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All music and noises © Copyright Paul A. Williams aka Elwood Herring - Please read these notes before downloading
NOTE ON PLAYING MIDI FILES: All my MIDI works are meant to be played using the standard Microsoft GS Wavetable. Usage of any other wavetable will give unintended results. By all means experiment if you have the capability, but please be aware that what you end up with will not be what I intended!
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| Sketches | MIDI | Mins | Description & comments |
 | Early solo guitar pieces and moody songs from the late 70's - the earliest stuff I still acknowledge as being half-way decent. Download the whole albumwrapped album free from MegaUpload. | ||
| Llamedos |  | 3:15 | A four-track guitar instrumental. This was my first ever attempt at multi-tracking. The trouble with instrumentals is, what on earth do you call them? I just jot down the first thing that comes into my head, in this case the name-plate on a house I spotted the week before. Good job it wasn't the one I saw recently - "Far Corfe"! |
| Pretty Boy | 3:35 | The lyrics to this one were written by Dave Lewis, a friend who used to write hundreds of song lyrics but couldn't write music, so we collaborated on this song and a couple of others which were never recorded. I lost touch with him back in the 70's - no idea where he is now. | |
| Charmaine | 3:35 | Not the well-known song of the same name, but my own overly-sentimental teenage love song. Not my best by any means, but some people like it. | |
| A breath of smog | 4:45 | A nice simple guitar solo. This had lyrics added, and became "Circle Round the Sun". I remember I worked on this piece for weeks, and thought it was really clever at the time. | Wednesday's Child | 3:50 | Actually I was born on a Sunday, so it's not autobiographical. Rhythm machine played by my brother Colin. |
| Don't Drink the Water | 3:05 | Why not - what's wrong with it? Don't ask me, I haven't a clue what it means. Don't believe a word of it, it's all lies. | |
| Sketches | 4:53 | Basically a poem-song. Something to do with dreams, I think. Pity I didn't know what "teutonic" meant at the time. The word I actually wanted was "Titanic". | |
| Real Flute Flavour | 1:57 | A short instrumental with multi-tracked tin whistles and guitars. | |
| Appassionata | 5:15 | A heartfelt lament on the loss of my first ever girlfriend. | |
| Lost Without You | 3:53 | Ignore this one - another song for an ex-girlfriend and one of my earliest songs. Absolutely awful. As for the girl... long story. | |
| September Sunshine | |
4:10 | Another guitar instrumental, all done with simple root-position chords. Well it was September, and the sun was shining, so that's what it ended up being called. I've recently made a MIDI file of this - try it! |
| Break | 5:07 | A laid-back bluesy piece, where I multi-tracked myself humming and pratting about in the background. Plus an accidental but perfectly-timed burp! | |
| Tribute to Mike Oldfield | 1:08 | A multi-tracked rendition of the sailor's Hornpipe. | |
| Life Cycle | 3:40 | My favourite of all these songs. If you play nothing else, please play this one. A farewell lament to a woman, a country and a life in three nostalgic verses. This is also included on the Red Herring CD. Can you spot the famous tune which I pinched the chord sequence from? |
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