Sing Me Back Home

Blog is moving to my studio website

2009-11-11T18:47:00.000-08:00

I'll be hosting my blog from my website from now on. You can get to it by visiting www.blueviewrecords.com

Thanks,
Scott

2009-10-15T19:41:00.000-07:00

Just bought a new touch!

Music Lessons

2009-05-06T06:31:00.000-07:00

Lesson Price: $15/half hour
Where: Riner,Va

5 slots available on Wednesday nights from 6:30-9pm. Children under 12 will require some initial parent instruction.

Course Outline:
Tuning, Stringing, & Using an A-440 fork
Balance & Tone Part 1
Technique: Hand Positions, Hammer Ons, Pull Offs, Slides, Harmonics, etc
Basic Chord Theory: Includes learning basic song structures
Timing: Metronome exercises using basic chord knowledge
Basic Scales-Major, Intervals, Arpeggio, and Minor Pentatonic
Balance and Tone Part 2
Melody & Improvisation: Playing scales and melodies over song structures
Dynamics: How to create that band sound you are looking for!

Other lessons available:
Beginner Mandolin, Beginner Bass (electric or upright), &
Home Recording Basics

Vist with WVTF Roanoke

2009-05-04T10:54:00.001-07:00

Abe and I were on WVTF in roanoke on Sunday's "Back to the Blueridge" show with Kinney & Seth. We had a great time and really enjoyed meeting Kinney and Seth. Those guys have done a tremendous job presenting quality music on the programming there and we were honored to be part of it. If you've made to here by way of listening to our show or otherwise, thanks for the wonderful reviews and support of our album so far. We are blessed beyond measure for being able to make this album and we look forward to getting started on the next one! This time it might be just me and Abe. You never know!
by for now!

CD release fun

2009-04-11T18:30:00.001-07:00

Thanks to all the folks who came out and bought our cd last night at cafe del sol. It was a success all the way around. We had a wonderful time and we also had the joy of introducing our friend, Kevin Jones, on vocals and bass. He is a great addition to what Abe and I are doing and we look forward to him helping develop us into more of a band sound. Thanks again for a really good time! Here's a few pics from the show!

Patrick & Goorskey on the air

2009-04-01T11:13:00.000-07:00

I just sent our album to 7 radio stations in Va! Hope they like it enough to give us a few plays!

Late Set at Del Sol and jam at FCS!

2009-03-30T09:28:00.000-07:00

This weekend Abe and I will be going to fiddle and banjo club. This is Abe's first and my first trip in 5 or 6 years. Abe and I are going to to play a set of music with our good friend Henry Boitnott who will be joining us for part of our set. We are gonna have a good sit down jam session right up on stage. It's gonna be a fun time. I can't wait to go! Thanks to everybody that bought a CD and is here to check out the blog. I'll be posting more as we play more!
Here are some recent pics courtesy of Dale Goorskey! Enjoy and God Bless!
http://roanokefiddleandbanjoclub.com/Schedule.html

Roanoke Times features patrick & goorskey today!

2009-03-19T06:17:00.001-07:00

CHRISTIANSBURG -- Three years ago, musicians Scott Patrick and Abe Goorskey started playing together and learning each other's style of music.

Patrick, a guitarist, and Goorskey, a guitarist and mandolin player, both play bluegrass differently.

"We started playing and had a good connection from the start," Goorskey said. "I saw it as an opportunity to learn from him because he's more of a straight-ahead bluegrass player and I was playing in more of a progressive bluegrass band at the time."

The duo met about five years ago at the Floyd Country Store's weekly music jamborees. Patrick's grandfather Shelby Vest gave Goorskey's mother, Debra Gallagher, fiddle lessons.

"Our families knew each other from jamboree, and we always wanted to pick together," Goorskey said.

So the pair started playing music together on nights and weekends after work. Goorskey works at Phoenix Hardwoods in Floyd, and Patrick is an engineer at Luna Innovations in Blacksburg.

The two started arranging songs, playing shows together locally and writing pieces.

That led to the recording of a CD called "Back When I Had You," which is scheduled to be available April 10 on Blueview Records, Patrick's Riner-based recording studio.

Patrick started Blueview Records out of his basement in 2005 with the intention of giving local artists more exposure.

He said he worked on nights and weekends when he wasn't playing music, teaching himself how to record and writing songs.

"I worked for a couple of years until I felt like I had something strong enough to present," Patrick said. "Then I thought, Abe has always been there. He does more instrumental and I cover more vocal, traditional tunes, so we complement each other really well."

"Back When I Had You" contains four of Goorskey's instrumental pieces, four of Patrick's vocals and two traditional bluegrass songs.

"It was a lot of fun to make because we're really working on developing a sound," Goorskey said. "Scott and I playing together have a really unique dialogue between us that you can really hear on the album that really meshes well as musicians."

Heather Berry added vocals on three songs on the CD, "Sawin' On a String," "Fade Away" and "Back When I Had You."

"What's great about their CD is they've got a little of everything -- traditional bluegrass, contemporary styles, folksy sounding stuff," Berry said. "It's a little something for everybody."

Patrick said he would like to expand Blueview Records but still keep it as a side business featuring local singer/songwriters, acoustic performers and maybe some jazz or piano recordings. He also does sound work for local films, along with playing music and working with West Virginia bluegrass band Black Diamond, to supplement the studio's income.

"I do want to bring people in, but I would have to be very selective," Patrick said. "I had some advice early on: Always treat your music like a business and you'll never make a bad decision."

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/198203

Patrick & Goorskey CD pre-release copies available

2009-03-18T09:26:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! If you are visiting for the first time b/c you bought a cd and saw the link to the blog then welcome! Thanks to EVERYBODY so far who has purchased a CD. We are very blessed to have sold over 30 copies since friday and we haven't even had a gig yet! Abe and I are so excited to have something to sell when we go out and play. We have had SO much help in getting here and appreciate everyone that has done so! We can't wait to start gigging regularly once again. We have a new bass player now and he's currently working on material with us and he will be out at the CD release at cafe del sol in Floyd, Va on April 10 at 7pm. His name is Kevin Jones. He is a VERY long time friend of mine and we are really excited to be working together for a common musical cause! Hope to see some familiar faces there and hope to sell a few more cd's up at the coffee shop in April! Please write or come see us live and let us know what you think about our CD. more news tommorow!
Scott

Updated Blog

2009-02-11T09:58:00.000-08:00

Ok. Yeah I shouldn't have deleted last years blogs but I did anyway. A new year for me warrants deleting last years blogs! how do you like that!

New CD is being tracked right now!

2009-02-11T09:50:00.000-08:00

I'm very excited to say that tracking is almost complete on the new album I've spent the last two years working on.

Not to brag but I am the producer, arranger, guitarist, writer, for 8 of the 12 songs on the album. This album will be produced by my record company, Blueview Records!
Look for it very soon! I'm real happy with how it is turning out.
I'll update again once tracking is complete!
S~

My new guitar!

2009-01-08T18:37:00.000-08:00

Here is what the new guitar looks like! I'll post some real pictures of it soon.
I'm extremely happy with the sound of this guitar. The best guitar I've ever owned!

Welcome to Sing Me Back Home!

2008-11-24T19:22:00.001-08:00

Ok. I started this blog called Sing Me Back Home! I've been told this is a good way to connect to people so I'm taking that advice! I'm trying as best I can to live a simple life always putting God, Family, Work, & Play in that order! It's challenging at times but very rewarding as well! I hope you enjoy what I have to share.

Is it me or do many of you have too much on your plate as well? God, Family, Work, Music, & Recording Business for me. After all of that I'm pretty much exhausted all of the time. I'd love to find some margin in my life but it's pretty busy right now! I spent the last few days working my day job as a engineering technician, building my kids a swingset, and performing in a battle of the bands competition. That leaves me here on a Monday night very tired and wondering if I've got anything left to give. I've spent many tired hours in my studio late at night trying to record, track by track, a solo album that is 2years in the running. I'm praying that January will be the month that it is complete and I can't wait to get there! Well. That's all for tonight. I'm going to bed!