Leaving the Hospital; I'm Going Home (Keyboard Tab)

So I thought it might be cool to try and put up an explanation of how to play Leaving the Hospital on the piano or keyboards. This isn't sheet music but more of a guitar tab type deal arranged for the keyboard. There is an explanation of how to read it in the file but basically the octave is on the left hand side and the notes are tabbed out just like a guitar tab.

On the studio recording of this song there are some techniques we used that you may or may not be able to reproduce which made this a bit difficult to tab out but if you listen to the song you should be able to get the gist of it. One of these things is during the bridge... on the studio recording we ran the keyboards through two separate delay pedals, much like what you hear on the guitars on some of our songs, such A Flurry of Red and Green and the end of Kiss Kiss. So the tab is meant to sound similar to the recording, without using all of these effects. Like I said you can listen to the song and come up with something that should sound very similar, maybe even better!

You can download the .rtf file here: Leaving the Hospital; I'm Going Home (Keyboard Tab)

Oh, and we'd love to hear your thoughts on this. If people like this then maybe we will add other songs. Also if anyone spots any glaring mistakes let us know in the replies so we can fix it. This was very complicated to put together so we were bound to make some mistakes!

New T-Shirts Coming Soon!

Many of you have been asking us for a long time, "When are we getting some new shirts?!" Undoubtedly either your old gas mask tee is word the eff out OR you didn't get a chance to grab one of only 20 some-odd TD&TS T-Shirts ever made. Well, we truly apologize for the wait.

We have looked into a lot of different methods for making affordable T-shirts available to you guys. There are some company's that would allow us to upload a design and then they would sell print and ship the shirt to you. But we have always been very picky about what merch we make available and the quality of stuff we give to you guys. The thought of you guys buying shirts that we have never seen before and the possibility of them being a piece of crap, well... sucks! There is something about us being able to order the merch ourselves, taking the orders directly from you guys, and shipping them out to you ourselves that really appeals to us. And until it gets to a point that we can no longer handle the amount of orders ourself, we want to continue to do this! And trust us, we get no where near that many orders yet! :) With that being said the overhead costs for high quality T-shirts can be pretty high! And so far the printing of albums has come before T-shirts in our budget.

But we are happy to say that we have checked out our iTunes royalties from the past few months, and thanks to all of you who either bought our cds or downloaded the album on iTunes, we have enough cash to cover the overhead costs for another round of shirts!

Alright enough with the boring stuff, lets get to the design! The new design was designed by Nick and was designed with the lovely females as well as the dudes in mind. We understand that the gas-mask theme... was pretty dude-ish. I think that both the ladies and the fellas will be happy to sport the new design, and plus, it features the "f-word"!

Rep The Dreamer and the Sleeper and piss your grandparents off at the same time!!! Juuust kidding Grandma. Below is a draft of the design we would like to use for the new shirts.

Ideally we would like to print these on some sort of American Apparel ladies tee, as well as a plain old American-App unisex tee. Some of the girls have been complaining that the plain old Haines beefy tees don't fit well, and we want you to be feeling good as well as looking good! We are not POSITIVE that we'll be able to do this because of the costs but it is definitely something we would love to do.

Also another thought we have had is to do a pre-sale of the shirts where we will sell them relatively cheap (at little or no-profit to us, all we really ask is that we break even). Stay tuned for info on this!

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the new design! We know, we know, this is big deal over one little T-shirt, but as you may know we don't do this too often so we want to let you know what's up!

These Inevitable Insanities (Guitar Tab)

Here's yet another guitar tab for yall. Here is These Inevitable Insanities from our album Autumn in the Evening. Have fun!

Download the .rtf file here: These Inevitable Insanities Guitar Tab

Oh, Adrienne (Guitar Tab)

One last one for today! Here is the guitar tab for Oh, Adrienne from the Oh, Is for Overture EP.

Download the tab as an .rtf file here: Oh, Adrienne Guitar Tab

A Flurry of Red and Green (Guitar Tab)

Here is a guitar tab for our song A Flurry of Red and Green off of our Holiday EP released in 2007. If you don't have the EP you can pick it up on itunes here: The Holiday EP on iTunes

Download the tab as an .rtf file here: A Flurry of Red and Green Guitar Tab

Halloween (Guitar Tab)

Here is the guitar tab for our song Halloween from our album Autumn in the Evening! Be sure to stretch the window of your text edit program or web browser to allow the lines enough space or else it will look wacky!

Download the .rtf file here: Halloween Guitar Tab

Rules in a Knife Fight (Guitar Tab)

Some more guitar tabs for you! This one is a really fun song to play and is really simple!

Download the .rtf file here: Rules in a Knife Fight Guitar Tab

Take a look at how we have been playing this song live here! Rules in a Knife Fight Live on YouTube

The Beginning and the End (Guitar Tab)

Here is a guitar tablature for the acoustic guitar parts in The Beginning and the End. Enjoy!

Download the .rtf file here: The Beginning and the End Guitar Tab

Mistakes! (Guitar Tab)

Here is another guitar tab for you. Here are the chords to play our song Mistakes! from the album Autumn in the Evening.

Here is the .rtf file: Mistakes! Guitar Tab

The Psychologist (Guitar Tab)

Here is another guitar tab for our song The Psychologist from our album Autumn in the Evening. Have Fun!

Click here to download the .rtf file: The Psychologist Guitar Tab

Seventy-Six (Guitar Tab)

Here is a guitar tab for the song Seventy-Six off of our album Fireworks. This is a pretty easy song once you get the hang of it and is really fun to play! Enjoy!

You can download the .rtf file here: Seventy-Six Guitar Tab

Ashes Ashes (Guitar Tab)

Here is the guitar tab to our song Ashes Ashes from the album Fireworks. This one comes courtesy of Easton.

Download the .rtf file here: Ashes Ashes Guitar Tab

Nick's Blog #005: The Song that Got Left Behind

Hello again!

So I was reading Easton's blog post from the other day about unreleased songs and what we plan to do with them. Since we finished Fireworks we have talked about what to do with the 20 to 30 some-odd songs that we wrote and demoed but didn't put on either album. Easton tends to write quicker and more often than me so he has quite a few more but I have a few from each album session that I think are pretty good and I'd love to have everyone hear.

I have one in particular that I wrote for Autumn in the Evening that was probably my favorite that I wrote for the album but somehow it just didn't fit anywhere on the final tracklisting. It was actually called "Autumn in the Evening" but now that it's not on that album... who knows what it will be called or where it will end up! I'd really like to see it end up on a future album so it gets a proper release, but then again had a song just like that from Fireworks called Los Angeles, and well... that one is still sitting on my hard drive so I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

Anyways here are the lyrics to the song. They were probably the most personal lyrics I wrote for any song on Autumn in the Evening further asking the question... why the fuuu isn't in on the album?!?!

Autumn in the Evening

in the backyard, on the water

i'm floating... i'm sleeping... i'm waiting

are you calling? are you calling me now?

oh oh whoah

you're always humming,

you were always humming the songs

and there was "darkness"

and "control" and now "i can tell..."

oh that winter's on the rise

hoist the old white flag tonight

we were so young

just a crush on a washing machine

and on a tile floor

i was bleeding, but you kept me breathing

back when we believed in love

oh did it catch you by surprise

and winter's on the rise

hoist the old white flag tonight

and this is autumn in the evening

oh, and winter's on the rise

Nick's Blog #004: What we have been up to

What's up friends, just wanted to come on here and say hello! We fully plan on utilizing this webpage more in the future but as you may have noticed it has been a bit slow as far as posts and updates are concerned.

One of our main goals with The Dreamer and the Sleeper has been to keep things as stress free as possible so we can continue to LOVE what we are doing for a long time to come. Sometimes this means doing some unconventional things as far as... I guess you could call it, the music "business" aspect of the band is concerned. It is probably considered strange by most to record a second album, release it, and immediately drop off the face of the planet for a few weeks haha.

But this is sort of what we have done. It may not have been the best thing to do as far as getting word out about the album. But after writing, recording, mixing, mastering, self releasing, and just working on an album in general for over a year and a half it has been a great break for us to sort of put the album out of our minds for a few weeks.

As well as being band mates we are also great friends, so it has been really cool to just kick it and not have to worry about the recording we needed to get done that day. We can go down to the bar with our friends and not spend the entire time talking about the bridge of a certain song or the drum tracks on another song... And I'm sure our friends greatly appreciate that! We can go out and just drink and be merry as friends!

The time away from Autumn in the Evening has also given us some time to start jamming with our good friend Ray Junior on our live show. Ray is an amazing bassist and we have worked on projects musically with him since long before D&S so it has been awesome sort of relearning the songs with him for the live show. They sound 1,000 times better with him than they ever did before!

With all this being said I think both me and Easton's brains are starting to itch again. I personally have purposely not worked on any songs since we released AitE because I wanted a fresh look at them when I came back to them, and at this point these songs are practically burning a hole in my head! The break has left us both super excited to continue to work on 'Autumn in the Evening' songs to improve them live, rework the 'Fireworks' songs with Ray Ray's RIDICULOUS bass lines to play live, and probably our favorite thing to do: work on writing and demoing new songs for whatever may come in the future. We will begin to give the promotion for Autumn in the Evening the time it deserves as well, as we haven't sent out any press kit's with new songs on them yet!

Over the past weekend we actually started working on something new that we are having a lot of fun with. For now I will keep what this little project is quiet simply because it is in the very beginning stages and if it doesn't come to fruition I would hate for people to be disappointed! But if this project turns out right you will be getting something super fun as a surprise really soon!!!

So be on the look out in the near future! This website should begin to have more and more updates in the coming weeks and months!!!

Peace yall

Easton's Blog #003: Old, old lyrics

Hello hello everyone! Been a few days since Nick and I had posted something for you kids. I was just listening to some really old demos, and by old I mean 2004-2006. Here's some lyrics to the outro of a song called "Declaratives," which was originally going to be the first track on Fireworks.

...a toast and i try to talk
of life like a puzzle box
we will ache to have the pieces back
back in their cardboard box
safer than table tops
dislocate from all the other cuts

and that is my state of mind
to stay alive all the time
to never start, all in my cardboard box
so don't sit around and wait,
to catch me in quadra-shape
with some luck, you'll only almost win

missing a piece or two
surely you'll come unglued
so i'll tuck her in my cardboard box
and maybe i won't get high
and maybe time won't fly by...

Nick and I have threatened for quite some time to rock a B-Sides album; we have so many darn demos but it's just so hard to go back and work on "old" stuff, no matter how much we like it. Nonetheless, I'd put my money on you all hearing some legit versions of some older songs sometime in the near future. In the meantime, we have been working as best as we can on tabs for all our songs. So far, "Ashes Ashes", "The Civil War", "Mistakes!", "Across the Water", and "The Psychologist" have been tabbed out. It's our intention to tab out pretty much all the songs we play, so you should have some annoying, ridiculous chords for your fingers to get used to upcoming.

Happy July to all!