Dan Cobb's Virtual CD

Here are some recordings I've made of myself playing various instruments and types of music. My "CD" is a work in progress, but feel free to download files at any time. The pieces all involve flatpicking styles of one sort or another on acoustic and electric guitar, tenor banjo, mandolin, electric bass, irish bouzouki, etc. (Drum tracks are courtesy of Band-in-a-Box.) All files are 128K MP3.

Flight of the Bumblebee (1.1Mb) An arrangement of the Rimsky-Korsakov classic for three guitars. No, I didn't play all three simultaneously.
Genericity (2.6Mb) A jazz tune that I composed. It took me all of 10 minutes! The idea was to come up with melody and chords to capture completely generic swing music (hence the name). The recording is largely improvization on guitar and bass.
Grandfather's Clock/Home Sweet Home (2.5Mb) An arrangement of two traditional American songs for mandolin and guitar with lots of cross-picking on mandolin.
Sean Sa Ceo/The Glen Road to Carrick (2.5Mb) A pair of Irish reels played on tenor banjo.
Partita No. 2 in D Minor (2.3Mb) An excerpt from a piece written by J. S. Bach for solo violin (played on mandolin).
Hailstones for Rain (2.5Mb) A chorus from "Israel in Egypt" by Handel. I sang this in the bass section of a local choir. (Listen for our solo about 2/3 of the way through!)
The Boyne Hunt/Come West along the Road (2.0Mb) I teamed up with a fiddler friend, Dave Papazian, who lives in Cape Breton, to play these two reels.
Jigs (3.4Mb) Three jigs played on fiddle (Dave Papazian), accordion (Pat Cloonan), and mandolin (me, of course).
Rathlin Island (3.4Mb) An Irish air (song) played solo on guitar. This is a "fusion" experiment, combining Irish music and jazz.

MORE TO COME ...