The Quiet Girl

                                                           The Quiet Girl- The Distant Song Stuck in my Head                                                             Artist: The Quiet Girl                                                          Song: The Distant Song Stuck in My Head                                                         Album: Sample Studio Recording "Reflections"    This is the other one of my studio recordings that I have done so far with my new studio. It is an original song written and played by me, an instrumental song for the guitar. On this recording, I should have turned the volume up, but I did better on the editing.     I played this on a steel string guitar, fingerpicking the strings with my bare fingers.     About the song: years ago, I heard Bach's Prelude in D Minor on a CD, played on classical guitar. I didn't have this stuck in my head, but I did think about all the notes that made up the song and the way the gu

The Quiet Girl- Thoughtfulness   Artist: The Quiet Girl Song: Thoughtfulness Album: Sample Studio Recording "Reflections"          I have 2 studio recordings I have made now, as I wrote earlier. This is one of them. This is an original song I wrote called "Thoughtfulness", written for the hammered dulcimer and played by me. I am learning to use the studio well and it took forever for me to learn how to edit and export music, but I know these things well now. I am getting better and better at it, and I am better at it even now than I was when I made this recording, which was only about a month ago.    Recording in a studio is different from performing. Of course, you always have to practice to sound as good as possible, like if you were to perform in front of an audience. But when you are recording, if you make a mistake and it takes you 10 tries to get a part right, after you are done recording, you can keep the 10th try where you got it rig

   This is a version I did of another picture. The painting I did was done in acrylic.      © 2013, The Quiet Girl. All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying is punishable under Federal Law.

   This is the fourth dragon painting. It is acrylic. It is my version of Gustav Dore's painting of the Leviathan. I like the action of the angel with the sword and the Leviathan dragon coming up angrily out of the water.    This is the original artwork by Gustav Dore:    And this is the painting by me:    And the good....    ...And the evil.     I am also getting better at recording with my studio set. I have now learned how to edit songs and have 2 recordings that I have done! © 2013, The Quiet Girl. All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying is punishable under Federal Law.

   This is an original acrylic painting based on a photograph of a gargoyle on a building. It took a long time for me to get this to look this 3D, but it was worth the effort to try to paint the lights and darks of a sculpture. © 2013, The Quiet Girl. All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying is punishable under Federal Law.

   This is a song I wrote a year ago. It is an "electric" song that is played with synthesized instruments made by a computer. It was done entirely on a songwriting software called Musescore, which is made to put your songs into sheet music form, play them back to hear what they sound like on particular instruments, and print them. The real purpose of the playback is to hear a synthesized version of the instrument(s) playing the song. Of course, the software has synthetic versions of strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, guitar, piano, etc., and for instruments like these, I strictly believe in playing the real thing. But this software also has electronic instruments, and I thought it would be cool to mess around with those and write a song with them. For me, I didn't need a fancy synthesizer or elaborate equipment, just a computer, Musescore, and the electric sounds that make up this song.    I recorded this on a Flip video camera, converted the video to mp3, th