I'm Rob Birdwell - thanks for visiting! Explore my music, videos, projects, arrangements & articles. Contact me anytime! My latest release is "Quietly" and available on all major streaming platforms.
New Music Alert: ♫🎺The Adventures of Sam and Caw: Winter Is Coming🎹🎤
I'm Rob Birdwell - thanks for visiting! Explore my music, videos, projects, arrangements & articles. Contact me anytime! My latest release is "Quietly" and available on all major streaming platforms.
Quietly contains nine songs written, performed, and produced by Rob Birdwell.
The following is an excerpt from the second track, Punkie and the Spitfires.
It's a song about a three-piece band - perhaps the ultimate band - who save the world!
she was a young woman living in dystopian times
fighting "The Forces" any way that she could...
Rob Birdwell's arrangement of Feeling Good for Halie Loren and her band. Words and Music by Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse. Featuring the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra, Halie Loren (vocals), Matt Treder (piano), Mark Schneider (bass), Bill Marsh (guitar), Brian West (drums), Rob Birdwell (arranger/conductor). Audio engineering/recording by George Relles and Diana Robson.
LMNO perform Memories of Senegal live for a Funk in the Forest concert. Featuring Rob Birdwell (trumpet/keys), Nick Rivard (guitar), Page Hundemer (bass), and Brian Bucolo (drums)
I've always been interested in ways to express ideas and emotions through music. As a kid I would write my own lyrics to popular songs. As I learned to play trumpet I would create my own melodies. As I became interested in singing I began to learn more about chord progressions. By the time I was in college I started to get more serious about trying to compose and arrange - turns out it was hard! I attended the Grove School of Music and Dick Grove's teachings would provide me with a solid foundation and I'm still building upon that and continue to learn with every new song, composition or arrangement.
I recently got the #Roland #TR-6S drum machine and really like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VK027fKUZA&t=297s
In this video I (clumsily) demonstrate how to play it from an #MPCOne to create MIDI sequences.
I have more to learn - it's nice to have more percussion options and the TR-6S is a nice fit for my setup.
The Adventures of Sam and Caw
Episode 1 - Winter Is Coming
https://youtu.be/QyR2m7zHdvE
Here's the debut episode with a new one in production and coming early 2024!
#music #storytelling #drama #songs #animals #squirrel #crow #dog #cat #TheAdventuresOfSamAndCaw
Where Did Those Yesterdays Go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uJKNsJFFfw
Tribute to #WadeMarsten.
#BirdFromMars #TwoVoices #Musician #LosAngeles #Ukulele #RobBirdwell #Flugelhorn
Walking on Air - acoustic uke/vocal performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWgqHCp92eU
Music and lyrics by Rob Birdwell
#Ukulele #TheAdventuresOfSamAndCaw
"Punkie and The Spitfires"
https://youtu.be/XYoVFigzn5Q
This song was from my "Quietly" CD release of 2021. It was one of the few first songs I wrote (mostly) on #Ukulele. It's a story song - lots of lyrics! I have some ideas for how to perform it live, but we'll see!