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New Song for an Old Friend
We released a new song called “Across the Kill” in honor of Ludwig Day, a townwide celebration in New Paltz. Ludwig used to open for us. If you attended a Los show from ’09–11, you were guaranteed a Ludwig opener; it was the cherry on the front of the cake. He was playing most weekday […]
Delano Park
NEWS RELEASE: Los Doggies Releases Free Mix Tape Inspired by Friends and Family NEW PALTZ, NY (May 8th, 2015) – Los Doggies releases “Delano Park,” a mix tape of new songs written for friends and family. Each of the five songs is dedicated to a specific person intimately connected to the band as reward for […]
Drum Beat Song
What happens when you accidentally give your drum charts to the keyboardist? You end up with the Drum Beat Song. Click on the score to play/stop. The Drum Beat Song is a standard 4/4 Rock Beat at 120 bpm set to music. Using drum notation, the kick drum translates to a low D, while the […]
Snake Charmer
The ‘Snake Charmer’ is a popular melody for evoking the Middle East. Here it is in the key of E minor. The Snake Charmer melody comes from a song called “The Streets of Cairo” written by showman and congressman Sol Bloom. Bloom was the entertainment director of the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, and […]
Sonic Melodies
The ‘Continue Sound’ from Sonic the Hedgehog is a series of arpeggios ascending and decrescendoing. The arpeggios make up the first five chords of the C Major scale—C major, D minor, E minor, F major, and G major, just like “Doe, a Dear”. It has a pedagogical quality, though it is very musical, like this […]
Sega Melodies
The famous intro sound of the 16-bit Sega Genesis, which I assume is a choir of Japanese dudes with the most lovely singing voices in the world. What we have here is an interval of a minor third between two major chords: Eb Major to a C Major sung in parallel harmony. The chords appear […]
