphonic epicness, but with the 8-bit videogame-style. :) I titled it Sweet Dreams because for some reason that kind of music never fails to make me smile and/or laugh; there's something playful and energetic about it that gets me.

      Though I didn't spend much time on it at all (probably five minutes) I was pleased with the way it turned out—as far as the sound of the piece goes, anyway.

Death of a Hummingbird

Here is a sort of melodramatic piano piece I wrote and recorded using Coyle's Garage Band program. Comments appreciated!

J.D.H.