Song by Mike Slinn

Dappled Sunlight

Published 2025-08-15. Last modified 2025-08-26.

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About This Song

An experiment with intertwined piano and guitar riffs.

A 12-beat loop is played against an 3-beat arpeggio. This creates an interesting structure that a melody can weave through.

Audio Recordings

Raven Nostra and I collaborated to produce this version:


dappled_sunlight_2025-08-25.mp3

Twenty years earlier, I showed these intertwined piano and guitar melodies to Greg Blake, and he recorded me playing them. Greg and I collaborated on the piece, and he produced this version:


dappled_sunlight_2005-12-29.mp3

Change Log

2025-08-15 I migrated the song from Nuendo to MIDI and audio stems. Raven Nostra set up the Ableton Live session using the template that he had created for us previously and imported the MIDI. Raven and I collaborated on sound design. Raven mixed and mastered, and played drums on one track using my Roland VQD-106.

2005-12-29 Greg Blake and I used Nuendo to complete this piece to a certain point.

Musicians

You are welcome to perform and record this song at the speed you prefer and in the key you want.

This is copyrighted material. You can earn passive income by recording and performing this song. As it slowly becomes more popular, what is at first a trickle of royalties grows over time into something that is always providing for you.

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