This is the easiest 18 cents that anyone ever made. As the proud co-owner of the copyright of this song, I’ve tasted a drop of the adrenaline a con man must feel after he’s bid his mark goodbye.

If there was ever a fear that alien hostiles existed and were looking to invade Earth, I would nominate this video as a pacifier to be beamed out into space. It truly sends the message that there’s not much going on here, and it’s probably just as well to move along.

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Continue reading Get Help on Youtube #2. Need Video Ideas!...]]> http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2011/10/get-help-on-youtube-2-need-video-ideas/feed/ 0 http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2011/01/spf-45-strikes-again/ http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2011/01/spf-45-strikes-again/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:07:58 +0000 tony http://www.gethelpmusic.com/?p=150 The powerhouse of our Incidental Music album has found itself once again on the telly, in a commercial for the NBA’s charity, NBA Cares. Enjoy!

This elates those of us at Get Help HQ for several reasons. When Get Help originally kicked off, the idea was to sell jingles and cash in. In pursuit of that end, we named all of our songs after Mexican menu items, a market slam-dunk. It was partly self-effacing, partly laziness, [...]

Continue reading SPF 45 (Get Help Gets on TV)...]]> http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2009/10/get-help-gets-on-tv/feed/ 2 We're proud to announce that two of our songs, Carne Asada (available on our album) and SPF 45 (available above) will be on the TV! Both songs will appear in the PBS series Gourmet's Adventures with Ruth, episodes "Seattle" (airing this weekend! We're proud to announce that two of our songs, Carne Asada (available on our album) and SPF 45 (available above) will be on the TV! Both songs will appear in the PBS series Gourmet's Adventures with Ruth, episodes "Seattle" (airing this weekend!) and "Mexico". This elates those of us at Get Help HQ for several reasons. When Get Help originally kicked off, the idea was to sell jingles and cash in. In pursuit of that end, we named all of our songs after Mexican menu items, a market slam-dunk. It was partly self-effacing, partly laziness, but still, we figured at best we'd get picked up by Dr. Scholl's Odor Eaters or this generation's Pet Rock. So a Conde Naste show about food on PBS...? Wow. We couldn't have asked for more. We're like six degrees of sep from Bill Moyers! We're bona fide! This is the first posting of SPF 45, so listen to it here, and then listen for it on Gourmet Adventures this weekend. You can find local listings here. Get Help no 2:12 http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2009/01/warm-grey-submerged/ http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2009/01/warm-grey-submerged/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:31:23 +0000 tony http://www.midriffrecords.com/gethelp/?p=81 Perhaps interesting only to me: one of my new year’s resolutions was to organize and compile all the random Garageband tracks I have, born from moments of inspiration, appointed nights of impassioned hackery, and the all-time favorite: drunken, sloven doodling. My filing system is horrid, usually a series of numbers to indicate the date — from which I have discovered my own mild numeric dyslexia — or a “keyword” in the title that I’m sure meant something at the time. As I offload more and more of my brain into my imac, google account, cell phone, and what have [...]

Continue reading Warm Gray, Submerged...]]> http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2009/01/warm-grey-submerged/feed/ 0 Perhaps interesting only to me: one of my new year's resolutions was to organize and compile all the random Garageband tracks I have, born from moments of inspiration, appointed nights of impassioned hackery, and the all-time favorite: drunken, Perhaps interesting only to me: one of my new year's resolutions was to organize and compile all the random Garageband tracks I have, born from moments of inspiration, appointed nights of impassioned hackery, and the all-time favorite: drunken, sloven doodling. My filing system is horrid, usually a series of numbers to indicate the date — from which I have discovered my own mild numeric dyslexia — or a "keyword" in the title that I'm sure meant something at the time. As I offload more and more of my brain into my imac, google account, cell phone, and what have you, it is striking how much one can completely forget. Case in point, this ditty right here. After compiling my list of tracks, I found this one, with a working title of "xmas song". I spent about four days working on it in December 2006, at my parent's house in my old bedroom with my laptop and my father's guitar. I remember my utter frustration that for all my efforts and self-pity, it went absolutely no where. I believe this was the unconscious genesis for another instrumental born of frustration that was to emerge some time later. Either way, I promptly forgot about the "xmas song" completely, much like a squirrel burying a chestnut, until miraculously unearthing it a few days ago. Upon giving it a new listen circa New Years Eve 2008, whaddya know: it ain't that bad. It goes somewhere, and it takes its time. It mows the lawn, it has a beer. Over repeated listens on my commute I realized it also works well with most ambient noise one might encounter without noise-canceling headphones: conversation, train whistles, car whooshes, etc. A bit John Cage-esque, I guess, but my attempt to load it down with sound effects was a non-starter. It works better in the natural world, amidst the noise, man-made or otherwise. Give it a go, won't you, faithful reader? Happy New Year. Get Help no http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2008/12/reminders/ http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2008/12/reminders/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:12:54 +0000 tony http://www.midriffrecords.com/gethelp/?p=79 As usual, when you start something with a minimal amount of thought and have no idea as to how it will end, it takes on a life of its own, sinks its claws into you, and won’t let you walk away. This one started as a Yamaha experiment, just cycling through the sound dial and learning what this thing can do, and four days later I’m all looping and panning and eq’ing until two in the morning. It would have been very easy to loops three chords, mess with some knobs, and call it night. But once you save [...]

Continue reading Reminders...]]> http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2008/12/reminders/feed/ 1 As usual, when you start something with a minimal amount of thought and have no idea as to how it will end, it takes on a life of its own, sinks its claws into you, and won't let you walk away. This one started as a Yamaha experiment, As usual, when you start something with a minimal amount of thought and have no idea as to how it will end, it takes on a life of its own, sinks its claws into you, and won't let you walk away. This one started as a Yamaha experiment, just cycling through the sound dial and learning what this thing can do, and four days later I'm all looping and panning and eq'ing until two in the morning. It would have been very easy to loops three chords, mess with some knobs, and call it night. But once you save a life, you're responsible for it. Invest enough time in something, say like a three-legged kitten, for instance, and all of a sudden you have to feed it, keep it warm, and make sure it gets into college. So it goes with these open-ended doodlings. You can't just drop it off at a Nebraska hospital when it starts needing solid food. If you need to know, it's a lullaby with a time-traveling theme. We have a painting from the MOMA that pops up on our random header, a little girl running from a bunch of animals, the name of which currently eludes me. Anyway, I like to think that they're the band on this one. But, if you don't want to think too much about it, then that's fine also. Forget what I just said and let it relax you right off the road. As I said to Mike before he heard it: "It's either very soothing, or extremely annoying. It depends on what mood you're in." He said, "Then it's probably extremely annoying." Tell me about it. Get Help no http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2008/04/tumbleweeds/ http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2008/04/tumbleweeds/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:47:49 +0000 tony http://www.midriffrecords.com/gethelp/?p=48 Another product of goofing off at the Yamaha station with a recently purchased RC-20 XL (now with loop fade-out!). This was mostly done using a finger bass setting, and overlaying the same part multiple times through an RV-3 pedal, which generated that weird scratchy sound I find so spooky. Mike swears he’s going to put words to this one and when he does, he can change the name. I don’t think it’s finished by a long shot, but still, people seem to like it. Then again, those people are my friends. Anyways, along with Early Hours this song [...]

Continue reading Tumbleweeds...]]> http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2008/04/tumbleweeds/feed/ 0 Another product of goofing off at the Yamaha station with a recently purchased RC-20 XL (now with loop fade-out!). This was mostly done using a finger bass setting, and overlaying the same part multiple times through an RV-3 pedal, Another product of goofing off at the Yamaha station with a recently purchased RC-20 XL (now with loop fade-out!). This was mostly done using a finger bass setting, and overlaying the same part multiple times through an RV-3 pedal, which generated that weird scratchy sound I find so spooky. Mike swears he's going to put words to this one and when he does, he can change the name. I don't think it's finished by a long shot, but still, people seem to like it. Then again, those people are my friends. Anyways, along with Early Hours this song reminds me of the end of an era, my last days as an NYC resident, sitting around in the back yard of 51st street drinking Modelo Especial, watching birdfeeders. Get Help no http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2008/03/the-good-green-earth/ http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2008/03/the-good-green-earth/#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:38:21 +0000 tony http://www.midriffrecords.com/gethelp/archives/47 Clearing out the backlog with a good old instrumental. After moving to Jersey, I went through some withdrawal from being separated from the 500-channel Yamaha. I compensated by learning Garageband’s software instruments, the musical typing feature, and how to edit its digital “notes”, which increases the amount of potential instrumentation by at least, oh, six hundred bazillion. I spent a few weeks getting nowhere with all the beeps and blips and hip-hop beats and synthy violins, but from it comes some self-made morning-commute music, if nothing else. Only time will tell. To some people, synthy violins are cheesy. [...]

Continue reading The Good Green Earth...]]> http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2008/03/the-good-green-earth/feed/ 0 Clearing out the backlog with a good old instrumental. After moving to Jersey, I went through some withdrawal from being separated from the 500-channel Yamaha. I compensated by learning Garageband's software instruments, the musical typing feature, Clearing out the backlog with a good old instrumental. After moving to Jersey, I went through some withdrawal from being separated from the 500-channel Yamaha. I compensated by learning Garageband's software instruments, the musical typing feature, and how to edit its digital "notes", which increases the amount of potential instrumentation by at least, oh, six hundred bazillion. I spent a few weeks getting nowhere with all the beeps and blips and hip-hop beats and synthy violins, but from it comes some self-made morning-commute music, if nothing else. Only time will tell. To some people, synthy violins are cheesy. To others, uplifting. One day those people will meet and go to war. I'll be on the Light Rail to Remco, headphones on, listening to this song. Get Help no http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2007/04/student-of-philosophy/ http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2007/04/student-of-philosophy/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:45:09 +0000 tony http://www.midriffrecords.com/gethelp/archives/34 Another instrumental. I moved into my friend Damon’s place in Sunset Park for a while this year, and as a result gained access to his Yamaha DGX220. I think I became as much a piece of furniture as the keyboard itself for a while there. There are about 500+ sounds on that thing, and I am pretty sure that when I moved out I had only five or six more to go.

The strings and the beats are samples from Garageband. Everything else is from the trusty DGX220. The main inspiration was to have something easy on the ears [...]

Continue reading Student of Philosophy...]]> http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2007/04/student-of-philosophy/feed/ 0 Another instrumental. I moved into my friend Damon's place in Sunset Park for a while this year, and as a result gained access to his Yamaha DGX220. I think I became as much a piece of furniture as the keyboard itself for a while there. Another instrumental. I moved into my friend Damon's place in Sunset Park for a while this year, and as a result gained access to his Yamaha DGX220. I think I became as much a piece of furniture as the keyboard itself for a while there. There are about 500+ sounds on that thing, and I am pretty sure that when I moved out I had only five or six more to go. The strings and the beats are samples from Garageband. Everything else is from the trusty DGX220. The main inspiration was to have something easy on the ears for the morning subway ride into the city. Hopefully someday I will recut the strings with the ole DGX. Who knows. Either way, I must be honest here, it's so choice. If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend picking one up. Get Help no http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2007/02/cool-gray-oscillating-sequence/ http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2007/02/cool-gray-oscillating-sequence/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:48:48 +0000 tony http://www.midriffrecords.com/gethelp/archives/31 In the midst of frustration with a long-premeditated idea that wasn’t coming together, I recorded a D to G transition with a hip-hop drum beat, just to hear something pleasant to my ears. Lo and behold, two weeks and about 40 tracks later, numerous lessons have been learned, about songwriting, computers, panning, and yes, myself. Like we are constantly reminded that the foremost predator on earth is … man … I find it pounded into me time and again that the most spontaneous and least conceptualized ideas usually lead to the most fulfilling results. Also, drop-D is slowly becoming [...]

Continue reading Cool Gray Oscillating Sequence...]]> http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2007/02/cool-gray-oscillating-sequence/feed/ 0 In the midst of frustration with a long-premeditated idea that wasn't coming together, I recorded a D to G transition with a hip-hop drum beat, just to hear something pleasant to my ears. Lo and behold, two weeks and about 40 tracks later, In the midst of frustration with a long-premeditated idea that wasn't coming together, I recorded a D to G transition with a hip-hop drum beat, just to hear something pleasant to my ears. Lo and behold, two weeks and about 40 tracks later, numerous lessons have been learned, about songwriting, computers, panning, and yes, myself. Like we are constantly reminded that the foremost predator on earth is ... man ... I find it pounded into me time and again that the most spontaneous and least conceptualized ideas usually lead to the most fulfilling results. Also, drop-D is slowly becoming my Water Lilies, if it hasn't already. It never hurts to think too little about something. Recent update: this track has been used (in edited form) as the soundtrack to a certain artist's video reel. Click on the big 3D image to see it in use. Get Help no http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2006/06/salsa-verde/ http://www.gethelpmusic.com/2006/06/salsa-verde/#comments Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:06:08 +0000 tony http://www.midriffrecords.com/gethelp/?p=25 And with a clink of beer bottles in the East Village, Get Help was born. Our initial intent was to craft gossamer wisps of irresistable dittiness for commercial licensing. So of course our first composition together must have a refrigerator compressor as a backing track. Glastender still has yet to call. And we were titling all of our songs after Mexican menu items at the time. As we both evidently order the same thing every time we go to Taco Bell, our naming practice died out soon enough.